The Greek Olympians In Science And Letters

More than 100 “Olympians” after their career in sports followed a career in Sciences, Art and Letters. Among the 1.604 athletes who had the opportunity and the honor to participate in Olympic Games (1896 – 2012) there are 106 athletes who built a professional career in the highest educational level. This fact is rather interesting since employment with sports in championship level usually leads to training sector due to the experience and the knowledge that have been acquired in the field of the sport that each of them perform.

An effort to collect the data reveals that Lawyers constitute the dominant profession since 15 athletes have chosen Law Science, which has led them to become Ministers (4), Members of the Parliament (8), Mayors (3) or even a Prefect (1). Moreover, many of them (11) have become Economists and they mainly excelled at significant positions in Banking Sector. There is a significant number of Olympians coming from the sports of Shooting and Fencing who reached the rank of the General (10) – mainly before the War. There are also 8 doctors specified in various sectors while 7 are Academics. The profession of the teacher was followed by 5 Olympians and there are also some Journalists – 2 of them became editors- and these are Aggelos Lambrou and Ioannis Lambrou both owning Greek editions in the USA.

Three of them are Dentists including Vasilis Papageorgopoulos who has become Member of the Parliament-Minister-Mayor while 3 have become Interpreters of University level.

Hereinafter there is a table with the names after a huge effort to present it as complete as possible:

OLYMPIANS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

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