Despina Zapounidou

Who is Despina Zapounidou?

Despina Zapounidou is a Greek race walker. She competed in the 20 km kilometres event at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. She holds two Greek records: 1:37:40.59 hours for the 20,000 m track walk and 13:02.45 minutes for the 3000 m indoor track walk.

As a junior athlete she came twelfth in the 10,000 m track walk at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics and fifth in t10 km road walk at the 2004 IAAF World Race Walking Cup. She entered the senior 20 km event at the 2006 and 2008 Race Walking Cup but failed to finished on both occasions. She also failed to finish at the 2005 Universiade and the 2013 European Race Walking Cup.