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| Born | 17 November 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Georgios Konsolas (born 17 November 1990) is a Greek lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju with the lightweight men's quadruple scull. [1]
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