Konstantinos Tsiklitiras

Konstantínos " Kostis " Tsiklitíras (Greek Κωνσταντίνος " Κωστής " Τσικλητήρας, born October 30, 1888 in Pylos, † February 10, 1913 ) was a Greek athlete and Olympic champion.

Born in Pylos Tsiklitiras is one of the best Greek athletes of all time. To date, he is the only Greek athlete who was able to win medals at two different Olympics. By his untimely death ended his career without that he could exploit its possibilities.

Beginning of the 20th century drew Tsiklitirias to Athens in order to record a degree in economics. After he discovered his extraordinary sporting talent in Athens, he enrolled at the grassroots club Panathinaikos Athens. There he went to especially athletics next to the football and water polo. 1908 and 1912 he participated at the Olympic Games in each of the disciplines of the long jump and high jump from the state of the prior part. While it was enough merely to two silver medals at the Games in London, Tsiklitiras won four years later in Stockholm the gold medal in the standing long jump and bronze in the state high jump.

In addition to his four Olympic medals Tsiklitiras also won 19 national championships. 1913, a year after his triumph in Sweden, is Tsiklitiras reported as a volunteer for the front of the Balkan War and died there at the age of 25 years to meningitis.

Honors

• His addition to the national championships, athletics competitions in honor in Greece each year, held that bear his name.
• An ATR -42 with the registration SX- BIM, the Greek airline Olympic Airlines, bears the Christian name of Tsiklitiras the fuselage.