Ioannis Georgiadis (fencer)
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.
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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 |