Ioannis Georgiadis
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 Georgiadis in 1897 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 29 March 1876 Tripoli, Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 May 1960 (aged 84) Athens, Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
