SABANIS Leonidas (62kg) Born on October 28, 1971 he is 1.64m tall and belongs to Panathinaikos. He emigrated to Greece in 1991. Personal problems forced him to stay away from weightlifting for a long period of time. He joined the National team in 1995. He has a teacher's license and serves as an officer in the Greek Air Force. He is married to Blerta, and they have one daughter, Anastassia (1995). His best moments so far were...
Maria Christoforidou (60kg) won three gold medals in Sarajevo (World Championships) with 197,5kg (87,5+110) and three more in Tenerife (European Championships) with 185kg (82,5+102,5). At the European Championships, Spanou (75kg) won bronze medal with 187,5kg after taking a silver medal in snatch with 85kg and a bronze in clean & jerk with 102,5kg. At the World Championships in Budapest, Pavlos Saltsidis (110kg) won the bronze medal with 382,5kg after taking 2nd place in snatch with 170kg and 3rd...
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 epidemic...
Modern weightlifting history officially begins on March 28, 1891, when the first weightlifting World Championships were held in London, where 7 athletes representing 6 countries took part. Unofficially, the story goes way back, when people paid to see gigantic men demonstrating their physical power in public places (parks, public squares, etc). According to people’s testimonies, Canadian Louis Sur lifted a 669kg wagon in 1880. American Walter Kennedy lifted from the ground a sphere weighing 600kg, while Czech...
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 not manage to win, because they...
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Although weightlifting is considered to be the main sport of strength and vigour, it was not included in the programme of the Olympic Games in ancient years. Since that time, weightlifting became a way of demonstrating physical strength. Greeks treated top weightlifters as half-gods. Milon of Kroton, whose athletic achievements Pausanias extols in his work “Iliaka”, is a perfect example. He was not the strongest though. Elianos records that Titormos of Etolia carried a huge rock, which...
At the 1980 Olympic Games (Moscow), Dimitris Zarzavatsidis (heavyweight category) lifting the total weight of 347.5kg (155+192.5), and Nikos Iliadis (80kg) lifting the total weight of 345kg (150+195), came up eighth. Yannis Katsaidonis (52kg), with the total weight of 207.5kg, was tenth, like Yannis Sidiropoulos (56kg), with the total weight of 242.5kg, having upgraded the national record five times. Paulos Lespouridis (67.5kg) came up 15th with a total weight of 270kg. At the European Championships (Belgrade), Zarzavatsidis and...
Clubs that still retain weightlifting sections are the following: PGS, EGS, Panathinaikos, Olympiakos, HANTH, AO Sportig, AO Paradeisos Maroussi, AO Kydon, Atlas Kallithea, AONS “Milon”, GS Iraklis Thess., Byzantinos AO, AO Palaimon Korinthos, Aris Nikaia, AO Serres, Atlas Lamia, APSFP “Thiseas”, ASP “Ermis”, GAS “Alketas”, Trifylliakos AOAA, OKA “Arkadi”, Aris Thess., GAS Eleusis, GE Ioannina, AS Filippos Beroia, GAS Arxelaos, GS Eleutherios Venizelos, AGE Zakynthos, Doxa Peuki, Atlas Athens, Pantztzifiakos, Panionios GS, AO Zeugolatio, Panahaiki GE, Spartakos Ioannina,...
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