The beautiful Foro Italico sports center was the perfect stage for one of the best Greek swimming competitions. Apostolos Christou also added a silver medal in the 100m backstroke and Christian Golomeev moved up to 3rd place on the podium in the 50m freestyle at the European Championships in Rome. Thus, the harvest of our champions has reached three medals, and our country has reached 26 in the history of the institution.

The color of the medal, which was not in his collection, was purchased by Apostolos Christou. After gold in the 50m backstroke, he placed 2nd in the 100m in the same style, which is his fourth consecutive medal after bronze he won in London (2016), Glasgow (2018) and Budapest ( 2021). Christou had a great fight against Italian Thomas Ceccon, who holds the world record. Finally, the Italian won with 52.21, followed by Christou with 52.24, while France’s Brouart finished third with 52.92. “Everything was decided in a split second.

The Italian played at home and had additional motivation. I saved my strength for the end, but I couldn’t. Now I will prepare for the 2023 World Cup. My big goal is the 2024 Olympic Games,” said the Greek champion.

Huge differences from two Greek swimmers at the European Championships in Rome.

Christian Golomeev struggled with all his might for a place on the podium and achieved his goal. With a score of 21.75 he took 3rd place and added a third medal in a row to his collection. “Today we flew, in just five months of training, the result was very good. I really believed in it,” he stressed. The first was Proud (Great Britain) with a score of 21.58 and the second was Deblano (Italy) with a score of 21.60.

6th place in the 200 m final. Andreas Vasios finished mixed.