Athanasia Tsoumeleka

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Athanasia Tsoumeleka (born January 2, 1982) is an Greek race walker who won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Until 2003 Tsoumeleka was a largely unknown athlete, and she only finished seventh at the World Championships that year. To great surprise, she won the Olympic gold medal race held in her own country ahead of Russian Olimpiada Ivanova (silver) and Australian Jane Saville (bronze).

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