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Sofia Sakorafa ( , born April 29, 1957) is a former javelin thrower from Greece .1She was born in Trikala .2She broke the world record on 1982-09-16 with a throw of 74.20 metres. That mark stood as a Greek record until the new javelin was introduced in 1999 . Sakorafa 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 . Sakorafa is currently a physical education teacher. Besides athletics, she is also a political activist and has espoused several causes in her lifetime including world peace, women's rights, and Palestinian rights. Sakorafa has served on the City Councils of Athens and Maroussi . She also nearly won a seat in the Hellenic Parliament under the banner of PASOK . Sakorafa stirred controversy in 2004 when she became a Palestinian citizen and applied at the last minute for a berth on the Palestinian Olympic team at the age of 47. She made her debut representing Palestine in Chania, Crete, on June 28, 2004 - her performance was 47.23. Despite the fact that her gesture to participate as a Palestinian was symbolic, the IAAF ruled her ineligible for the 2004 Summer Olympics .3
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Sofia Sakorafa ( , born 29 April 1957) is a politician and a former javelin thrower from Greece . She was born in Trikala .
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Sofia Sakorafa ( , born 29 April 1957) is a Palestinian-Greek politician and former javelin thrower .She was formerly 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 now serves as a deputy speaker in the Hellenic Parliament for the MeRA25 party.
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Greek politician and athlete 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).
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Greek politician and athlete Sofia Sakorafa ( Greek : Σοφία Σακοράφα , 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).
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former javelin thrower from greece
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greek-palestinian politician and former javelin thrower
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