Ioannis Theofilakis

Ioannis Theofilakis (also Theophilakis , Greek Ιωάννης Θεοφιλάκης , * 1879 in Sparta ; † 1968 ) was a Greek sports shooter who took part in six Olympic Games .

Life

Theofilakis, who was born in Sparta, was a successful attorney in Athens before his Olympic debut in 1896. He and his brother Alexandros Theofilakis were passionate hunters . With his brother he also took part in all Olympic shooting competitions in pistol and rifle shooting until 1924. During the First World War , Theofilakis served in the army. From 1936 to 1940 he lived in exile on Folegandros for political reasons , as Ioannis Metaxas reigned. His great wealth was lost after World War II and the Greek Civil War , so he had to work in a small law firm until the end of his career. He died after a hunting trip and is buried in the Metamórfosi cemetery.

He married twice. With his first wife Angeliki Travarsaro he had a son: Elias Theofilakis (1928–2008). His second wife became Konstandina Rodopoulou. With her he had four daughters (Anastasia, Alexandra, Dionysia and Sofia).

Olympic games

At the Summer Games in Athens in 1896 he competed with free rifles over 300 meters , no result has been reported, the only thing certain is that Theofilakis did not make it into the top five. He also competed with the military rifle over 200 meters, with 30 out of 40 possible hits and 1261 points, ninth.

At the interludes in 1906, also in Athens, he competed with the free rifle over 300 meters, the 1873 military rifle and the military rifle over 300 meters. In the free rifle competition, he finished 28th with 29 out of 30 possible hits and 156 points. In the 1873 military rifle shooting, he ended up in last, 31st place, with only 15 of 30 possible hits and 68 points. In the military rifle shooting over 300 meters he gave up in between.

At the Summer Games in London in 1908 , he competed in four competitions: in the pistol competition and in the team pistol competition as well as in team rifle shooting and military rifle shooting for teams. In his only individual competition in 1908, he reached 29th place with 406 points. In pistol shooting for teams he reached 7th and last place in a team with Frangiskos Mavrommatis , his brother Alexandros Theofilakis and Georgios Orfanidis , as they could only reach 1576 points. In team shooting with a free rifle over 300 meters, his team with Matthias Triantafyllidis , Alexandros Theofilakis, Georgios Orfanidis, Defkalion Rediadis and Frangiskos Mavrommatis was also in the last of 9 places with 3789 points. Theofilakis scored 712 points. Theofilakis also entered the military rifle competition in 1908. The same team achieved 7th place - out of eight - with 1999 points.

At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm he appeared in 12 of the 18 competitions. Here are his results:

competition	space	Points	comment
free pistol, 50 meters	18th	441
free pistol, 50 meters, team	5	1731	in the team with Mavrommatis, A. Theofilakis and Konstantinos Skarlatos last place
Rapid fire pistol 30 meters	23	269 29 results
Rapid fire pistol 30 meters, team	5	1057 115 results	in a team with Mavrommatis, Skarlatos, A. Theofilakis, Nikolaos Levidis and Anastasios Metaxas
Military rifle 300 meters	75	63
Military rifle 200 meters	34	79
Military rifle team	7th	1445	in a team with Mavrommatis, A. Theofilakos, Levidis, Spyridon Mostras and Iakovos Theofilas
Small caliber 50 meters	32	172
Small bore 50 meters, team	6th	708	in a team with Mavrommatis, Theofilas and Levidis last
Small bore moving target	21st	214 23 results
Small caliber moving target, team	4th	716	in a team with Mavrommatis, Theofilas and Levidis last
Single shot moving target	30th	24

At the Olympic Summer Games in Antwerp in 1920 he was second with the team in rapid fire shooting with 1285 points. He was also fourth with the team in the free rifle (2240 ​​points), in the inclined military rifle shooting over 300 meters of the teams eleventh (270 points), over 600 meters seventh with 270 points, in the team military rifle shooting (300 meters) 13th with 209 points and in Combination shooting with the military rifle with the seventh team with 553 points and in small-caliber shooting for the 10th team with 1727 points.
In the individual competitions in 1920 he competed in shooting with the free rifle (10th place, 462 points), with the inclined military rifle (fourth, 59 points - here Theofilakis could even have become Olympic champion through a shoot-off, he lost the shoot-off but with 55 points), and with the small caliber (placement not known).

At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 , he entered the free rifle competition with the team. The team finished twelfth with 526 points. Theofilakis competed individually in rapid fire, where he reached 43rd place with 13 hits; at the Free Rifle, here he was 41st with 78 hits; and with the small caliber, where he was also able to achieve 41st place (with 376 points).

Web links

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