| Theodora Paschalidou | |
|---|---|
| Nation | Greece |
| Birthday | March 12, 1997 |
| Place of birth | Greece |
| Weight | 70 kg |
| Profession | A law student |
| Career | |
| Trainer | Stavros Stagalis |
| Status | active |
Theodora (Dora) Paschalidou (Greek Theodora (Dora) Paschalidouborn March 12, 1997 in Greece) is a Greek judoka who represented her country at the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games.
Paschalidou is studying law (as of 2022). In her free time, she sings and plays the musical instrument kanun. she is blind[1]
Paschalidou started judo in 2005. She liked to fight without hurting anyone. When her teacher, the paralympic judoka Theoklitos Papachristos, wanted to become a judo coach, she spontaneously decided to start judo.
Theodora Paschalidou won a silver medal in the under 63 kg category at the 2016 Visual Impaired German Open in Heidelberg.
In 2017 she came third at the IBSA International Judo Tournament in Vilnius.[2]
At the 2020 Summer Paralympic Games, which took place in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paschalidou took 7th place among athletes with very severe visual impairment (B1) in the category up to 70kg. She lost to both Japan’s Kazusa Ogawa by ippon and Mexico’s Alvarez.[3]
In 2022 she won the silver medal in the category over 70 kg at the international judo tournament for the blind in Alexandria (Egyptian Pyramids International Championships).[4] In the autumn of the same year, Paschalidou took part in the Para-Judo World Championships in Baku in the J1 category for women under 70 kg and finished fifth.[5] Also in 2022, she came third in the J1 category up to 70 kg at the European Judo Championships for the Blind at the Pala Pirastu Sports Palace in Cagliari.[6]
- ↑ The blind judoka Dora Paschalidou in Newsbeast: Disability should not alienate anyone because it is very easy to come by. In: meallamatia.gr. Retrieved March 5, 2023 (Greek).
- ↑ KomotiniPress.gr: Silver medal for Papachristos in Vilnius, third for Paschalidou. 4. June 2017, accessed March 5, 2023 (Greek).
- ↑ Sportsfeed: TOKYO 2020 – Paralympics: 7th place for Paschalidou. Retrieved March 5, 2023 (Greek).
- ↑ Judo for the blind: Silver medals for Paschalidou and Masourou in Egypt. March 26, 2022, accessed March 5, 2023 (Greek).
- ↑ On Sports Team: Disabled – World Judo Championship: 5th Paschalidou, 7th Papachristos – Today the team. 10. November 2022, accessed March 5, 2023 (Greek).
- ↑ Peter Figueiredo: Judo: Ukraine wins the Euro’s race for gold. In: IBSA International Blind Sports Federation. 4. September 2022, accessed March 5, 2023 (American English).
