Nikos Anastasiadis (athlete)

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Nikos Anastasiadis Cross-country skiing biathlon
Full name Nikolaos Anastasiadis
Greek Νικόλαος Αναστασίαδης
nation GreeceGreece Greece
birthday July 16, 1966
place of birth Naousa
Career
discipline Cross-country skiing
biathlon
status resigned
End of career 1995
 

Nikolaos "Nikos" Anastasiadis ( Greek Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Αναστασίαδης , born July 16, 1966 in Naousa ) is a Greek cross-country skier and biathlete . He took part in three Winter Olympics.

Nikos Anastasiadis was part of the Greek national team in cross-country skiing between the end of the 1980s and the mid-1990s and also started sporadically in biathlon. In 1988 he took part in the Olympic Games in cross-country skiing in Calgary for the first time and finished 82nd over 30 kilometers. He did not finish the race over 15 kilometers. Four years later in Albertville he was 99th over 10 kilometers, 82nd in the pursuit and with Dimitrios Tsourekas , Timoleon Tsourekas and Thanasis Tsakiris 16th in the relay race. He did not finish the 30-kilometer race. He also started in biathlon with Tsakiris, making him the first Greek to ever take part in Olympic biathlon competitions. In the individual, he finished 92nd and last place. In 1994 Anastasiadis took part in his third Olympic Games. At the competitions in Lillehammer he came in 86th place over 10 kilometers, was 68th over 30 kilometers and 73rd in the pursuit. The last international championship was the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1995 in Thunder Bay . The Greek was 72nd in the pursuit, 93rd over 10 kilometers and 64th over 50 kilometers.

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