Sofia Sakorafa
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Sofia Sakorafa MEP |
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| Σοφία Σακοράφα | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sakorafa, 2016
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| Member of the European Parliament for Greece |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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| Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens B |
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In office 17 June 2012 – 5 May 2014 |
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| Succeeded by | Fotini Kouvela | |||||||||||||||||||||
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29 April 1957 Trikala, Thessaly, Greece |
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| Citizenship |
 Greece /  Palestine
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| Political party |
PASOK (2000 - 2010) Syriza (2012 - 2015) Independent (since 2015) |
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| Country | Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Women's Javelin | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Sofia Sakorafa (Greek: Σοφία Σακοράφα, born 29 April 1957) is a Palestinian-Greek politician and former javelin thrower. She is currently an Independent Member of the European Parliament for Greece, having formerly sat for Syriza and before that served, from June 2012 to July 2014, as a Syriza Member of the Hellenic Parliament.
Sakorafa graduated in physical education from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
She started competing in athletics at age fifteen as a member of Trikala Gymnastic Club. In total, Sakorafa – often pushed by her antagonism with Anna Verouli – broke the Greek record for the javelin seventeen times. She competed in the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics.
Sakorafa broke the world record' on 16 September 1982 with a throw of 74.20 metres. That mark stood as a Greek record until the new javelin was introduced in 1999. She won the bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships in Athletics in Athens.
Sakorafa stirred controversy in 2004 when she became a Palestinian citizen and applied a few months before the Olympic Games for a berth on the Palestinian Olympic team at the age of 47. She made her debut representing Palestine in Chania, Crete, on 28 June 2004 - her performance was 47.23 metres. Despite the fact that her gesture to participate as a Palestinian was symbolic, the IAAF ruled her ineligible for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Sakorafa worked in as a secondary teacher of physical education before working as a freelance. From 1994 to 1996, she served as an adviser to the sports minister and as Chairman of the Commission for Sport and Woman.
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