Angeliki Exarchou


Angeliki Exarchou is a Greek former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. She represented her nation Greece at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and had also collected a total of four medals in an international competition, spanning two editions of the Mediterranean Games. Exarchou also dipped under a 1:10 barrier to set a Greek record of 1:08.99 in the 100 m breaststroke at the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, Italy.
Exarchou competed as part of the Greek squad in a breaststroke double at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she cleared FINA B-standard entry times of 1:09.35 and 2:30.05 at the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand. In the 100 m breaststroke, Exarchou raced her steady stretch to sixth place and thirtieth overall by two hundredths of a second behind Turkey's Dilara Buse Günaydın in 1:10.47. Three days later, in the 200 m breaststroke, Exarchou closed out the field in heat three to last and thirty-ninth overall by nearly ten seconds behind Belarus' two-time Olympian Inna Kapishina in 2:36.83. failing to advance to the semifinals.