Athanassios "Thanasis" Tsakiris (Greek: Αθανάσιος "Θανάσης" Τσακίρης) (born 15 January 1965 in Drama, Greece) is a Greek biathlete and cross-country skier. He competed for Greece at five Olympics in 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, and 2010 in cross country skiing and biathlon. He was selected to be his nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
His daughter Panagiota Tsakiri competed for Greece in cross-country at the 2006 Olympics (as a fifteen-year-old) and in biathlon at the 2010 Olympics.
References
- FIS Profile Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- "Biathlon World Profile". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
- Athanasios Tsakiris at Sports Reference
- Vancouver 2010 Profile Archived February 15, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- "Hellenic Olympic Committee". Archived from the original on 2010-02-15. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
- "Panagiota Tsakiri Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". Archived from the original on 2012-01-14. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
- "Panagiota Tsakiri - Olympic Athletes - 2010 Winter Olympics - Vancouver, Canada - ESPN".
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- 1965 births
- Greek male biathletes
- Greek male cross-country skiers
- Olympic biathletes for Greece
- Olympic cross-country skiers for Greece
- Biathletes at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Drama, Greece
- 20th-century Greek sportsmen
- European cross-country skiing biography stubs
- Greek winter sports biography stubs
- European biathlon biography stubs