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Greek Rowing Team Sets New World Record

greece-gets-gold-and-silver-in-sculling.w_lThe Greek quad scullĀ teamĀ of Spyros Yiannaros, Panagiotis Magdanis, Lefteris and Giorgos Konsolas won the gold medal in rowing and set a new world record on Friday, August 29 at the World Championship held in Amsterdam.
The Greek team had a good head start from the beginning and managed to finish first with a time of 5:42.75 seconds. Their time was seven seconds less that the current world record. Germany came second in the race with a time of 5:45.65 seconds and China was third with a time of 5:46.69.
Furthermore, Katerina NicolaidouĀ brought another medal to Greece as she came second in the sculls final and won the silver medal at the World Rowing Championships, while Evelyn Peleman from Belgium came first.
ā€œThe race was very difficult. I was very slow to start. I rowed with strength and got a medal. Iā€™m pretty happy,ā€ Nicolaidou said.
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