Career
Vougiouka took up fencing at the relative late age of 14. She first competed in foil and switched to sabre in 2005. She climbed her first podium in the Fencing World Cup with a gold medal in Budapest in 2010, the first victory at a World Cup event in the history of the Greek fencing.
She made her breakthrough in the 2011-2012 season, earning a gold medal in the London World Cup and a bronze medal in the Tianjin Grand Prix.
At the European Championships in Legnano she lost to Ukraine"s Olha Kharlan in the final and took a silver medal. She competed in the individual event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
She broke two of her front teeth during her T16 bout when her mask collided with that of Poland"s Aleksandra Socha. Twenty minutes later she fenced of Korea"s Kim Ji-Yeon in the quarter-final.
The pain from her injury forced her to keep her mouth shut, which impeded her breathing.
After taking an 8–3 lead she was eventually defeated 12–15 and finished 5th. She finished the season Number.5 in world rankings. Foreign her Olympic performance she was named best athlete of the year by the Greek press
In the 2012-2013 season she took a bronze medal in the Antalya World Cup and the Moscow Grand Prix.
She claimed her second continental silver medal in a row at the European Championships in Zagreb, losing again to Olha Kharlan in the final. At the World Championships in Budapest Vougiouka was stopped in the quarter-finals to Italy"s Irene Vecchi.
At the European Championships in Strasbourg she was defeated in the semi-finals by Russia"s Yekaterina Dyachenko and came away with a bronze medal. At the World Championships in Kazan she was edged out 14–15 by Russia"s Yana Egorian in the quarter-finals.
Vougiouka finished world Number.4, her best ranking to date.
Vougiouka studied dentistry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
