Athina Frai

Athina Frai
Personal information
Full nameAntonia-Athina Frai
NicknameTony Frey
NationalityGreek
Born (1976-01-17) 17 January 1976 (age 48)
Hamburg, Germany
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Sailing career
ClassSailboard
ClubTzitzifies Kallithea Yacht Club
CoachPanagiotis Bizios

Antonia-Athina Frai (Greek: Αντωνία-Αθήνα Φράι; born 17 January 1976) is a Greek former windsurfer, who specialized in Mistral and Neil Pryde RS:X classes.[1] She picked up a bronze medal at the inaugural RS:X Europeans in 2006 and also represented her country Greece in two editions of the Summer Olympic Games (2004 and 2008), finishing in the fifteenth position each, respectively.[2][3] A member of Tzitzifies Kallithea Yacht Club, Frai trained most of her competitive sporting career under the tutelage of her personal coach Panagiotis Bizios.

Frai made her Olympic debut in Athens 2004, when Greece hosted the Games for the second time in history. There, she accumulated a net grade of 123 points to obtain a fifteenth overall position at the end of the eleven-race series in the women's Mistral One Design class.[4][5]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Frai qualified for her second Greek team, as a 32-year-old, in the inaugural women's RS:X class.[6] Building up to her Olympic selection, she finished twenty-first in the gold fleet to secure one of the eighteen places offered at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais, Portugal.[7] Chasing against a vast fleet of windsurfers to the front, Frai steered her best way under breezy conditions to get a couple of top ten marks through the midway of the series. Frai's scores attained in each of the ten legs, however, narrowly missed her opportunity to enter the medal race by a slight edge, sitting her in the same spot as the previous Games with 107 net points.[8]

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Athina Frai". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Dempsey and Manchón Crowned European Champions". World Sailing. 16 June 2006. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  3. ^ Πεκίνο 2008: Τα χρυσά χαρτιά της ελληνικής αποστολής [Beijing 2008: Golden tickets for the Greek team] (in Greek). In2life. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Women's Mistral One Design Class". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  5. ^ Ασημένιος ο Νίκος Κακλαμανάκης [Nikos Kaklamanakis takes the silver] (in Greek). Rizospastis. 26 August 2004. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  6. ^ Η παρουσία των αθλητών μας στους Αγώνες [The presence of our athletes at the Games] (in Greek). In.gr. 24 August 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  7. ^ Ο Κακλαμανάκης για το Πεκίνο με ιστιοσανίδα RSX [Kaklamanakis will compete in Beijing for the RS:X sailboard] (in Greek). Kathimerini. 22 January 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Beijing 2008: Women's RS:X Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2013.