Georgios Papasideris
Olympic medal record | ||
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1896 Athens | Shot put |
Georgios Papasideris (Greek: Γεώργιος/Γιώργος Παπασιδέρης, 1875 – 1920) was a Greek athlete and weightlifter.[1]
Career[]
Papasideris was born in Koropi.
He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He competed in the shot put, placing third. His best throw was 10.36 metres.
Papasideris also threw the discus, placing somewhere between fifth and last (ninth) place.
In the two-handed weightlifting event, now known as clean and jerk, Papasideris tied for fourth place with Carl Schuhmann of Germany. They had both lifted 90.0 kilograms.
References[]
- ^ "Georgios Papasideris". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
External links[]
- Georgios Papasideris' profile at databaseOlympics
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Georgios Papasideris". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-08-03.
Categories:
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1896 Summer Olympics
- 19th-century sportsmen
- Weightlifters at the 1896 Summer Olympics
- Greek male discus throwers
- Olympic athletes of Greece
- Olympic weightlifters of Greece
- Olympic bronze medalists for Greece
- Greek male shot putters
- Greek male weightlifters
- 1875 births
- 1920 deaths
- Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Greek athletics biography stubs
- Greek Olympic medalist stubs