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Konstantinos Genidounias (born 3 May 1993) is a Greek water polo player.[1] He was part of the Greek team winning the bronze medal at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships. Genidounias is considered one of the top scorers in the world .His top personal distinction is when he became the top scorer of the Champions League 2018-19 season as he scored 42 goals while in the same year he emerged ninth top player in the world.
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| Born |
3 May 1993 Athens, Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Greek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 87 kg (192 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Driver | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Olympiacos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010–2011 | Palaio Faliro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011–2015 | USC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015–present | Olympiacos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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He was a member of the team that competed for Greece at the 2016 Summer Olympics. They finished in 6th place.[2]
Graduated with a degree of communications from the University of Southern California where he attended from 2011 to 2014 and was a member of the Men's Water Polo Team winning three consecutive NCAA championships with the USC Trojans under head coach Jovan Vavic.
He plays for Greek powerhouse Olympiacos, with whom he won the 2017–18 LEN Champions League.[3][4]
Honours
National team
Silver Medal in 2020 Olympic Games, Tokyo- Silver Medal in 2018 Mediterranean Games, Tarragona
Bronze Medal in 2013 Mediterranean Games, Mersin- Bronze Medal in 2015 World Championship, Kazan
- Bronze Medal in 2016 World League, Huizhou
- Bronze Medal in 2020 World League, Tbilisi
- 4th place in 2016 European Championship, Belgrade
- 4th place in 2017 World Championship, Budapest
- 6th place in 2016 Olympic Games, Rio
Club
Olympiacos
- LEN Champions League: 2017–18 ;runners-up: 2015–16, 2018–19
- Greek Championship: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
- Greek Cup: 2015–16, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
- Greek Super Cup: 2018, 2019, 2020
Trojans
- NCCA Championship: 2012, 2013, 2014
Awards
- Youth European Championship MVP: 2010 Stuttgart
- Peter J. Cutino Award: 2015
- LEN Champions League Top Scorer: 2018–19[5] with Olympiacos
- Ninth Best European Player in the World by total-waterpolo: 2019
- Greek Championship MVP: 2020–21 with Olympiacos
- Greek Cup MVP: 2020–21 with Olympiacos
See also
- Greece men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
References
- Konstantinos Genidounias at FINA
- Konstantinos Genidounias Archived 4 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine at rtve.es
- Olympiacos is back to the Olympos after 16 years. LEN official website. 9 June 2018.
- Πρωταθλητής Ευρώπης ο Ολυμπιακός στο πόλο Archived 20 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. (in Greek)
- Λιακόπουλος, Παναγιώτης. "Ο Γεννηδουνιάς πρώτος σκόρερ του Champions League". Fosonline.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 3 March 2022.
External links
- Kostas Genidounias at FINA
- Kostas Genidounias at Olympics.com
- Kostas Genidounias at Olympedia
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