Spyros Gianniotis To Lead The Greek Swimming Federation Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Spyros Gianniotis recalled his three-decade swimming career that culminated with a silver medal performance in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. He has now taken the helm of the Greek Swimming Federation as its president. “Three […]

Spyridon Gianniotis wrapped up his overall series victory in the 2012 FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup with a convincing victory in Shantou, China over the weekend. Just north of Hong Kong, the 2011 world champion proved the class of the field and the class of the season in the warm (24.5 degrees C) lake

As one of the Olympic marathon swimming gold medal favorites, Greece’s Spyros Gianniotis is cool, calm and collected. But his parents are nervous. His father is Greek, but his mother is English. “It is going to be Spyros and Thomas [Lurz],” quietly predicts his mother … as do other pundits. “It’s going to be a