Athanasios Mantzouranis

Athanasios Mantzouranis
Personal information
Full name Athanasios Mantzouranis
Nickname Thanos
Born 11 April 1982
Thessaloniki, Greece
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 80 kg (176 lb)
Team information
Discipline Track
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter
Infobox last updated on
October 15, 2013

Athanasios Mantzouranis (Greek: Αθανάσιος Μαντζουράνης; born April 11, 1982 in Thessaloniki) is a retired Greek amateur track cyclist.[1] He has won multiple titles in track time trial (kilo), sprint (individual and team), and Keirin at the Greek Championships since 1999, and later represented his nation Greece at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Mantzouranis qualified for the Greek squad in two track cycling events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving a berth for his team based on the nation's selection process from the UCI Track World Rankings. Teaming with Vasileios Reppas and Panagiotis Voukelatos in the men's sprint race, held on the first day of track cycling, Mantzouranis recorded a time of 45.645 and a speed of 59.152 km/h to deliver the Greek trio a tenth-place finish in the prelims.[2] The following day, in men's Keirin, Mantzouranis missed a chance to advance further to the later rounds, after finishing fifth in the opening prelims, third in the repechage, and seventeenth overall from the final standings.[3]

Career highlights

1998
  • 1st Greek Championships (500 m time trial), Novices (GRE)
  • 1st Greek Championships (Sprint), Novices (GRE)
  • 2nd Greek Championships (Pursuit), Novices (GRE)
1999
  • 1st Athens Open Balkan Championships (Team sprint), Sofia (BUL)
  • 1st Greek Junior Championships (Sprint), Greece
  • 1st Greek Junior Championships (Team sprint), Greece
  • 3rd Athens Open Balkan Championships (Sprint), Sofia (BUL)
2000
  • 1st Greek Junior Championships (1 km time trial), Greece
  • 1st Greek Junior Championships (Sprint), Greece
  • 1st Greek Junior Championships (Team sprint), Greece
2001
  • 1st Greek Championships (Sprint), Greece
  • 2nd Greek Championships (Team sprint), Greece
  • 3rd Greek Championships (1 km time trial), Greece
2002
  • 1st Greek Championships (1 km time trial), Greece
2004
  • 1st Athens Open Balkan Championships (1 km time trial), Athens (GRE)
  • 1st Greek Championships (Keirin), Athens (GRE)
  • 2nd Greek Championships (1 km time trial), Athens (GRE)
  • 3rd Athens Open Balkan Championships (Team sprint), Athens (GRE)
2005
  • 2nd Greek Championships (1 km time trial), Greece
  • 2nd Greek Championships (Team sprint), Greece
  • 3rd Greek Road Championships (TTTl), Thiva (GRE)
2006
  • 1st Greek Championships (1 km time trial), Greece
  • 1st Greek Championships (Keirin), Greece
  • 1st Greek Championships (Sprint), Greece
2007
  • 1st Athens Open Balkan Championships (Sprint), Athens (GRE)
  • 1st Athens Open Balkan Championships (Team sprint with Christos Volikakis and Panagiotis Voukelatos), Athens (GRE)
  • 1st Greek Championships (1 km time trial), Greece
  • 2nd Athens Open Balkan Championships (Keirin), Athens (GRE)
  • 2nd Greek Championships (Team pursuit), Greece
  • 3rd Greek Championships (Team sprint), Greece
2008

References

  1. ↑ "Athanasios Mantzouranis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Men's Team Sprint Qualification". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Men's Keirin". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 December 2012.

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