Varvara Filiou
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| Alternative name(s) | Barbara Filiou | ||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Ms. Barbie | ||||||||||||
| Country represented |
 Greece
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| Born |
29 December 1994 Attiki, Greece |
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| Residence | Athens, Greece | ||||||||||||
| Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 45 kg (99 lb 3 oz) | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | ||||||||||||
| Level | elite | ||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2008 - present | ||||||||||||
| Club | Olympiakos rithmos | ||||||||||||
| Gym | Novogorsk | ||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Evgenia Gianîtsopoulou | ||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Larisa Sidorova | ||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Aliya Garayeva, Evmorphina Dona | ||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Ioannis Martos | ||||||||||||
| World ranking |
32 (2016 Season) 21 (2015 Season) 18 (2014 Season) 20 (2013 Season) 27 (2012 Season) 28 (2011 Season) |
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Varvara Filiou (Greek: Βαρβάρα Φίλιου; born December 29, 1994 in Attiki, Greece) is a Greek individual rhythmic gymnast. She is an 8 time (2008-2016) Greek National All-around Champion. She is one of Greece's most successful rhythmic gymnasts.
Filiou's mother Eleonora Marinova is a former Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast and also competed at national level in Greece gymnastics. Filiou took up rhythmic gymnastics at age seven.
Filiou has been a member of the Greek National gymnastics team since 2008 and made her senior debut in 2010. She spends part-time of her training season in Novogorsk in Moscow, Russia.
She has competed at the 2010 World Championships in Moscow where she finished 41st in qualifications and at the 2011 World Championships in Montpellier, France where she qualified for the All-around finals and finished 23rd. She won the silver in all-around at the 2012 Kalamata Cup ahead of Ganna Rizatdinova. She finished 13th in all-around at the 2012 European Championships. Filiou missed qualifying for the 2012 Olympics finishing 11th in London Gymnastics Olympics Test Event.
In 2013, She competed in the 2013 World Cup and 2013 Grand Prix Series. Filiou started her season competing at the 2013 Moscow Grand Prix. She won bronze in all-around at the 2013 Kalamata Cup. At the 2013 European Championships in Vienna, Austria, Filiou qualified to her first event final in ribbon where she finished 8th. She finished 10th in all-around at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia. She won the silver medal in all-around at the 2013 Mediterranean Games. She then competed at the 2013 World Championships where she qualified to her first event final in ribbon finishing 4th behind Belarusian Melitina Staniouta. In the All-around final, Filiou finished 8th at Worlds behind of Ukrainian Alina Maksymenko.
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