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Also: Greece: People: By occupation: Sportspeople by sport: Athletes Wikimedia Commons has media related to Athletics competitors from Greece . This category is for competitors within the sport of athletics , comprising track and field , road running , cross country running and racewalking .
It is not one of the most popular sports in Greece, but it has its followers. Famous Greek fighters include: 'Iron' Mike Zambidis who is a former 18-time world kickboxing champion. Kickboxing however is more popular amongst Greeks of Diaspora, especially in Melbourne, Australia, which has produced several superstars of the sport, such as:
Athlete Date Meet Place Ref. 100 m: 10.11 (+1.4 m/s) Angelos Pavlakakis: 2 August 1997 World Championships: Athens, Greece 150 m (straight) 15.04 (+0.4 m/s) Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas: 26 May 2017 Great CityGames Manchester: Manchester, United Kingdom [1] 200 m: 19.85 (−0.5 m/s) Konstantinos Kenteris: 9 August 2002 European Championships ...
Leonidas (d.480 BCE), Spartan king, killed defending Greece from the Persians Bust of Leonidas I, famed king of Sparta who led his troops at the Battle of Thermopylae against a Persian invasion of the Greek city states, perhaps most famous for having told the Persian King Xerxes his "Molon labe", or "Come and take them", when ordered to ...
Category: Greek sportspeople by sport. 15 languages. ... Greek athletes (22 C) Greek athletics coaches (2 P) B. Greek badminton players (3 C) Greek baseball players ...
Pyrros Dimas is the top Greek Olympic medalist having won three gold and one bronze medal in weightlifting. Konstantinos Tsiklitiras has won four Olympic medals in athletics and ties Pyrros Dimas for the Greek athlete with the most Olympic medals won in total. Sofia Bekatorou, with a gold (2004) and a bronze medal (2008) in sailing.
The list of the most famous athletes in the world is dominated by footballers, and no athlete is more famous than one particular Real Madrid player.
Pages in category "Greek male athletes" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Nikolaos Andreadakis; C.