Alexios Kolitsopoulos (Greek: Αλέξιος Κολιτσόπουλος; born April 24, 1975) is a retired amateur Greek Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category.[1] He won a silver medal in the 76-kg division at the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia, and had been selected to the nation's Olympic wrestling team when Greece hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[2] Kolitsopoulos also trained for Iraklis Wrestling Club in Peristeri, under his personal coach Charalampos Cholidis.
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| Full name | Alexios Kolitsopoulos | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Greece | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 April 1975 Athens, Greece | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Greece | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Style | Greco-Roman | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Iraklis Peristeri | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Charalampos Cholidis | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kolitsopoulos qualified for the Greek squad in the men's 74 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He filled up an entry by the International Federation of Association Wrestling and the Hellenic Olympic Committee, as Greece received an automatic berth for being the host nation.[2][3] Amassed the home crowd inside Ano Liossia Olympic Hall, Kolitsopoulos started the prelim pool with a 2–2 victory and no penalty over Azerbaijan's Vugar Aslanov in overtime, before he lost his next matches each to three-time Olympian Tamás Berzicza of Hungary (3–0) and eventual Olympic champion Aleksandr Dokturishvili of Uzbekistan (8–4). Placing third in the pool round and twelfth overall, Kolitsopoulos failedto advance to the quarterfinals.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alexios Kolitsopoulos". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
- ^ a b Με 18 παλαιστές στο ολυμπιακό ταπί της Αθήνας [18 wrestlers in the Olympic mat for Athens] (in Greek). To Vima. 24 March 2002. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
- ^ Abbott, Gary (22 July 2004). "Olympic Games preview at 74 kg/163 lbs. in men's Greco-Roman". USA Wrestling. The Mat. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
- ^ "Wrestling: Men's Greco-Roman 74kg". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
- ^ Ασημένιος ο Νίκος Κακλαμανάκης [Nikolaos Kaklamanakis takes silver] (in Greek). Rizospastis. 26 August 2004. Retrieved 6 August 2014.