event club birth_place headercolor weight height pb sport birth_date article_title name
sprint gsk club hartlepool , great britain lightblue 54 kg lb 0 on 1.70 0 on '' -lrb- 2008 -rrb- ' 400 m '' ' : 52.05 s athletics 24 may 1985 alissa kallinikou
 alissa kallinikou
alissa kallinikou

alissa kallinikou -lrb- ; born may 24 , 1985 in hartlepool , great britain -rrb- is a cypriot sprinter , who specialized in the 400 metres .
she set a personal best time of 52.05 seconds , by winning the women 's 400 metres at the 2008 greek national championships in athens , greece , earning her a spot on the cypriot team for the olympics .
kallinikou represented cyprus at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , where she competed for the women 's 400 metres .
she ran in the seventh and final heat against seven other athletes , including jamaica 's shericka williams and russia 's tatiana firova .
she finished the race in fifth place by four tenths of a second -lrb- 0.40 -rrb- ahead of poland 's monika bejnar , with a time of 52.40 seconds .
kallinikou , however , failed to advance into the semi-finals , as she placed twenty-sixth overall , and was ranked below three mandatory slots for the next round .
