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Nikolaos Kaklamanakis

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Nikolaos "Nikos" Kaklamanakis (Greek: Νικόλαος Κακλαμανάκης, born 19 August 1968, in Athens) is the Greek Gold-medal winner who lit the Olympic torch in the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was named one of the 1996 Greek Male Athletes of the Year. Kaklamanakis participated in five consecutive Olympic Games from 1992 to 2008, reaching the medal race in all five of them. He won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, while he was ninth in Barcelona (1992), sixth in Sydney (2000) and eighth in Beijing (2008). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Nikolaos Kaklamanakis is the 2,365th most popular athlete (up from 2,379th in 2024), the 866th most popular biography from Greece (up from 873rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular Greek Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Nikolaos Kaklamanakis ranks 2,365 out of 6,025. Before him are Alfonso Menéndez, Qu Yunxia, Heike Henkel, Shaun White, William Steinkraus, and Katie Nageotte. After him are Ernest Chapman, Helen Volk, Vic Emery, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Jean-Michel Henry, and Nikolai Sologubov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Nikolaos Kaklamanakis ranks 476. Before him are Li Bun-hui, Olga Neuwirth, Maurizio Ganz, Antonio Tarver, Sami Trabelsi, and Eric Van Meir. After him are Fernando León de Aranoa, Petar Naumoski, Monchi, Thomas G:son, Alex Skolnick, and Almudena Muñoz.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Nikolaos Kaklamanakis ranks 867 out of 1,024. Before him are Stelios Manolas (1961), Marietta Giannakou (1951), Kyriakos Papadopoulos (1992), Dimitris Lyacos (1966), Dimitris Diamantidis (1980), and Maria Damanaki (1952). After him are Voula Patoulidou (1965), Panagiotis Fasoulas (1963), Athina Rachel Tsangari (1966), Konstantinos Kenteris (1973), Giorgos Alkaios (1971), and Sofia Sakorafa (1957).

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Among ATHLETES In Greece

Among athletes born in Greece, Nikolaos Kaklamanakis ranks 24. Before him are Georgios Papasideris (1875), Perikles Kakousis (1879), Alexandros Chalkokondylis (1880), Archon of Pella (-400), Charilaos Vasilakos (1877), and Spyridon Belokas (1878). After him are Konstantinos Kenteris (1973), Ekaterini Thanou (1975), Niki Bakoyianni (1968), Hrysopiyi Devetzi (1976), Katerina Stefanidi (1990), and Fani Chalkia (1979).

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