About Anna Korakaki
Anna Korakaki (Greek: Άννα Κορακάκη; born 8 April 1996) is a Greek Olympic shooter. == Career == She represented Greece at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the 25m pistol shot event and a Bronze medal in the 10m air pistol shooting event. The Gold medal she won for Greece was following a hiatus since the last Gold medal won for Greece, at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her Olympic distinctions include: she was the first Greek woman in her maiden appearance at an Olympics (then aged 20 years) to be a multi-Olympic medalist for Greece at the same Olympiad, a feat last achieved by a Greek Olympic athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics with Konstantinos Tsiklitiras. In the 25m fire pistol event, Korakaki of Greece and Monika Karsch of Germany would vie for Gold medalist, each holding a tie or the lead with each succeeding round, and Korakaki would defeat Karsch after She won three rounds thus getting a lead of 6–0, then the Germany rival won the next three rounds and thus bringing it to a 6–6 tie. In the last round, Germany missed the first and third shots of their five shots, and Korakaki had missed her fourth shot, but she hit her fifth shot and won 8–6, taking the gold and avoiding a tie. Korakaki has competed since 2009. She is with the Orion Shooting Club of Thessaloniki and she is coached by her father and retired shooter Tassos Korakakis. She is an undergraduate student in Special Education at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. On 12 March 2020, she became the first woman to be the originating Olympic athlete torchbearer of an Olympic torch relay.
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