Dionysios Georgakopoulos

Dionysios Georgakopoulos (Greek: Διονύσιος Γεωργακόπουλος; born 16 April 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]

Dionysios Georgakopoulos
Personal information
Full nameDionysios Georgakopoulos
Nationality Greece
Born (1963-04-16) 16 April 1963
Athens, Greece
Height1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)10 m air pistol (AP60)
50 m pistol (FP)
ClubEthnikos G.S.[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 got 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. "ISSF Profile – Dionissios Georgakopoulos". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dionissios Georgakopoulos". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. 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. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. 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. Archived from the original on 26 September 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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