Lefteris fafalis
Lefteris fafalis 
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| Full name | Eleftherios Fafalis Greek Ελευθέριος Φάφαλης |
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 Greece
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| birthday | 17th February 1976 | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Munich, Germany
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| Career | |||||||||||||
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| society | EOS Metsovou | ||||||||||||
| Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 1997 (cross-country skiing) 2002 (biathlon) |
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| Debut in the World Cup | 1999 (cross-country skiing) 2003 [WM] (biathlon) |
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| status | resigned | ||||||||||||
| End of career | 2010 | ||||||||||||
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| World Cup balance | |||||||||||||
| Overall World Cup | 108th ( 2004/05 ) | ||||||||||||
| Sprint World Cup | 54th ( 2004/05 ) | ||||||||||||
| last change: end of career | |||||||||||||
Eleftherios "Lefteris" Fafalis ( Greek Ελευθέριος "Λευτέρης" Φάφαλης , born February 17, 1976 in Munich ) is a former Greek cross-country skier and biathlete . He took part in four Winter Olympics.
Lefteris Fafalis grew up in Germany and is married to the German Olympic cross-country skiing champion Viola Bauer . Both have a daughter born in 2009 and live in Metsovo . He studied sports science at the Technical University of Munich and now works as a data protection officer. Fafalis was active for the EOS Metsovo association. In addition to occasional excursions into biathlon, he primarily devoted himself to cross-country skiing. In Gällivare he took part in the Junior World Championships in Nordic skiing for the first time in 1995 and was 78th in the 10-kilometer classic and 53rd in the 30-kilometer freestyle . A year later it was only used over the 10-kilometer classic in Asiago and was 84.
In January 1997, Fafalis competed in his first men's FIS race in Ramsau , and a little later also his first race in the cross-country Continental Cup . A first high point in his career was participation in the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1997 in Trondheim , where the Greek was 83rd in the 30-kilometer freestyle, 94th in the 10-kilometer classic and 79th in the pursuit. A year later he took part in his first Olympic Games in Nagano . Over the 10-kilometer classic, he finished 86th. In 1999 he took part in his second world championship in Ramsau. He finished 86th over the 10-kilometer classic, was 68th in the pursuit and 57th over the 50-kilometer classic. In December 1999 Fafalis contested with a sprint in Engelberg , in which he was 69th, his first race in the cross-country world cup . In his career he should never compete in races other than sprinting in the World Cup. In 2001 he was able to get close to the points for the first time in Nové Město na Moravě as 36th in a sprint race. This was followed by participation in the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2001 in Lahti . Here he was 68th in the 15-kilometer classic and 50th in the freestyle sprint.
The next highlight was the 2002 Olympic Winter Games of Salt Lake City , where he was standard bearer of Greece during the opening ceremony. In the competitions in Soldier Hollow Fafalis was over 15-kilometer classic 65th, in the freestyle sprint 40th and in the pursuit 68th, where he could not qualify for the second part of the pursuit, the freestyle race. In 2003 he won an FIS race for the first time in Pigadia with a freestyle sprint race. A month later he was 35th freestyle sprint at the 2003 Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme . In 2004 he repeated his victory in the FIS sprint in Pigadia. A little later he was third in a Continental Cup sprint in Forni Avoltri . Fafalis achieved his greatest international success when he was able to finish 17th in a World Cup sprint in Nové Město in 2005 and thus won World Cup points for the first time. In doing so, he reinforced his position as probably the best Greek cross-country skier of his generation. At the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf , he was 40th in the classic sprint and could not build on this performance. In Vernon he was able to win another point in the World Cup in the following 2005/06 season as the 30th of a sprint. In 2006 he again won the sprint in Pigadia , which has now been carried out as part of the Balkan Cup .
This was followed by the Olympic Games of Turin , where Fafalis 2006 only took the freestyle sprint and there at the races in Pragelato plan was 29. At the opening ceremony he was again the flag bearer of Greece. The Greek had more appearances than at the Olympic Games the year before at the 2007 World Championships in Sapporo . In the 15-kilometer freestyle he was 48th, 42nd in the classic sprint and with Grigoris Moschovakos 18th in the freestyle team sprint. In 2008 he again won the Balkca Cup sprint in Pigadia and a little later he became Greek sprint champion in his home town of Metsovo. A year later he was sprint runner-up behind Dimitrios Kappas in Seli , but won the 15-kilometer classic. At the 2009 World Championships in Liberec , the Greek was registered for the sprint, but did not compete. The sprint competitions of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver were the last international championship and the end of his career . In Whistler Olympic Park , he came in 50th place in the classic sprint.
In biathlon, Fafalis contested his first international race in 2003 as part of the European Cup . In Windischgarsten he was 45 in his first sprint. It remained his best result in the racing series. The first international championship was the 2003 European Biathlon Championships in Forni Avoltri, where he was 55th of the individual. This was followed by the 2003 biathlon world championships in Khanty-Mansiysk . In Siberia , Fafalis was 89th in the individual and 82nd in the sprint. It was also his best results in the biathlon world cup , for which he was never able to qualify outside of world championships. In 2005 he took part again in the world championships in Hochfilzen and finished 105th in the individual and 108th in the sprint race.
World Cup statistics
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).
- 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
- Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
- Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
- Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
| placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | Season | total |
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| Starts | 2 | 2 | 4th | |||
| Status: end of career | ||||||
Web links
- Lefteris Fafalis in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Lefteris Fafalis in the database of the IBU (English)
- Lefteris Fafalis in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Fafalis, Lefteris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fafalis, Eleftherios (full name); Φάφαλης Ελευθέριος (full Greek name); Φάφαλης Λευτέρης (Greek short form of the name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek cross-country skier and biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th February 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |