Athina Tzavella (; born 9 January 1988) is a Greek former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke and individual medley events. Tzavella won a bronze medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 2003 European Junior Swimming Championships in Glasgow, Scotland with a time of 2:16.35, 0.11 of a second behind her teammate Vasiliki Angelopoulou. Having reached a B-standard entry time by FINA, Tzavella earned a spot on the Greek team for the Olympics.

Tzavella represented the host nation Greece, as a 16-year-old, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, competing in two swimming events. In the 200 m individual medley, Tzavella challenged seven other swimmers, including U.S. swimmer and three-time Olympian Amanda Beard on the third heat of the morning's preliminaries. She finished only in seventh place for her heat and twenty-third overall by less than 0.22 of a second behind Malaysia's Siow Yi Ting with a time of 2:20.30. In her second event, 200 m breaststroke, Tzavella recorded a slowest time of 2:40.18 on the same heat, finishing thirty-first overall in the preliminaries.

Athina Tzavella

References

External links

2004 Olympic Profile – Eideisis Ellinika

1988 births

Living people

Greek female swimmers

Olympic swimmers for Greece

Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Greek female breaststroke swimmers

Greek female medley swimmers

Swimmers from Athens

20th-century Greek women

21st-century Greek women

Athina Tzavella