Ilias Georgiou is a

Greek Cypriot Greek Cypriots or Cypriot Greeks ( el, Ελληνοκύπριοι, Ellinokýprioi, tr, Kıbrıs Rumları) are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community. According to the 2011 census, 659,115 r ...

male

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

, representing his nation in international competitions.

Career

As a junior he competed for

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

in the

2016 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 32nd European Championships in Men's Artistic Gymnastics Seniors and Juniors was held from 25 to 29 May 2016 at the PostFinance-Arena in Bern, Switzerland. Senior Results Team competition Floor Pommel horse Rings Vault ...

in the all-around final. At the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

he again competed in the team final for Cyprus and qualified for the event finals in all-around, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. The same year he competed at the

2018 Mediterranean Games The 2018 Mediterranean Games ( es, Juegos Mediterráneos de 2018), officially known as the XVIII Mediterranean Games ( es, XVIII Juegos Mediterráneos) and commonly known as Tarragona 2018, was an international multi-sport event held from 22 Jun ...

, placing 5th in the horizontal bar and 7th in the all-around and parallel bars. His first international medals came in the

2019 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series The 2019 FIG World Cup circuit in Artistic Gymnastics is a series of competitions officially organized and promoted by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in 2019. All four of the Apparatus World Cup series competitions (Melbourne, Bak ...

, in which he won the silver in horizontal bar at Cottbus, bronze in horizontal bar at Osijek, and bronze in parallel bars at Koper. At the

2021 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series The 2021 FIG World Cup circuit in Artistic Gymnastics is a series of competitions officially organized and promoted by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in 2021. A number of events were originally scheduled to take place in 2020 and s ...

in Cairo, he took silvers for parallel bars and horizontal bar. At the

2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Kitakyushu, Japan from October 18–24, 2021. The competition took place at the Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium. It was the third time that Japan hosted the event, following the 1995 ...

he qualified for the finals in the all-around and horizontal bar, placing 7th in each qualifier, but he withdrew from the all-around competition after the first rotation.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Georgiou, Ilias 1999 births Living people Cypriot male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Cyprus Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Cyprus Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Gymnasts at the 2018 Mediterranean Games