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Tour Of Hellas
The International Tour of Hellas is a road bicycle racing stage race. It consists of five stages and is usually held between April and May. The race was first held in 1968 as the ''Antiquities Trophy'', and was later known as the ''Tour of Hellas (or Greece)''. The race was held sporadically from 1968 until 2012. The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) made the race part of the UCI Europe Tour in 2005; the race had previously been held as an amateur event. The race was revived in 2022 as a category 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. ''Cycling Greece'' is the organizing committee for the race in collaboration with the Hellenic Cycling Federation and the local authorities of the hosting cities. History Nikos Kapsokefalos envisioned the organization of the first Tour of Hellas, drawing inspiration from the popularity of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia at the time. The first edition of the race was held in 1968, and was known as the ''Tour of Ancient Monuments''. The firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands. The country consists of nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions, and has a population of approximately 10.4 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilization, being the birthplace of Athenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Culture And Sports (Greece)
The Ministry of Culture and Sports ( el, Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού) is the government department of Greece entrusted with preserving the country's cultural heritage, promoting the arts, and overseeing sport through the subordinate General Secretariat for Sports. The incumbent minister is Lina Mendoni. The Deputy Minister for Modern Culture is Nicholas Yatromanolakis, and the Deputy Minister for Sports is . History This ministry was established in 1971 as the Ministry of Culture and Sciences () and it was renamed the Ministry of Culture () on 26 July 1985. On 7 October 2009, it was merged with the Ministry of Touristic Development to form the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (). It ceased to exist on 21 June 2012, when the Ministry of Tourism was re-established and the culture portfolio was absorbed by the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs to form the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vassili Schpundov
Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy ( Russian: Василий) is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to '' Basil''. It may refer to: * Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425 *Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince from 1425–1462 * Vasili III of Russia Tsar from 1505–1533 * Vasili IV of Russia Tsar from 1606–1610 *Basil Fool for Christ (1469–1557), also known as Saint Basil, or Vasily Blazhenny *Vasily Alekseyev (1942–2011), Soviet weightlifter * Vasily Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Naval officer in the Cuban Missile Crisis *Vasily Boldyrev (1875–1933), Russian general * Vasily Chapayev (1887–1919), Russian Army commander * Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982), Soviet marschal * Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1949), Russian weapons designer and Major General * Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), Stalin's son * Vasili Golovachov (born 1948), Russian science fiction author * Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), Soviet writer and journalist * Vasily Ignatenk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marat Ganeyev
Marat Ganeyev (born 6 December 1964) is a retired track cyclist from Russia, who won the bronze medal for the Soviet Union in the men's points race at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He was a professional road cyclist from 1989 to 1998. Major results ;1983 :1st Prologue Tour Européen Lorraine-Alsace ;1984 :2nd Overall International Tour of Hellas ;1985 :1st Overall Tour du Maroc :2nd Overall International Tour of Hellas ;1986 :1st Stage 8 Olympia's Tour ;1995 :3rd Nationale Sluitingprijs - Putte - Kapellen Nationale Sluitingprijs is a semi classic European bicycle race held annually in Putte (Kapellen), Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racin ... References External links * * 1964 births Living people Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic cyclists for the Soviet Union Russian male cyclists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonas Romanovas
Jonas Romanovas (born 4 August 1957) is a Lithuanian cyclist. He competed in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... References External links * 1957 births Living people People from Klaipėda District Municipality Lithuanian male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Lithuania Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics {{Lithuania-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Zhdanov
Vasily Ivanovich Zhdanov (russian: Василий Иванович Жданов; born 12 January 1963) is a retired Soviet road cyclist. He was part of the Soviet team that won the 100 km team time trial at the 1985 World Championships. He competed in the same event at the 1988 Summer Olympics and finished in seventh place. The same year he won the Milk Race. Zhdanov was born in Russia, but in 1987 graduated from the University of Physical Education in Kiyv (Kharkiv branch), Ukraine, and since the 1980s took various sport and business related positions in Kharkiv and Kiyv. Between 1994 and 1996 he was the head coach of the Ukrainian road racing team, then until 2005 he was a personal assistant of Oleg Blokhin in Ukraine's parliament matters. Between 2005 and 2010 he was responsible for sport and tourism in the city administration of Kharkiv. Since 2011 he is an assistant manager of the Italian racing team Lampre-Merida UAE Team Emirates () is an Emirati road bicycle raci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeni Korolkov
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin". Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is Eugenia or Eugenie. , a common given name in parts of central and northern Europe, is also a variant of Eugene / Eugine. Other male foreign-language variants include: Peo ...
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Asiat Saitov
Asyat Mansurovich Saitov (russian: Асят Мансурович Саитов; born 1 January 1965) is a retired Russian cyclist. He missed the 1984 Summer Olympics due to their boycott by the Soviet Union and competed at the Friendship Games instead, winning a silver medal in the team road race. The same year he won the Tour of Greece and Olympia's Tour. He also won the GP Cuprosan in 1991, Vuelta a Castilla y León in 1992, Vuelta a Mallorca in 1993 and Gran Premio de Llodio in 1994. In 1988 he competed at the Summer Olympics in the 100 km team time trial and in the individual road race and finished in seventh and 51st place, respectively. He is married to Svetlana Masterkova, a Russian Olympic middle distance runner. Major results ;1984 :1st Overall Olympia's Tour ::1st Stage 6 :1st Overall Tour of Greece ;1986 :3rd Overall Peace Race ;1990 :1st Stage 19 Vuelta a España :3rd Trofeo Pantalica ;1992 :1st Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León :1st Road race, National Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragić Borovičanin
Dragić (Cyrillic: Драгић) is a South Slavic surname. It may refer to: * Dalibor Dragić (born 1972), Bosnian Serb footballer * Dragan Dragić (born 1980), Serbian politician * Goran Dragić (born 1986), Slovenian basketball player for the Toronto Raptors, Zoran's brother * Labud Dragić (born 1954), Serbian writer of Montenegrin origin * Mirjana Lehner Dragić (born 1936), Serbian painter * Nedeljko Dragić (born 1936), Croatian animator * Predrag Dragić (1945-2012), Serbian writer * Tanja Dragić (born 1991), Serbian Paralympic athlete * Zoran Dragić (born 1989), Slovenian basketball player for the Anadolu Efes, Goran's brother See also *Dragičević *Dragović *Dragojević Dragojević (Cyrillic: Драгојевић) is a Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian surname derived from a masculine given name Dragoje, and may refer to: * Boris Dragojević (born 1956), Montenegrin painter *Oliver Dragojević (1947–2018), C ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Dragic Serbian surnames Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Kolkhuis Tanke
Pascal, Pascal's or PASCAL may refer to: People and fictional characters * Pascal (given name), including a list of people with the name * Pascal (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name ** Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and theologian Places * Pascal (crater), a lunar crater * Pascal Island (Antarctica) * Pascal Island (Western Australia) Science and technology * Pascal (unit), the SI unit of pressure * Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth * PASCAL (database), a bibliographic database maintained by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information * Pascal (microarchitecture), codename for a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia Other uses * (1895–1911) * (1931–1942) * Pascal and Maximus, fictional characters in ''Tangled'' * Pascal blanc, a French white wine grape * Pascal College, secondary education school in Zaandam, the Netherlands * P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Manders
Henri Manders (born 2 March 1960 in The Hague) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer. Major results ;1982 : 1st Overall Tour of Greece : 1st Drielandenomloop ;1983 : 2nd Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem : 9th Grand Prix Cerami ;1984 : 5th La Flèche Wallonne : 6th Overall Ronde van Nederland : 9th Grand Prix de Wallonie ;1985 : 1st Circuit des Frontières : 1st Stage 5 Tour de France : 9th Dwars door België : 10th Grand Prix d'Isbergues ;1986 : 3rd Omloop van het Leiedal : 5th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen ;1987 : 1st Stage 12 Herald Sun Tour : 9th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem ;1988 : 7th Giro dell'Etna : 9th Omloop Het Volk ;1989 : 1st Stage 10 Herald Sun Tour : 6th Omloop van de Westhoek : 6th GP du canton d'Argovie : 6th De Kustpijl ;1990 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges ;1991 : 7th Rund um Köln The Rund um Köln is a classic cycling race around the German city of Cologne. Since 2005 it is part of the UCI Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilias Kelesidis
Ilias Kelesidis (20 June 1953 – 30 March 2007) was a Greek cyclist. He competed in the individual road race event at the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon .... References External links * 1953 births 2007 deaths Greek male cyclists Panathinaikos cyclists Olympic cyclists of Greece Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Brno 20th-century Greek people {{Greece-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
