In mourning the Greek space sank ping pongafter the news of Olga Georgopoulou’s death.
Ping Pong 39 -year -old athlete Olga Georgopoulou passed away on Tuesday morning (6/5/2025), defeated by the tremendous disease.
The great athlete of Pera Athens, the right -handed man with the excellent talent, “threw” for the neighborhood of the angels, sinking into sadness her loved ones, as well as the entire table tennis area, which was also a “family” for her.
Federation’s announcement
“The Greek sports federation of table tennis announces the death of Olga Georgopoulou.
Together with the whole world of the sport, he stands in front of the unjust, the very harsh loss and tightening to the heart, bid farewell to the Pan -Hellenic Athlete and Coach, the athlete’s representative to the Board of Directors of EFOEA, who left her early in the morning.
Everyone knew the unequal battle he fought with the tremendous disease. But all, at the same time seeing the admirable bravery, the courage, the mental power, with which he had been dealing with the problem in recent years. Nothing was needed to understand Olga’s militancy and faith when you saw her continuing her training work in AS Pera Athens, trying to help the club’s children, and even participate in the recent Panhellenic Championships! In addition, to be active in the role of athletes’ representative in the Federation, who was happy a few months ago and all of this between dozens of chemotherapy and periods with severe pain …
Her health had deteriorated lately. Those who met her on the pitch was felt, she confessed to her, who has long been talking openly, vigorously and without any hesitation about her adventure. But he never put it down. She struggled daily with the mentality of the winner, embedded in sports and her great successes, from an early age, in table tennis. Just last week he led his female team to the A1 category playoffs and celebrated with her the conquest of the silver medal.
The champion from Salamis was a fighter until the last minute. With such stubbornness, with such boldness, that you thought it would go well in her treatment and prolong the inevitable. Always next to her own people and her beloved sport, to draw strength and courage.
Unfortunately, however, this illness could not be defeated … This opponent was perhaps the only one with whom the charismatic Olga could not put it … The relentless, the shameless joy, who does not discriminate, cut the thread of life so prematurely. The great athlete of Pera Athens, the right -handed man with the excellent talent, “threw” for the neighborhood of the angels, sinking her loved ones, as well as the entire table of the table tennis, which was also a “family” for her.
The Federation expresses its deep sorrow and addresses its warm condolences to its relatives. No matter how well -known, the heavy situation of the deceased is unable at this time, like all the friends of the sport, to believe, to realize that the dear Olga is no longer with us. For only one they are already sure: that they feel immense respect for the huge struggle he gave, that he became an example of courage and militancy for every young man, who receives such a fate. Now he can rest, leave with calm and peace for the big journey …
Olga Georgopoulou’s sports biography
In the sport, who has served with love and consistency for three decades, Olga Georgopoulou has been a champion of Greece and an international athlete for many years. She caught a racket and developed her talent in Telamonas Salamis.
She was a member of the National Women at the 2005 European Championships in Denmark, where the historical rise to the super class of Epirus was achieved. In the two years 2005-2007 he was honored and the pleasure of participating in Greece’s only presence in the top European category of women.
He was a champion of Greece in the simple youth 3 consecutive years (2002, 2003, 2004)
Champion of Greece and in the double youth 3 consecutive years (2002, 2003, 2004)
Greek champion in the double women’s doubles (2003, 2005)
Greek champion in double mixed young men-women in 2005
He celebrated six championships (2004, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015) and 4 Greek Cups (2003, 2004, 2009, 2010) with AS. In addition to Athens
He took 3rd place in the simple women of the 2006 Panhellenic Championship.
She climbed four times to the second step of the podium in the women’s double of the Panhellenic Championship (2005, 2009, 2013, 2014) and this year, in her latest presence at the racing table, she came in the 3rd race with Dimitra-Thomaida Tsekoura. With the same athlete, she competed in last year’s Pan -Hellenic Championship in Salamis and experienced the apostasy in her place from the world, which was on the pitch and the stands.
Athlete of national teams from young age
Along with the Greek A1 he has successfully competed for several years in the National categories of France. “