Dionysios Georgakopoulos

Dionysios Georgakopoulos
Personal information
Full name Dionysios Georgakopoulos
Nationality  Greece
Born (1963-04-16) 16 April 1963
Athens, Greece
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air pistol (AP60)
50 m pistol (FP)
Club Ethnikos G.S.[1]

Dionysios Georgakopoulos (Greek: Διονύσιος Γεωργακόπουλος; born April 16, 1963 in Athens) is a Greek sport shooter.[2] He has been selected to compete for Greece in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has won a total of two medals, a gold and a silver, in pistol shooting at a major international competition, spanning the 2001 and 2003 ISSF World Cup series.[1] Georgakopoulos is also a member of the shooting team at Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos (English: Ethnikos Sports Gym) in his native Athens.[1]

Georgakopoulos' Olympic debut came as a 37-year-old at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he finished seventeenth in the air pistol, and sixteenth in the free pistol, producing aggregate scores of 576 and 557 respectively.[3][4][5]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Georgakopoulos was named as part of the host nation's shooting team on his second consecutive Games, competing in both air and free pistol.[6] Although Greece had reserved a place in air pistol shooting, he managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 556 to fill in the quota from his runner-up finish at the 2003 ISSF World Cup meet in Changwon, South Korea.[1][7][8] In his first event, the 10 m air pistol, Georgakopoulos fired a score of 572 to force a three-way tie with Spain's José Antonio Colado and Namibia's Friedhelm Sack for a distant thirty-third position, just four points away from his 2000 Olympic feat.[9] Three days later, in the 50 m pistol, Georgakopoulos shot a lowly 549 in the prelims to notch a twenty-eighth place draw with Thailand's Jakkrit Panichpatikum, ruling out of his contention for an Olympic final in front of the home crowd.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Dionissios Georgakopoulos". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Dionissios Georgakopoulos". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 50m Pistol" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 62–64. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's 10m Air Pistol" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 59–61. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Nancy Johnson wins first gold of Sydney Games". Canoe.ca. 16 September 2000. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Kostas, Sotirios (28 April 2002). "Το ολυμπιακό βάθρο σημαδεύουν οι σκοπευτές" [Shooters aimed for the Olympic podium] (in Greek). To Vima. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Samaresh Jung misses quota place". The Hindu. 3 July 2003. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "Shooting: Men's 10m Air Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  10. ↑ "Shooting: Men's 50m Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
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