Ilias Iliadis
![]() Iliadis at the 2008 Olympics Parade of Nations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Birth name | Jarji Zviadauri | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 10 November 1986 Akhmeta, Kakheti, Georgian SSR, USSR (modern Georgia) | (age 35)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ilias Iliadis (Greek: Ηλίας Ηλιάδης, born Jarji Zviadauri, Georgian: ჯარჯი ზვიადაური, on 10 November 1986) is a Georgian–Greek judoka who has been competing for Greece since the start of his international career. He was named the 2014 Greek Male Athlete of the Year.
He won a gold medal in the half-middleweight (81 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens at age 17. Illiadis also won a gold medal 6 years later at the 2010 World Judo Championships in Tokyo in the −90 kg category.
As Greece's flagbearer, he had the honour of being the first athlete to march into the Bird's Nest Stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Iliadis is a cousin of another Olympic champion, Georgian judoka Zurab Zviadauri, who also won gold at the 2004 Summer Olympic games. Iliadis's family moved to Greece in 2003. He was adopted by Nikos Iliadis.
Achievements[]
Year | Tournament | Venue | Place | Weight class |
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2004 | Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | 1st | Half middleweight (81 kg) |
European Judo Championships | Bucharest, Romania | 1st | Half middleweight (81 kg) | |
2005 | World Judo Championships | Cairo, Egypt | 2nd | Middleweight (90 kg) |
Mediterranean Games | Almeria, Spain | 1st | Middleweight (90 kg) | |
2007 | World Judo Championships | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 2nd | Middleweight (90 kg) |
2009 | Mediterranean Games | Pescara, Italy | 1st | Middleweight (90 kg) |
2010 | World Judo Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 1st | Middleweight (90 kg) |
European Judo Championships | Vienna, Austria | 3rd | Middleweight (90 kg) | |
2011 | European Judo Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 1st | Middleweight (90 kg) |
World Judo Championships | Paris, France | 1st | Middleweight (90 kg) | |
2012 | Olympic Games | London, England | 3rd | Middleweight (90 kg) |
2013 | World Judo Championships | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 3rd | Middleweight (90 kg) |
2014 | World Judo Championships | Chelyabinsk, Russia | 1st | Middleweight (90 kg) |
2015 | European Games | Baku, Azerbaijan | 3rd | Middleweight (90 kg) |
2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro | 17th | Middleweight (90 kg) |
External links[]
- Ilias Iliadis at the International Judo Federation
- Ilias Iliadis at JudoInside.com
- Ilias Iliadis at AllJudo.net (in French)
- Ilias Iliadis at Olympedia
- Ilias Iliadis at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Greek male judoka
- Male judoka from Georgia (country)
- Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Judoka at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic judoka of Greece
- Olympic gold medalists for Greece
- Olympic bronze medalists for Greece
- Naturalized citizens of Greece
- Georgian emigrants to Greece
- Olympic medalists in judo
- World judo champions
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- European champions for Greece
- Judoka at the 2015 European Games
- European Games medalists in judo
- European Games bronze medalists for Greece
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
- Greek people of Georgian descent
- Mediterranean Games medalists in judo
- Greek Olympic medalist stubs
- European judo biography stubs
- Greek martial arts biography stubs
- Georgia (country) martial arts biography stubs