NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale women's crew will be well represented at this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo. Kristina Wagner '15 will row for the United States in the double sculls, while incoming first year Christina Bourmpou will sit in a Greece pair.
 
Wagner and her partner Gevvie Stone secured a spot in the Games by capturing the women's double sculls final at the second U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials in April. Wagner's prior international experience includes the 2019 World Rowing Cup, the 2019 Henley Royal Regatta and the 2013 World Rowing Under 23 Championships.
 
At Yale, Wagner stroked the varsity four to a second-place finish in the grand final at the 2015 NCAA Championship, the highest finish for the four at NCAAs in school history.
 
Bourmpou will race with Maria Kyridou in the Greek pair. Bourmpou has considerable international experience, including the World and European Championships. In 2018, she won the gold medal at the Summer Youth Olympics, in Buenos Aires. 
 
Wagner and Bourmpou join an elite group of Yale women's crew Olympians that includes legends of the sport Chris Ernst, Ginny Gilder, Anne Warner, Taylor Ritzel, Ashley Brzozowicz, Tess Gerrand, Jamie Redman and Rachel Jeffers.
 
The rowing competition at the Olympic Games takes place by the waterfront, near central Tokyo, at the Sea Forest Waterway. Racing begins on July 23 with the finals set for July 30.