The first captain of the Women’s National Basketball Team, Dimitra Zaponidou, has “gone”.

Her loss Dimitras Zaponidou mourns Greek basketball. She passed away at the age of 88 having made history in the sport.

The deceased was the first captain of the National Women’s Basketball team, in the first official game in its history on April 15, 1958, in the victory over Lebanon with 68-32 where she scored 14 points.

She excelled as an athlete of Panionios, with whom she won the Athens-Piraeus Women’s Championship in 1951 as the first and undefeated team of the category. Later he also competed in A.E. Athens Vineyards.

In difficult conditions of poverty, he managed to excel in basketball. She sewed her first pair of shorts by herself and alongside her great love, basketball, she worked in a factory to support her family.

The announcement:

Greek basketball is in mourning.

The Panhellenic Association of Paid Basketball Players expresses its deepest condolences for the “loss” of Dimitra Zaponidou.

The first captain of our national team is no longer with us and Greek basketball has become “poorer”.

We will remember with love her tender words about basketball and life and we will continue to read the pages of the history of Greek basketball with her as the protagonist…