Vassilis Krommidas

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Vassilis Krommidas at the Summer Olympics, 2004
Vassilis Krommidas at the Summer Olympics, 2004
Personal information
Date of birth 4th July 1970 (age 50)
place of birth Thessaloniki
societies
successes
2014 Greek champion triathlon sprint distance
status
resigned

Vassilis Krommidas (born July 4, 1970 in Thessaloniki ) is a former Greek triathlete and two-time Olympian (2000, 2004).

Career

Vassilis Krommidas started swimming at the age of 10 and became a member of the national team. He studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki .

Vassilis Krommidas switched to triathlon in 1989. In 1995 he finished second in the Allgäu Triathlon in the middle distance. When he was 21 at the time, he started his first long distance in Roth in 1991. In the next year he was able to improve his time by an hour and finished tenth in the Ironman Europe (3.8 km swimming, 180 km cycling and 42 km running).

2000 Summer Olympics

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he finished 33rd.
In 2004 he started again at the Summer Olympics, but could not finish the race in Athens after a technical defect on the bike.

Greek champion triathlon sprint distance 2014

In 2014, Vassilis Krommidas became Greek champion on the triathlon sprint distance. In the same year he was runner-up on the duathlon short distance.
Krommidas is 70 times national champion.

He has not appeared internationally since 2014.

Vassilis Krommidas works as a trainer and coach and he led the national team of Greece and Cyprus.

Sporting successes

Triathlon short and medium distance
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
20th June 2014 DNF ETU Triathlon European Championships AustriaAustria Kitzbühel - European championship on the Olympic short distance
May 11, 2014 1 GRE Sprint Triathlon National Championships GreeceGreece Marathonas 01:04:25
29 Sep 2013 3 GRE Triathlon National Championships GreeceGreece Marathonas 02:06:38
Aug 26, 2004 DNF 2004 Summer Olympics GreeceGreece Athens - The race was stopped after technical problems with the bike
0Nov 9, 2002 56 ITU Triathlon World Championships MexicoMexico Cancun 01:59:52
16 Sep 2000 33 2000 Summer Olympics AustraliaAustralia Sydney 01:51:28 for the first triathlon at the Olympic Games (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
04th July 1998 25th ETU Triathlon European Championships AustriaAustria Velden 01:54:39 European triathlon championship on the short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running)
July 22, 1995 2 Allgäu triathlon GermanyGermany Immenstadt 04:31:22 Middle distance
Long distance triathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
0June 8, 1997 8th ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships FranceFrance Nice 05:49:56 at the Triathlon International de Nice
  1994 17th Ironman Hawaii United StatesUnited States Hawaii 08:55:02 Record holder in the 18–24 age group
May 22, 1994 8th Ironman Lanzarote SpainSpain Lanzarote 09:01:20
  1993 4th Austria triathlon AustriaAustria Podersdorf 08:35:22
July 11, 1992 10 Ironman Europe GermanyGermany Roth 08:27:38 personal best time on the Ironman distance
July 13, 1991 Ironman Europe GermanyGermany Roth 09:27
Duathlon
Date / year rank competition venue time comment
16. Mar. 2014 2 GRE Sprint Duathlon National Championships GreeceGreece Marathonas 01:02:05 Second and Greek runner-up, behind Grigoris Skoularikis

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World's leading coaching organization expands its coaching team (January 24, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Krommidas, Vassilis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Thessaloniki