| Ilias Georgiou | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ilias Georgiou | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Cyprus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 June 1999 Larnaca, Cyprus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Panayiotis Shippi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ilias Georgiou is a Cypriot male artistic gymnast, representing his nation in international competitions.
As a junior he competed for Cyprus in the 2016 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in the all-around final. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games he again competed in the team final for Cyprus and qualified for the event finals in all-around, parallel bars, and horizontal bar. The same year he competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, placing 5th in the horizontal bar and 7th in the all-around and parallel bars. [1]
His first international medals came in the 2019 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series, in which he won the silver in horizontal bar at Cottbus, bronze in horizontal bar at Osijek, and bronze in parallel bars at Koper. At the 2021 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series in Cairo, he took silvers for parallel bars and horizontal bar. [2] At the 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships he qualified for the finals in the all-around and horizontal bar, placing 7th in each qualifier, but he withdrew from the all-around competition after the first rotation. [3]
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