Afroditi Skafida

Afroditi Skafida — Biography

Afroditi Skafida is a former Greek pole vaulter who represented Greece at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics. She won the Greek outdoor title four times and the indoor title three times, and set eight Greek records across the youth and senior women's categories. With a degree in physical education and sport science, she works as a track-and-field and fitness coach, and in 2019 she also appeared on television through the reality show Survivor.

Born in Athens, Skafida competed for Olympiacos and later for AEK. At the 2004 Athens Olympics she was the host nation's pole vaulter; despite the home crowd's support she failed to clear 4.00 meters in qualifying and recorded no mark. In 2008 she set two Greek records (4.50 and 4.55 meters) and held the fourth-best performance in Europe and the ninth-best in the world that season. At the Beijing Olympics the same year she cleared 4.30 meters and placed nineteenth, level with Poland's Joanna Piwowarska and Portugal's Sandra-Helena Tavares, and did not reach the final. She took third place at the 2006 World Cup and also finished third at the Mediterranean Games, and on January 30, 2010, she set another national record, 4.41 meters, at an indoor meeting.

From February to June 2019 she competed on Survivor in the Greek team and reached the final; in 2023 she took part in Survivor All Star.