Headercolor: | lightblue |
Georgios Salavantakis | |
Birth Date: | 10 September 1970 |
Birth Place: | Chania, Crete, Greece |
Weight: | 770NaN0 |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | Skeet |
Club: | SKOE |
Coach: | John Loverdos |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Georgios Salavantakis (el|Γεώργιος Σαλαβαντάκης; born 10 September 1970 in Chania, Crete) is a Greek sport shooter.[1] He won a gold medal in men's skeet shooting at the 2004 ISSF World Cup series in Sydney, Australia, with a total score of 148 points.[2] [3]
Salavantakis represented the host nation Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed twenty-first in men's skeet shooting, with a total score of 120 points, tying his position with seven other shooters, including former Olympic champion Ennio Falco of Italy, and five-time Olympian Guillermo Alfredo Torres of Cuba.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salavantakis competed for the second time, as a 38-year-old, in men's skeet shooting. He finished only in thirty-third place by one point behind Ukraine's Mikola Milchev from the final attempt, for a total score of 109 points.[4]