Konstadinos Gatsioudis
Konstantinos Gatsioudis (also Konstadinos, or Konstantinos Kostas; Greek Κωνσταντίνος Γκατσιούδης, born December 17, 1973 in Didymoticho ) is a Greek athlete who as a javelin thrower stepped in the early 1990s in appearance and even after 2000 was successful. He won at the World Championships three times in a row a medal.
His personal best is 91.69 meters, thrown in 2000 in Kuortane.
He started for the following clubs:
- Spartacus of Didymoteichon
- Panhellenicos (from 1998)
He is 1.88 m tall and weighed 94 kg in his playing days.
Career
His first international appearance was the 18 -year-old in 1992 at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Seoul, where he met with a throw of 75.92 m bronze medal behind the Finn Aki Parviainen ( gold with 76.34 meters ) and the German Boris Henry (Silver won with 76.04 m). In the same year he was victorious with 77.04 m at the Balkan Games in Sofia.
The World Championships in Stuttgart in 1993 and the European Championships in Helsinki in 1994 were eligible for Gatsioudis but still too early. He missed both times with 76.70 m and 78.56 m the qualifications required width of 81 meters clear.
The European Championships in 1994 should remain his only European Championships. 2002 in Munich, he was not at the start, though he ranked with 91.23 m second place in the annual global leaderboard.
In Olympic Games, he had pronounced pitch. In Atlanta in 1996, he threw in the qualification with 87.12 m personal best. With this length, he would have won the bronze medal ahead of the Finn Seppo Räty. In the final, but he did not come over 81.46 meters out and ended up in 10th place
Four years later, he led with 91.69 m at the annual World leaderboard. At the games in Sydney in 2000 but he remained in the final with 86.53 m good five meters below this range and only came in at number six. The cast in the qualifiers 88.41 m would, however, not enough for a medal as the third place, the Russian Sergei Makarov, 88.57 m threw.
Medal success was for Gatsioudis however at World Championships, not least because he was able to increase all three times in the final itself. He again won bronze at the 1997 World Championships bronze at the 1999 World Championships silver at the World Championships in 2001. 1999 and 2001 he was defeated with throws of 89.18 m and 89.95 m respectively the Finn Aki Parviainen, but he was able in 1999 ahead of Jan Zelezny, place the gold medal winner from 2001, he in the same year in the final of the Grand could defeat Prix in Munich again ( 89.84 m compared to 87.71 m):
- World Cup 1997 in Athens: 1 Marius Corbett ( RSA) with 88,40 m, 2 Steve Backley (USA) 86.80 m, 3 Kostas Gatsioudis with 86.64 m ( Qualif.: 83,32 m)
- 1999 World Cup in Seville: 1 Aki Parviainen (FIN ) with 89,52 m, 2 Kostas Gatsioudis with 89,18 m ( Qualif.: 89,18 m), 3 Jan Zelezny (CZE ) with 87.67 m.
- 2001 World Championships in Edmonton 1 Jan Zelezny with 92,80 m, Aki Parviainen second with 91.31 m, 89.95 m 3 Kostas Gatsioudis with ( Qualif.: 87,81 m).
Even in competitions at the European Cup Gatsioudis could place several times and even scored a victory:
Gatsioudis won five national championships:
In Dimitrios Polymerou he had a strong competitor in its own country. His biggest in the truest sense of the word victory over him he had 1997 in the Mediterranean Games in Bari, where he threw 89.22 m excellent, while Polymerou only came to 77.88 m.
His performance development shows that he reached the peak of his towards the end of his career: