Ioannis Georgiadis (fencer)

Ioannis Georgiadis (1897)

Ioannis Georgiadis ( Greek Ιωάννης Γεωργιάδης , born March 29, 1876 in Tripoli ; † March 14, 1960 ) was a Greek fencer.

Georgiadis took part in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 and won the saber fencing competition . At the unofficial interludes in Athens in 1906 , he was again able to win the saber fencing in individual and occupy second place behind the German selection with the Greek saber team.

Georgiadis later became a professor of forensics , founded the Athens morgue and worked for the national criminological laboratory. From 1918 to 1936 he was a member of the board of the Greek National Olympic Committee (intermittently).

Web links

Ioannis Georgiadis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Remarks

↑ In other sources the year of birth 1874 is mentioned, e.g. B. Ιωάννης Γεωργιάδης on criminology-museum.uoa.gr.

personal data
SURNAME	Georgiadis, Ioannis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ιωάννης Γεωργιάδης
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek fencer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tripoli (Greece)
DATE OF DEATH	March 14, 1960

[1] In other sources the year of birth 1874 is mentioned, e.g. B. Ιωάννης Γεωργιάδης on criminology-museum.uoa.gr.