Aikaterini "Katerina" Divari (Greek: Αικατερίνη "Κατερινα" Διβαρη; born 8 March 2000) is a Greek windsurfer, who specialized in Neil Pryde RS:X class.[1] She finished in the Techno 293 class at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and also represented her country Greece on her senior windsurfing debut at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020, landing in the nineteenth position.[2][3] A member of Nautical Sports Club at Vari Varkiza, Divari trained most of her competitive sporting career under the tutelage of her personal coach Jean-Marc Fantis.[4]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Aikaterini Divari |
| Nationality |  Greece |
| Born | 8 March 2000 Athens, Greece |
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) |
| Sailing career | |
| Class | Sailboard |
| Club | NSC Vari Varkiza |
| Coach | Jean-Marc Fantis |
Divari made her international debut, as an eighteen-year-old teen, at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, sailing competitively in the girls' Techno 293+. There, she accumulated a net grade of 73 to obtain the fifth overall position at the end of the thirteen-race series, narrowly missing out on the podium by 27 points.[5]
At the rescheduled 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Divari qualified for her maiden Greek team in the women's RS:X class.[6] Building up to her Olympic selection, she finished eighteenth to secure the lone available berth offered at the 2020 RS:X Europeans in Vilamoura, Portugal.[7] Divari clearly struggled to catch a large fleet of windsurfers from behind under breezy conditions with marks lower than fourteenth place at the end of twelve-race series, sitting her steadily in the nineteenth spot with 204 net points.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Katerina Divari". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες Νέων: Εντυπωσιακό ξεκίνημα για Καλπογιαννάκη [Youth Olympic Games: Impressive start for Kalpogiannaki]. www.sport24.gr (in Greek). Sport 24. 8 October 2018. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ Τόκιο 2020-Κατερίνα Δίβαρη: Στην 23η θέση μετά τις τρεις πρώτες ιστιοδρομίες [Tokyo 2020: Katerina Divari finished twenty-third after the first three races]. www.sport3.gr (in Greek). Sport 3. 25 July 2021. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ Δείπνο της Ελληνικής Ιστιοπλοικής Ομοσπονδίας στην Ολυμπιακή Ομάδα Ιστιοπλοίας του Τόκιο 2021 [Hellenic Sailing Federation for the Tokyo 2021 Sailing Team]. www.athensmagazine.gr (in Greek). Athens Magazine. 20 July 2021. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ^ Κατερίνα Δίβαρη: Το κορίτσι και η θάλασσα [Katerina Divari: The Girl and the Sea] (in Greek). To Vima. 19 July 2021. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ "Meet All the Athletes Representing Greece at the Tokyo Olympics". Greek Reporter. 23 July 2021. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ Ιστιοπλοΐα: Κοντά στο μετάλλιο ο Κοκκαλάνης στο Ευρωπαϊκό RSX στην Πορτογαλία! [Sailing: Kokkalanis missed out the medal at the RS:X Europeans in Portugal] (in Greek). Fos. 27 November 2020. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ "Women's RS:X Class". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
External links
edit- Aikaterini Divari at World Sailing
- Aikaterini Divari at Olympics.com
- Aikaterini Divari at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 July 2021)
- Katerina Divari at NBC Olympics
- Katerina Divari on Instagram