Sideris Tasiadis (born 7 May 1990) is a German
slalom canoeist of Greek descent who has competed at the international level since 2005.Son of greeks him lived in
Thrace
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,
Greece
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at the village
Komara
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for 10 years during his childhood.
Career
In 2012, he won a silver medal in the men's
C1 at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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in
London
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behind
Tony Estanguet
Tony Estanguet (born 6 May 1978 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pau) is a French Canoe slalom, slalom canoeist and a three-time Olympic champion in C1. He competed at the international level from 1994 to 2012.
Racing career
Estanguet won thre ...
(FRA) and beating two-time Olympic champion
Michal Martikán
Michal Martikán (; born 18 May 1979) is a Slovak slalom canoeist who has been competing at the international level since 1994. In 1996 he became the first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal for Slovakia since the country gained independence i ...
(SVK). He finished fifth in the
C1 event four years later at the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
in
Rio de Janeiro
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. Tasiadis earned a second Olympic medal in the
C1 event by finishing third at the
2020 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
.
He also won six medals at the
ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
The ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships are an international event in canoeing organized by the International Canoe Federation. The World Championships have taken place every year in non- Summer Olympic years since 2002. From 1949 to 1999, they ...
with one gold (C1:
2022
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), four silvers (C1 team:
2010
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,
2011
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,
2013
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,
2015
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) and a bronze (C1:
2018
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). Tasiadis won 12 medals at the
European Championships (3 golds, 6 silvers and 3 bronzes).
Tasiadis won the overall
World Cup
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title in the C1 class in
2013
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and
2017
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. He is currently the
No. 1-ranked athlete by the
ICF, having held that position since 2018.
World Cup individual podiums
Personal life
Tasiadis dated slalom canoeist
Claudia Bär until her death in 2015 after a two-year battle with
leukemia
Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ' ...
.
References
2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships 12 September 2010 C1 men's team final results– accessed 12 September 2010.
External links
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German male canoeists
Living people
1990 births
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
German people of Greek descent
Olympic canoeists of Germany
Olympic bronze medalists for Germany
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in canoeing
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships
Sportspeople from Augsburg
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