Ioannis Georgiadis

Greek fencer

Ioannis Georgiadis

Georgiadis in 1897

Personal information

Born

29 March 1876 (1876-03-29)
Tripoli, Greece

Died

17 May 1960 (1960-05-18) (aged 84)
Athens, Greece

Medal record

Men's fencing

Representing Greece
Olympic Games
	1896 Athens	Sabre
Intercalated Games
	1906 Athens	Sabre
	1906 Athens	Team Sabre

Ioannis Georgiadis (29 March 1876 – 17 May 1960^[1]) was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 1906 Intercalated Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.^[2]

In 1896 Georgiadis competed in the men's sabre event. In the five-man, round-robin tournament, Georgiadis won all four of his matches. He defeated Georgios Iatridis, Adolf Schmal, Telemachos Karakalos, and Holger Nielsen in succession to win first place.^[3]

Georgiadis later became Professor of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

References

^ Death notice for Georgiadis' funeral, 18 May 1960, reads: "he died yesterday" (i.e. on 17 May 1960)
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ioannis Georgiadis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
^ "Ioannis Georgiadis". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 December 2020.