Georgios Karagkoutis (alternate spellings: Giorgos, Karagoutis) ( el, Γιώργος Καράγκουτης) (born February 15, 1976 in Greece), is a retired
Greek
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professional
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basketball
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player. At a height of 2.08 m (6 ft. 10 in.) tall, he could play at both the
small forward
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and
power forward
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positions.
Professional career
Karagkoutis started his career with the Greek club
Panionios
Panionios G.S.S. Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ.), the ''Pan- Ionian Gymnastics Club of Smyrna'' (Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, ''Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis'') ...
, at the age of 16. He was a
Greek Cup
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finalist in 1995, and in
1998
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, he was a
FIBA Korać Cup
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semifinalist with
Panionios
Panionios G.S.S. Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ.), the ''Pan- Ionian Gymnastics Club of Smyrna'' (Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, ''Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis'') ...
.
In 1999, Karagkoutis moved to
Panathinaikos
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, and he won the
EuroLeague championship with the club in
2000
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. In the subsequent years, he played with
Iraklis (2000–01),
Near East
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(2001–02), and
Maroussi
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. With
Maroussi
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, he finished in second place in the regular season of the
Greek League, and he was also a
Greek Cup
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finalist with Maroussi in 2006.
National team career
With the
Greek Under-16 junior national team, Karagkoutis won the gold medal at the
1993 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. With the
Greek Under-19 junior national team, Karagkoutis also won the gold medal at the
1995 FIBA Under-19 World Cup
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.
Karagkoutis also played with the senior men's
Greek national team at the
1998 FIBA World Championship
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, where Greece finished in 4th place, and at the
1999 FIBA EuroBasket, where Greece also finished in 4th place. He represented Greece 25 times at the senior level, and scored a total of 100 points.
Coaching career
After concluding his playing career, Karagkoutis moved with his wife and two children to
Dafnoudi Dafnoudi ( el, Δαφνούδι) a village in Serres regional unit of Central Macedonia, Greece, located 22 km east of the city of Serres, at a short distance from the southwest slopes of the mountain Menoikio. Since 2011 administrative reform i ...
, his wife's hometown, where he became a youth coach for the
amateur
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club Ethnikos Neou Skopou.
References
External links
FIBA ProfileEuroCup ProfileHellenic Federation ProfileEurobasket.com Profile
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1976 births
Living people
Greek men's basketball players
Greek Basket League players
Iraklis Thessaloniki B.C. players
Panathinaikos B.C. players
Power forwards (basketball)
Near East B.C. players
Maroussi B.C. players
Panionios B.C. players
Small forwards
1998 FIBA World Championship players
Basketball players from Athens