{"id":612122,"date":"2025-05-19T01:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=612122"},"modified":"2025-05-19T01:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T08:16:47","slug":"apostolos-siskos-sets-greek-200-back-record-to-become-first-man-inside-155-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/apostolos-siskos-sets-greek-200-back-record-to-become-first-man-inside-155-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Apostolos Siskos Sets Greek 200 Back Record To Become First Man Inside 1:55 This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apostolos Siskos Sets Greek 200 Back Record To Become First Man Inside 1:55 This Year<\/h4>\n

Apostolos Siskos<\/strong> set a national 200 back record of 1:54.66 at the Greek Championships<\/strong> in Thessaloniki to become the first man inside 1:55 this year.<\/p>\n

The 2024 European silver medallist followed up his 1:55.18 at the Giant Open in Paris <\/a>the previous week as he took 0.16 from the previous national record of of 1:54.82 set by Apostolos Christou<\/strong> on his way to an historic silver at Paris 2024 as he became the first Greek man to win a medal in the pool since 1896.\u00a0That had been a PB for Siskos who shaved 0.52 from his time this weekend.<\/p>\n

Christou was second in 1:57.08 with Apostolos Papastamos\u00a0<\/strong>third in 1:58.76.<\/p>\n

The four-day meet acts as trials for the World Championships in Singapore.<\/p>\n

Christou claimed his 12th gold medal across all his Greek Championships appearances as he topped the men\u2019s 100m backstroke in 52.55, well inside the QT for Singapore.<\/p>\n

Evangelos Makrygiannis <\/strong>was second in 54.35 followed by Siskos who rounded out the podium in 54.83.<\/p>\n

European champion Apostolos Papastamos<\/strong> made the Singapore QT in the 400IM as he stopped the clock in 4:14.37 which followed the 200IM where he fell just 0.03 shy of the 1:59.05 time he needed for the worlds.<\/p>\n

Nikoletta Pavlopoulou<\/strong> broke the women’s Greek 100m breaststroke record in 1:08.39 as she lowered Angeliki Exarchou’s<\/strong> 1:09.98 that had stood since 2009.<\/p>\n

Artemis Vasilaki <\/strong>also set a national record in the women’s 200IM, lowering Pavlopoulou’s standard to 2:13.91.<\/p>\n

Anna Ntountounaki<\/strong> won her 11th consecutive title in the specialty by touching in 26.41 and\u00a0Dimitrios Markos<\/strong> won his third straight 200 free title in 1:47.06.<\/p>\n