The Deree Swim Academy successfully participated with 43 athletes in the “Winter Championship of Southern Greece for Boys – Girls, Teens – Juniors”, held on February 16-18 at OAKA.

The Deree College Athletic Club won the championship in the Boys – Girls, Boys, Girls categories, 3 new trophies, and 36 medals in total!

Worth mentioning were the placings in the finals with 32 different athletes, the personal records, and the 1,225 points (993 Boys-Girls+232 Teenagers-Teens) that the DCAC collected in total.

Congratulations to all athletes and their coaches!

The Deree Swim Academy participated with 30 athletes in its first target competition of the season, held at OAKA, February 9-11, and secured the first position in the Girls B’ category and in the overall standings of Boys-Girls A’ & B’, winning a total of 2 trophies and 19 medals (6 gold, 7 silver, 6 bronze).

Analytically the medals:

Gold (6):

• Vlachakis Marios: 100m, 200m butterfly, and 200m individual medley

• Painesi Natassa: 200m individual medley

• Albanis Vitalios: 200m individual medley

• Chalvantzi Kali, Zarboutis Anastasis, Tzoumis Dimitris, Painesi Natassa: 4x100m individual medley relay A’-B’-B’

Silver (7):

• Chalvantzi Kali: 200m backstroke

• Tzoumis Dimitris: 100m butterfly

• Albanis Vitalios: 400m individual medley

• Solomou Katerina, Panayioti Manos, Vlachakis Marios, Kripa Irida: 4x100m mixed freestyle relay A’

• Vlachakis Marios, Panayioti Manos, Solomou Katerina, Kripa Irida: 4x100m mixed freestyle relay A’

• Tzoumis Dimitris, Albanis Vitalios, Kanari Elena, Painesi Natassa: 4x100m mixed freestyle relay B’

• Chalvantzi Kali, Geramani Vasiliki, Kanari Elena, Painesi Natassa: 4x200m freestyle relay B’

Bronze (6):

• Solomou Katerina: 200m freestyle, 100m, 200m backstroke

• Tzoumis Dimitris, Tsoumpelis Nikolaos, Albánis Vitalios, Theodoulidis Thanasis: 4x100m freestyle relay B’

• Chalvantzi Kali, Painesi Natassa, Perdikari Angeliki, Kanari Elena: 4x100m individual medley relay B’

• Ioannou Stergios, Zarboutis, Albanis Vitalios, Theodoulidis Thanasis: 4x100m individual medley relay B’

Finally, it’s worth mentioning the numerous placements in the top 8 and top 16 of the events, the countless individual records, and the 1015 points we gathered.

Congratulations to everyone!

The Deree Swim Academy participated successfully with 25 athletes and won 10 medals in the “2nd Winter Swimming Competition for Pre-Competition Categories, in a 50m swimming pool”, held on February 3-4 at OAKA.

Congratulations to all for their effort!

Gold Medals

Mantzara Filio (100m freestyle, 200m breaststroke and 50m backstroke)
Kapetanea Konstantina (50m backstroke)
Stavrianou Renia (50m freestyle)
Ranzos Nikolas (50m freestyle and 50m butterfly)

Silver Medals

Stavrianou Renia (400m freestyle)
Alivizatos Stavros (200m breastroke)
Pentidis Yiannis (100m freestyle)

Bronze Medals

Alivizatos Stavros (50m backstroke)
Minogiannis Thanasis (200m freestyle)
Eleni Zafiropoulou (50m freestyle)

The Deree Swim Academy made a distinguished contribution to the Swim Event “Okeanos,” held at the Olympic Indoor Aquatic Center (OAKA) on January 12-14, and presented a contingent comprising 20 pre-competitive athletes and 65 competitive athletes.

Throughout the event, the athletes exhibited notable advancements in their individual performances, achieving numerous personal records and garnering commendable distinctions. Congratulations to the pre-competitive team, which secured 14 medals, and the competitive team, which achieved a noteworthy total of 31 medals!

The delegations were under the guidance of esteemed coaches, including Antoniou Antonis, Demetis Vasilis, Syrbopoulos Giannis, and Sofia Samartzi.

Sincere and profound congratulations are extended to all the participants for their outstanding accomplishments, reflecting the highest standards of sportsmanship and dedication.

The Deree Swim Academy participated with twenty-two athletes at the Men’s – Women’s Winter Championship (Open) at OAKA on Dec. 15-17.

We congratulate Marios Vlachakis on his national record, breaking his own at 200m. butterfly style, with an impressive 2:11:12, and Ioanna Pazaiti who won a gold medal at 200m. backstroke.

Even if our team was comprised of younger-age athletes, many achieved distinctions and qualifications in semi-finals or finals.

All distinctions below:

• Ioanna Pazaiti: 1^st at 200m Backstroke, 7^th at 100m Backstroke, 14^th at 50m Backstroke.
• Areti Zarbouti: 6^th at Breaststroke, 13^th at Group solo.
• Stella Rota: 6^th at 400m. Freestyle, 11^th at 200m. Freestyle, 14^th at 800m. Freestyle.
• Angelos Zografakis: 7^th at 200m. Butterfly.
• Lydia Sotiriou: 7^th at 200m Breaststroke.
• Konstantinos Geramanis: 9^th at 400m. Freestyle, 12^th at 200m. Freestyle.
• Danae Petropoulou: 9^th at 50m. Breaststroke, 10^th at 100m. Breaststroke, 15^th at 200m. Breaststroke.
• Marios Vlachakis: 10^th at 200m. Butterfly.
• Nefeli Venetsanou: 9^th at 200m. Freestyle, 13^th at 400m. Freestyle.
• Maria Exarchou: 10^th at 400m. Group solo, 12^th at 200m. Group solo.
• Sylia Xeera: 10^th at 1500m. Freestyle, 16^th at 800m. Freestyle.
• Laura Ferra: 10^th at 200m. Freestyle, 13^th at 100m. Freestyle.
• Doretta Zarbouti: 12^th at 200m. Breaststroke.
• Maria Gaitanidi: 14^th at 200m. Breaststroke.
• Eirini Anagnostopoulou: 14^th at 1500m. Freestyle.
• Annie Stavrianou: 15^th at 1500m. Freestyle.

(Note: the rankings are calculated without the foreign athletes, following K.O.E.’s directive)

Coaches Antonis Antoniou, Vasilis Demetis and Giannis Syrmpopoulos chaperoned our team.