Konstantinos Gkaripis ( gr, Κωνσταντίνος Γκαρίπης; born March 12, 1981, in
Serres) is a Greek
weightlifter. Gkaripis represented
Greece
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at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, where he competed for the
men's middle-heavyweight category (94 kg), along with his compatriot
Anastasios Triantafyllou. He successfully lifted 160 kg in the single-motion
snatch, and hoisted 200 kg in a two-part, shoulder-to-overhead
clean and jerk
The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...
, for a total of 360 kg, finishing only in fourteenth place.
References
External links
NBC 2008 Olympics profile
Greek male weightlifters
1981 births
Living people
Olympic weightlifters for Greece
Weightlifters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Serres
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Greece
Mediterranean Games medalists in weightlifting
Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
21st-century Greek people
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