VIRGINIA KRAVARIOTI OLY, BECOMES A GLSA SUPPORTER
Greece 12.02.2020. The Greek Lifesaving Sports Association proudly announces the inclusion of the Olympic Winner Virginia Kravarioti in the team of the GLSA Supporters.
Virginia Kravarioti said about her appointment: "Greece is a country with a large coastline
that cannot and is not fully safe. As athlete I have come across dangerous
situations at sea and witnessed stories of sorrow. Surely there is an urgent
need for water safety education. Dr. Stathis Avramidis taught me lifeguarding
and lifesaving sport in Athens University. The academic preparation of dozens
physical educators each year in the methods of how to rescue and teach the
public through Simulated Emergency Response Competitions was enlightening.
Education should be fun. Where traditional methods failed, there is a potential
for lifesaving sport to succeed in drowning prevention, rescue, treatment. I
support with all my strength the Greek
Lifesaving Sports Association that aim to make Greece safer."
Virginia Kravarioti is a Bronze Olympian in
sailing in "Beijing 2008" in the three-seater category of Yngling. She participated in the
"Athens 2004" Olympic Games with the women's car category
"Europe" and took 9th place. She was a member of the National Sailing
Team for over 15 years in the categories Optimist, Laser Radial, Europe, 470,
Yngling. She is a graduate of the School of Physical Education and Sports
Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in
the sport of Sailing. She speaks Greek, English and French. She has been
distinguished in International and National events: 3rd, 4th, 5th place in the
Laser Radial category (World Junior Championships 2000, Junior World
Championships 1999, ISAF Junior World Championships 1999). She finished 2nd,
4th, 10th in the single-seater laser radial category (Palma De Mallorca World
Cup 2006, Holland Regatta Medemblik World Cup, Hyeres France). She finished 2nd
at the Test Event 2002 pre-Olympic Games Athens Regatta in the women's single
car category Europe. She finished 7th, 7th, 9th in the
European Championships (Junior 2002, 470 two-seater women 2010, Yngling
three-seater women 2008). She came 4th and 5th in the Mediterranean Games 2013,
2005. She won 4 Gold medals in the Balkan Championships 2005-2006-2007 with the
women radial laser category and 2012 with the 470 women two-seater category.
She is a Greek Champion in the Europe categories women single car
category (2002-2004), Laser Radial Women single car category (1999-2001 and
2005-2008, 2009), 470 two-seater women category (2010-2012). Today she Coaches
in the single-seater Olympic Laser categories at the Piraeus Sailing Club. She
is the Vice President of the Hellenic Olympians Association, and Board Member
of the Hellenic Olympic Winners Association. She is a collaborator of the
International Olympic Truce Center in order to contribute to Greek Sports but
also to participate in educational programs for young people that aim to
promote the Values of Sports, Olympic Education, the
"Good Fight", the treatment of school bullying through sports but
also the importance of the Olympic Truce. She holds the position of Vice
President of the Board of the Hellenic Sailing Class of the Laser car category,
where she has competed for most of her career, with the aim of developing the
class in our country, since it is the most populous and most competitive
category of sailing.
GLSA President, Dr. Stathis Avramidis said: "GLSA
was founded on 4-2-2020. Since then it became the home of lifesaving sport in
Greece and a respected organization with national origin and international
impact. We are thrilled to be associated with such an accomplished athlete as
Virginia is. Her ethos, sportsmanship and qualities as a person are as
outstanding as her sporting achievements. She is the winner inside and outside
the water, in everything she is doing. We are honored to have Virginia among
the team of the GLSA Supporters."
