Athanassios Tsakiris
Appearance
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Athanassios "Thanasis" Tsakiris (Greek: Αθανάσιος "Θανάσης" Τσακίρης) (born 15 January 1965 in Drama, Greece) is a Greek biathlete and cross-country skier.[1][2] He competed for Greece at five Olympics in 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, and 2010 in cross country skiing and biathlon.[3][4] He was selected to be his nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.[5]
His daughter Panagiota Tsakiri competed for Greece in cross-country at the 2006 Olympics (as a fifteen-year-old) and in biathlon at the 2010 Olympics.[6][7]
References
- ^ FIS Profile Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Biathlon World Profile". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
- ^ Athanasios Tsakiris at Sports Reference
- ^ Vancouver 2010 Profile Archived February 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Hellenic Olympic Committee". Archived from the original on 2010-02-15. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
- ^ "Panagiota Tsakiri Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". Archived from the original on 2012-01-14. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
- ^ "Panagiota Tsakiri - Olympic Athletes - 2010 Winter Olympics - Vancouver, Canada - ESPN".
Categories:
- 1965 births
- Greek male biathletes
- Greek male cross-country skiers
- Olympic biathletes for Greece
- Olympic cross-country skiers for Greece
- Biathletes at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Drama, Greece
- European cross-country skiing biography stubs
- Greek winter sports biography stubs
- European biathlon biography stubs