He was born on October 28, 1971, he is 1.64m tall and belongs to the Panathinaikos Club. He came to Greece from Albania in 1991 and did not take part in weightlifting for a long period of time due to personal problems. He joined the national team in 1995. He has advanced knowledge in training and he is an Officer in the Greek Air force. He is married to Blerta and they had a daughter, Anastasia in...
He was born in Avlona Albania on January 13, 1973, he is 1.60m tall, and he belongs to the Spartakos Club in Ioannina. He is an Officer in the Greek Army and a high school graduate. He came to Greece in January 1991 and his hobbies are music and the cinema. He is married to Argiro and they have a daughter, Sofia (2002). He won 3 silver medals in the World Championships in Athens in 1999 and...
He was born in Athens on November 14. He is 1.72m tall and he belongs to the Olympiakos Club. He is the son of the veteran weightlifter, Panagioti Spirou. His younger brother also practices weightlifting. He won one silver medal in the World Championships in 1999 and one bronze medal in the European Championships in 2002. He came 7th in the Olympic Games in Sidney....
He was born in Esentouki, Russia on February 14, 1966. He returned to his roots in December 1991. He is 1.66m tall, and he belongs to the VAO Club in Thessaloniki. He won the silver medal in Atlanta in 1996 in the 64-kilo category; whereas, 4 years before he was the 5th Olympic Champion achieving the same record as the bronze winner who was lighter in weight. He began his athletic career in 1977 in gymnastics. He...
Born in November, 1973 in Kakavia. He is 1,78m tall and competes in the 94kg category. In 1991, he returned to his roots and joined Spartakos club of Ioannina. In 1996, he won olympic silver in Atlanta. A serious injury forced him out of the Sydney Olympics. He is an Artillery Lieutenant in the Greek Army. ...
Christos Iakovou was born on April 12, in Constantinople. In 1964 persecuted by the Turks, he arrives in Athens and in the same year he becomes the Greek champion with the colors of Panathinaikos to which he belongs by lifting 296 k in the 75 kilo category. In 1967, in Athens, he achieves the Worldwide Cadets Record in develope (category 75k) with 136.5 kilos. In 1968 he breaks the World Record with 139k once again, in meetings...
WEIGHTLIFTING IN GREECE BEFORE 1960 Weightlifting is closely related to the Revival of the Olympic Games. In 1896, weightlifting was included in the Olympic Games in Athens as an official sport without weight categories and with different rules from the current ones. Weight had to be pressed with only one hand – left or right – and with both hands. Alexandros Nikolopoulos and Sotiris Versis, the first two Greek participants, although they were too close, did...
1970-1980 In 1970, two more categories were added: 52kg and 110kg. The greatest lifters of that period were: Zikas, Stefanoudakis, Spyrou, Iakovou, Michailidis, S. Tsoukas, Kanaris, Athanasiadis, Iliadis and Tsikrikonis. At the National Championships, HANTH came up first, followed by Olympiakos and Iraklis Thessaloniki. The only international competition of that year was the one between Greece and Israel, which ended in a dead heat. At the Balkan Games in Turkey, Greece chose not to participate due to...
1960-1970 National Championships were also held in 1964. According to Christos Iakovou’s book: “In 1964, Hellenic Wrestling. Federation decided to hold the 1st Hellenic Wrestling Championships. They were held at Panathinaikos’ Gym under the supervision of the Weightlifting Technical Committee. The championships lasted two days, October 17-18. The clubs that took part were Panathinaikos with 15 athletes, Ethnikos with 7 athletes, Olympiakos with 4 athletes, HANTH with 2 athletes, Dafni Sports Club with 5 athletes, Paradeisos with...
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