For the second time in the last three years, Agoritsa Artemia (Rita) Kitsiou, was on the podium of winners at a European U21 championship.
As it happened in 2022 in Tirana, Kitsiou competed in Sarajevo this year and won the bronze medal in the +73 kg category.
Kitsiou, 9th in the European women’s championship last May in Belgrade and No-37 in the world ranking, reached the semi-finals with three consecutive victories.
Costa from Cyprus prevailed 2-0, Husovich from Germany won 2-0, and Mihailova from Russia (AIN) won 2-1. In Kitsiou’s match to enter the final, she was defeated 2-0 by Turkey’s Kavukcuoglu, the 2019 World Girls Champion.
It should be noted that Kitsiou’s medal (she was 5th in the European U21 in 2023 in Bucharest) is the 36th for Greek Olympic taekwondo since 2012.
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