Nikos Kaklamanakis
Personal information
Full nameNikolaos Kaklamanakis
Born19 August 1968 (1968-08-19) (age 55)
Athens, Greece
Medal record
Men's sailing / windsurfing
Representing  Greece
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta Mistral
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Mistral
Windsurfing World Championships
Gold medal – first place1996 HaifaMistral
Gold medal – first place2000 Mar del PlataMistral
Gold medal – first place2001 VarkizaMistral
Silver medal – second place1995 Port ElizabethMistral
Silver medal – second place2003 CádizMistral
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place1993 Languedoc-RoussillonMistral

Nikolaos "Nikos" Kaklamanakis (Greek: Νικόλαος Κακλαμανάκης, born 19 August 1968, in Athens) is the Greek Gold-medal winner who lit the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was named one of the 1996 Greek Male Athletes of the Year.

Kaklamanakis participated in five consecutive Olympic Games from 1992 to 2008, reaching the medal race in all five of them.[1] He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, while he was ninth in Barcelona (1992), sixth in Sydney (2000) and eighth in Beijing (2008).

Biography

One of the most popular athletes in Greece, Nikolaos Kaklamanakis is a three-time Mistral class windsurfing world champion and a gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Sailing. He won silver in the event at the 2003 World Championships in Cádiz, Spain, behind Przemek Miarczynski of Poland. In the 2000 Summer Olympics he took the 6th place, while in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Kaklamanakis took the silver medal behind Gal Fridman of Israel. Four years later, in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games he finished 8th in the RS:X Men Sailing Race.

Selected achievements

Medal Event Year
GoldEuropean Championship (Mistral)1994
SilverIMCO World Championship1995
GoldAustralasian Championship (Mistral)1995
GoldIMCO World Championship1996
GoldAtlanta Olympics1996
GoldAthens EUROLYMP1998
GoldMistral World Championship2000
BronzeInternational ASA Windsurfing Championship2001
GoldMistral World Championship2001
SilverISAF World Championship2003
SilverAthens Olympics2004

References

  1. "Ο Νίκος Κακλαμανάκης καταγγέλλει: «Τέσσερις από τις έξι συμμετοχές μου στους Ολυμπιακούς διώκονται". 13 August 2021.


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