title: Kyriaki Kouvari
text: # Kyriaki Kouvari
  
  Kyriaki Kouvari (Greek: Κυριακή Κούβαρη; born January 19, 1984, in Thessaloniki) is a Greek taekwondo practitioner. She won the bronze medal for the heavyweight category at the 2003 World Taekwondo Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
  
  Kouvari competed for the women's heavyweight category (+67 kg) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after defeating Great Britain's Sarah Stevenson for the gold medal at the World Qualification Tournament in Manchester, England. She lost the first preliminary match by a defensive kick from Brazil's Natália Falavigna, with a score of 1–3.
  
  