Sofia Sakorafa
Sofia Sakorafa (, born 29 April 1957 in Trikala, Greece) is a Greek-Palestinian politician and former javelin thrower. She was a Member of the European Parliament for Greece as member of the political party MeRA25, having formerly sat for Syriza and before that served, from June 2012 to July 2014, as a Syriza Member of the Hellenic Parliament. She served as a deputy speaker in the Hellenic Parliament for the MeRA25 party. She is the president of Association hellénique d'athlétisme amateur (SEGAS). Education Sakorafa graduated in physical education from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Athletics 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. She won the bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships in Athens. A few days later, on 26 September 1982, at the Greek national championships in Chania, Sakorafa broke the world record with a throw of 74.20 metres. That mark stood as a Greek record until the new javelin was introduced in 1999. In 1983, after winning the Balkan