Andreas Kilingaridis ( el, Ανδρέας Κιλιγκαρίδης) (5 August 1976 – 12 June 2013) was a
Russian-born
Greek sprint racer who had been competing from the early 2000s.
Kilingaridis was born in
Saratov
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,
Russia. He was eliminated in the heats of the
C-1 500 m event while being disqualified in the
C-1 1000 m event at the
2000 Summer Olympics
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in
Sydney
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.
Four years later in
Athens, Kilingaridis was eliminated in the semifinals of both the
C-1 500 m and the
C-1 1000 m events. At the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing, he was eliminated in the semifinals of those
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events. He died at the age of 37 while at a competition in Poland after falling into a coma brought on by leukemia.
References
Sports-Reference.com profile
1976 births
2013 deaths
Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Greek male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for Greece
Sportspeople from Saratov
Deaths from leukemia
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