European champion Apostolos Christou will be in the 100m backstroke final at the Paris Olympic Games on Monday (29/7, 10:19 pm), for the first time in his career.
The Greek swimmer participated in the second semi-final series and with a performance of 52.77 he finished second, ranking with the sixth best performance.
Christou is a “debutant” in the Olympic Games final, but his class creates expectations of a very good result.
It is important to highlight that if he finds himself in the medal zone, he will be the first Greek in history in the swimming discipline.
Vangelis Makrygiannis was unlucky, after his very good performance (52.97) he finished sixth on the front row and ninth overall, losing the final by just two hundredths of a second to Spaniard Uggy Gonzalez de Oliveira (52.95).