Anna Stylianou
Anna Stylianou is a Cypriot swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. Stylianou made her official debut, as a 14-year-old, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed forty-fourth overall in the Swimming at the [2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle|women's 100 m freestyle], with a time of 59.08 seconds.
Eight years after competing in her last Olympics, Stylianou qualified for her second Cypriot team, as a 22-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. In the Swimming at the [2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre freestyle|200 m freestyle], Stylianou challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including freestyle relay champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands. She snared the third spot and twenty-seventh overall by three hundredths of a second Austria's Jördis Steinegger in 2:00.55. In her second event, Swimming at the 2008 [Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle|100 m freestyle], Stylianou finished sixth on the same heat and thirty-sixth overall by 0.03 of a second behind Iceland's Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir, lowering her Olympic time to 56.38.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Stylianou qualified only for the Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's [200 metre freestyle|200 m freestyle] in a B-standard entry time of 2:00.88. She challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including four-time Olympian Hanna-Maria Seppälä of Finland and former Olympic champion Camelia Potec of Romania. Stylianou raced to fourth place by more than half a second behind Mexico's Liliana Ibanez, outside her entry time of 2:01.87. Stylianou failed to advance into the semifinals, as she matched her overall position from Beijing in the preliminary heats.