event club birth_place headercolor weight height pb sport birth_date article_title name
sprint ase douka -lrb- gre -rrb- athens , greece lightblue 70 kg lb 0 on 1.84 0 on '' -lrb- 2008 -rrb- '' ' 400 m '' ' : ' 51.89 s -lrb- 2005 -rrb- 200 m '' ' : 24.68 s athletics 2 july 1974 dimitra dova
 dimitra dova
dimitra dova

dimitra dova -lrb- ; born july 2 , 1974 in athens -rrb- is a greek sprinter , who specialized in the 400 metres .
she won the gold medal for her category at the 2005 mediterranean games in almería , spain , with a time of 52.67 seconds , defeating her compatriot phara anacharsis by three hundredths of a second -lrb- 0.03 -rrb- .
dova represented the host nation greece at the 2004 summer olympics , coincidentally in her home city , where she placed eighth for her national sprint team in the women 's 4 × 400 m relay , with a time of 3:45.70 .
at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , dova competed for the women 's 400 metres this time , as an individual athlete .
she ran in the fifth heat against six other athletes , including american track star sanya richards , who eventually won a bronze medal in the final .
she finished the race in fifth place by nine hundredths of a second -lrb- 0.09 -rrb- behind japan 's asami tanno , with a time of 52.69 seconds .
dova , however , failed to advance into the semi-finals , as she placed twenty-ninth overall and was ranked below three mandatory slots for the next round .
