She represented Greece at the2016 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the25m pistol shot event and a Bronze medal in the10m air pistol shooting event. The Gold medal she won for Greece was following a hiatus since the last Gold medal won for Greece, at the2004 Summer Olympics. Her Olympic distinctions include: she was the first Greek woman in her maiden appearance at an Olympics (then aged 20 years) to be a multi-Olympic medalist for Greece at the same Olympiad, a fete last achieved by a Greek Olympic athlete at the1912 Summer Olympics withKonstantinos Tsiklitiras.[2] In the 25m fire pistol event, Korakaki of Greece and Monika Karsch of Germany would vie for Gold medalist, each holding a tie or the lead with each succeeding round, and Korakaki would defeat Karsch after[3] She won three rounds thus getting a lead of 6–0, then the Germany rival won the next three rounds and thus bringing it to a 6–6 tie. In the last round, Germany missed 1st and 3rd shots of the 5 shots, and Korakaki had missed her 4th shot, but she hit her 5th shot and won 8–6, taking the gold and avoiding a tie.[4]
Korakaki has competed since 2009. She is with theOrion Shooting Club of Thessaloniki[5] and she is coached by her father and retired shooter Tassos Korakakis.[6] She is an undergraduate student in Special Education at theUniversity of Macedonia inThessaloniki.[7]
On 12 March 2020, she became the first woman to be the originatingOlympic athlete torchbearer of an Olympic torch relay.[8]
She was designated byGreek Olympic Committee as the flag bearer for theTokyo 2020 Olympic Games, along with the Greek artistic gymnastEleftherios Petrounias.[9] In her participation at Olympics, she placed 6th both in the 10m air pistol and in the 25m pistol. After the completion of the competitions, she revealed that her performance had been affected due to the stalking she had suffered for a long time from an individual, who was eventually sentenced to five years in prison.[10]
AtParis 2024 Olympic Games she placed 44th in women’s 10-meter air pistol and 34th in women's 25-meter air pistol.[11]
Gold medalist at the 2018 World Cup Final inGuadalajara.
Gold and Silver medalist at the2016 World Cup inBologna. In the 25m pistol, she won a Gold medal with an overall score of 39/50, beating South KoreanJangami Kim and UkrainianOlena Kostevich who respectively won the Silver and Bronze medals.[14]
Jiang Ranxin (CHN)
