Anna Ntenta

Ambition: To compete at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. (paralympic.org, 10 Aug 2023) Awards: She and Grigoris Polychronidis were named Para Team of the Year at the 2021 PSAT Top Athletes Awards in Greece. (Facebook profile, 22 Dec 2023) She was co-flag bearer for Greece at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (paralympic.org, 10 Aug 2023) In 2015 she and fellow Greek boccia players Nikolaos Pananos and Grigorios Polychronidis were named the Team of the Year with an Impairment by the Panhellenic Association of Sports Press [PSAT] in Greece. (paralympic.org, 04 Jan 2016) Additional Info: IMPROVING ON BRONZE She won bronze medals in mixed BC3 pairs at both the 2016 and 2020 Paralympic Games, and hopes to improve with a different colour medal at the 2024 Games in Paris. "We hope to do better. Of course, the athlete is not satisfied, and we have to do better. I hope to win something better - not bronze. Bronze is not too bad, but something better would be amazing. It is my dream to make my country proud and my family proud, and to give myself the satisfaction that I won a medal - a gold medal." (paralympic.org, 28 Mar 2024)

Sporting Relatives: Her mother Christina serves as her assistant, including at the 2016 and 2020 Paralympic Games. (paralympic.org, 10 Aug 2023; paralympic.org, 28 Mar 2024)