Athanasios Tsakiris

Athanasios Tsakiris
Full name	Αθανάσιος Τσακίρης
Association	Greece
birthday	January 15, 1965
place of birth	drama
Career
job	PE teacher
society	EOS dramas
Trainer	Kasapis
Admission to the national team	1988
Debut in the World Cup	1988
status	not active
End of career	2016
World Cup balance
last change: August 11, 2012

Athanasios "Thanasis" Tsakiris ( Greek Αθανάσιος "Θανάσης" Τσακίρης , born January 15, 1965 in Drama ) is a Greek cross-country skier and biathlete . Tsakiris is one of the "veterans" of biathlon. He ran his first of five Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 as a cross-country skier. In addition, he participated in various biathlon world championships from 1989 in Feistritz to 2008 in Östersund .

Athanasios Tsakiris lives and trains in Drama and competes for EOS Dramas . The sports teacher, who trains himself, is married, has two children and speaks German. At first he was a cross-country skier. As such, he was part of the Greek national team since 1983 and took part in the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary. He finished 72nd over 15 kilometers and 76th over 30 kilometers. For the 1988/89 season he switched to biathlon, but has also competed in cross-country competitions again and again, especially since the second half of the 2000s. The Greek contested his first race at a sprint in Les Saisies , where he finished 75th. In the same season, Tsakiris started at the 1989 World Cup in Feistritz. There he came in individual on the 71st place. In his second 1992 Olympic Games of Albertville his first performance at the biathlon and was 79th in the sprint and 42 of function SINGLE. In addition, the Greek was used in the 4x10 kilometer cross-country relay and was 16 with her. In the following years he had his best sporting phase. In the 1993/94 season Tsakiris was first 38th a sprint in Pokljuka , a little later he ran in the individual of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer on 37th place. It was also Tsakiris' best World Cup result. At his third Olympic Winter Games in 1998 from Nagano to the ranks 65 in the individual and 58 in the sprint. After the games, the Greek initially ended his career.

At the end of 2005, Tsakiris initially dared to make a comeback in cross-country skiing. He competed here in FIS races and in the context of the Alpine Cup, but did not achieve any results worth mentioning. At the end of the 2005/06 season , the Greek started again in the Biathlon European Cup and started in Gurnigel with a respectable 16th place in the sprint. For the 2006/07 season he is also back in the World Cup. At the Biathlon World Championships in 2007 in Antholz he was able to achieve respectable successes with 84th place in the individual as well as in 2008 in Östersund with the 83rd in individual and sprint and was the best Greek starter. He finished second at the cross-country skiing Balkan championships in Mavrovo in 2007 over 10 kilometers and missed a medal over 5 kilometers in fourth place, a year later he won the title over 30 kilometers at the Greek championships in Metsovo .

Athanasios Tsakiris took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics. In the individual he was 80. He was the second oldest participant in Vancouver after Hubertus von Hohenlohe . At 45 years and 34 days, he was the oldest biathlete to ever take part in the Olympic Games when he last started. Like four years before, his daughter Panagiota Tsakiri also took part in the games as a biathlete.

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					2	2
Starts	22nd	21st			2	45
Status: after the 2011/2012 season

Web links

• Athanasios Tsakiris in the IBU database (English)
• Athanasios Tsakiris in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Athanasios Tsakiris in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )