Eighty-two male and female athletes will represent Greek judo at the U18 European Cup in Thessaloniki, which will be held in Alexandrio Melathros on the weekend of November 23-24, and in which a total of 483 judokas from 29 countries have declared their participation. The Thessaloniki event is included in the official calendar of the European Judo Union (EJU) and is the first international event to be held in our country after almost two years.
The participations of: Sofia Matzirides (No-13 in the World ranking of -63km, 1st in Telavi, 2nd in Antalya and Gioigiol), Veroniki Iosifidou (1st in Telavi, 2nd in the Balkan U18), Irini Cleo Papadopoulou (3rd in the Balkan U18), Eleni Taxidou (3rd place Telavi, 3rd in the Balkan U18), Angelos Kostelidis (3rd in the Balkan U18), Elektra Evangelia Mitakidou and Aikaterini Papadopoulou.
The 82 judokas of Greece for the Thessaloniki Cadet European Cup 2024
BOY
-50 kg: Dimitrios Dionysios Anastasopoulos, Pavlos Anastasov, Antonios Nikolakopoulos
-55 kg: Leonidas Mavridis, Nikolaos Sofioglou, Theodoros Spanos, Petros Zaimidis
-60 kg: Christos Bosdelakidis, Evangelos Bosdelakidis, Maximos Orestis Boukouvalas, Nikolaos Despotis, Panagiotis Dimitrakas. Emmanuel Dios, Panagiotis Fusteris, Konstantinos Georgiadis, George Giannakis, Marios Karypidis, Marios Nikitas Mageirias, Konstantinos Dimitrios Malerdos, Alexandros Polychronidis, Theodoros Posnakidis, Petros Rotsos, Georgios Sopilidis
-66 kg: Konstantinos Androutsos, Alexandros Belos, Michael Angelos Gavrilis, George Kalifatidis, George Mabentzidis, Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Panagiotis Prentzas, Angelos Rallis, George Spanos, Stylianos Titopoulos, Anastasios Tzamalis
-73 kg: Dionysios Anastasiadis, Nikolaos Andronopoulos, Vasilios Damianidis, Efthimios Golias, Ioannis Katranidis, Georgios Kazoukas, Georgios Papadopoulos, Achilles Tsadekov
-81 kg: Dionysios Bestaev, Agathoklis-Aris Boukouvalas, Georgios Boutaniotis, Dimitrios Giannakos, Anastasios Larios, Loukas Davitandze, Tryfonas Stathopoulos
-90 kg: Giorgi Karaklidis, Angelos Kostelidis, Dimitrios Nazlis, Pavlos Prentzas, Nikolaos Tzagidis
+90 kg: Victor Gularashvili, Alexios-Paisios Zarafonitis
GIRLS
-48 kg: Konstantina Haidou, Aikaterini Kanellopoulou, Maria Eleni Markou, Evangelia Papatheodorou, Iliana Stavropoulou
-52 kg: Nina Amaxopoulou, Evdokia Christopoulou, Veroniki Iosifidou, Despina Papadopoulou, Irini Cleo Papadopoulou, Maria Tzabarli
-57 kg: Ioanna Kakarantza, Christina Kesidou, Aikaterina Papadopoulou, Dimitra Siraki
-63 kg: Efthymia Akrivoulis, Annie-Iris Chryssaki, Lydia Dourou, Drosia Matzirides, Sofia Matzirides, Chrysoula Stavroula Ouranitsa, Anna Papastergiou, Eleni Taxidou
-70 kg: Electra Evangelia Mitakidou, Maria Eleni Papaioannou
+70 kg: Natalia Haganesian
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