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Nikolaos "Nikos" Kaklamanakis (Greek: Νικόλαος Κακλαμανάκης, born August 19, 1968, in Athens) is the Greek Gold-medal winner who lit the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was named one of the 1996 Greek Male Athletes of the Year.

Nikos Kaklamanakis
Personal information
Full nameNikolaos Kaklamanakis
BornAugust 19, 1968 (1968-08-19) (age 54)
Athens, Greece
Medal record
Men's sailing / windsurfing
Representing  Greece
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta Mistral
2004 Athens Mistral
Windsurfing World Championships
1996 HaifaMistral
2000 Mar del PlataMistral
2001 VarkizaMistral
1995 Port ElizabethMistral
2003 CadizMistral
Mediterranean Games
1993 Languedoc-RoussillonMistral

Kaklamanakis participated in five consecutive Olympic Games from 1992 to 2008, reaching the medal race in all five of them.[1] He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, while he was ninth in Barcelona (1992), sixth in Sydney (2000) and eighth in Beijing (2008).


Biography


One of the most popular athletes in Greece, Nikolaos Kaklamanakis is a three-time Mistral class windsurfing world champion and a gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Sailing. He won silver in the event at the 2003 World Championships in Cádiz, Spain, behind Przemek Miarczynski of Poland. In the 2000 Summer Olympics he took the 6th place, while in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Kaklamanakis took the silver medal behind Gal Fridman of Israel. Four years later, in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games he finished 8th in the RS:X Men Sailing Race.


Selected achievements


Medal Event Year
GoldEuropean Championship (Mistral)1994
SilverIMCO World Championship1995
GoldAustralasian Championship (Mistral)1995
GoldIMCO World Championship1996
GoldAtlanta Olympics1996
GoldAthens EUROLYMP1998
GoldMistral World Championship2000
BronzeInternational ASA Windsurfing Championship2001
GoldMistral World Championship2001
SilverISAF World Championship2003
SilverAthens Olympics2004

References




Olympic Games
Preceded by
1980 USA Men's Ice Hockey Team
Final Olympic torchbearer
Athens 2004
Succeeded by
Preceded by Final Summer Olympic torchbearer
Athens 2004
Succeeded by
Preceded by Flagbearer for  Greece
Sydney 2000
Succeeded by



На других языках


- [en] Nikolaos Kaklamanakis

[fr] Níkos Kaklamanákis

Nikólaos Kaklamanákis (en grec moderne : Νικόλαος Κακλαμανάκης), souvent appelé Níkos Kaklamanákis (Νίκος Κακλαμανάκης), né le 19 août 1968 à Athènes, est le champion olympique de planche à voile aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1996 d'Atlanta. Il est alors membre du Club nautique de Vouliagmeni[1].

[it] Nikolaos Kaklamanakīs

Nikolaos Kaklamanakīs (in greco: Νικόλαος Κακλαμανάκης; Atene, 19 agosto 1968) è un velista greco, vincitore di una medaglia d'oro e una d'argento ai Giochi olimpici.

[ru] Какламанакис, Никос

Нико́лаос «Ни́кос» Какламана́кис (греч. Νίκος Κακλαμανάκης, 19 августа 1968 (1968-08-19)) — греческий яхтсмен-виндсёрфер, олимпийский чемпион 1996 года и вице-чемпион 2004 года.



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