Personal information | |
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Nationality | Greek |
Born | Thessaloniki, Greece | 19 September 1985
Sport | |
Sport | Paralympic athletics |
Disability class | F20 |
Event | shot put |
Medal record |
Efstratios Nikolaidis (born 19 September 1985) is a Greek Paralympic athlete who specializes in shot put. He represented Greece at the Paralympic Games. [1]
Nikolaidis represented Greece at the 2012 Summer Paralympics where he finished in fourth place in the men's shot put F20 event with a personal best of 14.51 metres. He again competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics where he finished in fourth place in the men's shot put F20 event with a personal best of 15.69 metres. He competed in the shot put F20 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a bronze medal with a distance of 15.93 metres. [2]
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