Alexandra Asimaki (; ; born 28 June 1988) is a Greek

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player considered one of the best female water polo players in the world in the 21st century. Asimaki was part of the Greece women's national water polo team awarded the

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at the 2011 World Championship which took place in

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in July 2011. After her outstanding performance in this tournament, she was named best European and World Female Water Polo Player of the Year 2011.http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2669:pr-72-fina-selected-this-years-best-in-the-five-disciplines&catid=275:2011&Itemid=246 ; 2011 FINA Awards, 5 December 2011

Club career

* 2004–2006

Nautical Club of Vouliagmeni NO Vouliagmeni or "NOV" (Greek: Ναυτικός Όμιλος Βουλιαγμένης, "NOB" = Nautical Club of Vouliagmeni) is a major aquatic sports club, founded by local sportsmen in 1937 in the seaside resort of Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece. ...

* 2006–2007 CN Ciudad de Alcorcón * 2007–2014

* 2014–2020 Olympiacos Piraeus * 2021–today Alimos

Club honours

Vouliagmeni

* LEN Champions Cups ** 2009 and 2010 * LEN Super Cups ** 2009 and 2010 * Greek Championships ** 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012 and 2013

Olympiacos

* LEN Euro League ** 2015 *

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** 2015 * Greek Championships ** 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 * Greek Cups ** 2018 and 2020

Alcorcón

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** 2007

National team honours

* Gold medals **

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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

. ** World League:

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

. ** Europa Cup:

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

. * Silver medals **

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

and

. * Bronze medals **

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

** World League:

and

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Individual awards

* FINA World Water Polo Player of the Year ** 2011 * LEN European Water Polo Player of the Year ** 2011

References

External links

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Alexandra Asimaki
at the

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Alexandra Asimaki – athlete profile at Olympiacos SFP website
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