Stella Tsikouna

Stella Tsikouna, whose full name is Styliani Tsikouna, is a Greek athlete born on 19 October 1972 in Chalcis who competed first in the discus throw and later took up tenpin bowling. As a discus thrower she reached a personal best of 65.25 metres in May 2004, which ranks her third among Greek discus throwers, won second place at the 1997 Mediterranean Games and finished fifth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She studied in the United States at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she competed for the UTEP Miners and placed fifth at the 1993 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. After retiring from athletics she began bowling and finished third at the 2014 Mediterranean Bowling Championships in Gibraltar.