- Vasso Karantasiou
Vasiliki ("Vasso") Karantasiou (born
January 6 ,1973 inAthens, Greece ) is a femalebeach volleyball player fromGreece , who won the gold medal at the 2005 European Championships inMoscow, Russia , partneringVassiliki Arvaniti . She represented her native country at the2004 Summer Olympics in her home town, after having competed at the2000 Summer Olympics as well.Karantasiou started competing on the SWATCH-FIVB World Tour in 1997 and played 64 of her first 68 international events with
Efi Sfyri . Karantasiou and Sfyri placed 17th at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and ninth at the 2001 World Championships inKlagenfurt ,Austria . The Karantasiou/Sfyri partnership ranks fifth all-time in career FIVB starts with the pair posting a 136-132 match mark together with $247,610 in earnings (20th place).While Karantasiou was named the Top Women’s Player for the 2005 season by the
CEV , Arvaniti became the youngest woman (20 years, three months, 15 days) to win a SWATCH event. The pair upset top-rankedJuliana Felisberta andLarissa Franca ofBrazil in the finals of the Norway Grand Slam inStavanger .Individual Awards
* "FIVB Top Women's Player 2005"
Playing partners
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Vassiliki Arvaniti
*Efthalia Koutroumanidou
*Efi Sfyri
*Stavroula Theodorou
*Rodi Ordoulidou References
* [http://www.bvbinfo.com/player.asp?ID=1294 Vasso Karadassiou - Profile] at the
Beach Volleyball Database
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