Sideris Tasiadis

Sideris Tasiadis
nation	Germany
birthday	May 7, 1990
place of birth	Augsburg ,  Germany
size	1.79 cm
Weight	79 kg
job	Police officer
Career
discipline	Canoe slalom
Boat class	Canadians (C1)
society	Augsburg Kayak Association (formerly Kanu Schwaben Augsburg)
Trainer	Sören Kaufmann
National squad	since A squad
status	active
Medal table
OS medals 0 × 1 × 0 × Toilet medals 0 × 1 × 3 × World Cup medals 0 × 3 × 1 × JWM medals 2 × 0 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 4 × 1 × U23 European Championship medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JEM medals 4 × 0 × 1 × DM medals 7 × 4 × 6 ×
Olympic games silver 2012 London C1 Canoe World Championships silver 2010 Tacen C1 team silver 2011 Bratislava C1 team silver 2013 Prague C1 team silver 2015 C1 team bronze 2018 Rio de Janeiro C1 European Canoe Championships gold 2012 Augsburg C1 silver 2011 La Seu d'Urgell C1 team silver 2012 Augsburg C1 team silver 2013 Krakow C1 team bronze 2009 Nottingham C1 team silver 2013 Krakow C1 silver 2015 C1
last change: October 3, 2018

Sideris Tasiadis (born May 7, 1990 in Augsburg ) is a German canoeist .

Life

Tasiadis was born in Augsburg in 1990 and grew up in the city. His parents come from Komara near Orestiada in northeast Greece . He started in 2000 with the canoe slalom at the Augsburg kayak club and is now starting for Kanu Schwaben Augsburg , the canoeing department of TSV Schwaben Augsburg . Tasiadis is training to become a law enforcement officer in the sports promotion group of the Bavarian Police.

In 2012, Tasiadis was able to prevail against the national competition and qualified in the single canoe for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , where he won the silver medal. He lived with his girlfriend, the canoeist Claudia Bär , in Augsburg until she died from cancer in 2015.

In 2013 he achieved overall victory in the World Cup category C1 for the first time.

In 2016 he was able to qualify again for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. There he reached the 5th place after the best time in qualification and semi-finals.

At the 2018 World Championships, Tasiadis won the bronze medal in the single canoe (C1).

successes

2008

• Junior World Championship: 1st place C1, 3rd place C1 team

2009

• European Championships: 3rd place C1 Team, 4th place K1
• World Championships: 6th place C1 team

2010

• Junior European Championship: 4th place C1, 1st place C1 team
• European Championships: 4th place C1 team
• World Championships: 2nd place C1 team

2011

• European Championships: 7th place C1, 2nd place C1 team
• World Championships: 9th place C1, 2nd place C1 team
• German championship: 1st place C1

2012

• European Championships: 1st place C1, 2nd place C1 team
• Olympic Games: silver medal (2nd place C1)
• German championship: 1st place C1

2013

• Overall World Cup winner 2013
• World Championships: 4th place C1, 2nd place C1 team
• European Championship: 2nd place C1, 2nd place C1 team
• German championship: 1st place C1

2014

• European Championship: 7th place C1

2015

• World Championship: 2nd place C1 team
• European Championship: 2nd place C1, 6th place C1 team

2016

• Olympic Games: 5th place C1

2018

• World Championship: 3rd place C1

Web links

Commons : Sideris Tasiadis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Brief introduction to the DKV
• Sideris Tasiadis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Canoeing competition slalom canoeing Tasiadis wins silver
2. ↑ Overall victory in the Canadian competition at the 2013 World Cup ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )