Ioannis Drymonakos

Who is Ioannis Drymonakos?

Ioannis Drymonakos is a Greek swimmer from Athens. He became the first ever Greek swimmer to hold a European swimming record by clocking a time of 1:54.16 seconds in 200 m butterfly event of the 2008 European Aquatics Championships final on 21 March 2008.

In 2008, a few days before the Beijing Olympic Games he tested positive for banned drugs during a doping-control test.

He came back in 2010 winning the bronze medal at the European Championship in Budapest in the event of 200 m butterfly.

In 2012 he won two more bronze medals at the European Championship in Debrecen. The last race of his career was the semifinal of 200 m butterfly at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, in which he took the 15th place overall.