PILIDIS Georgios

European Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Freestyle 61kg	2020	Rome, ITA

Ranking Series

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Freestyle 57kg	2018	Warsaw, POL

World Championships U23

Rank	Event	Year	Location
7	Freestyle 61kg	2018	Bucharest, ROU

The Golden Child of Greek Wrestling (sport24.gr, 10 May 2020)

Listening to traditional and classical music, paragliding, fishing, spending time with his dog. (sport24.gr, 10 May 2020; sputniknews.gr, 15 May 2021)

Athlete

English, Greek

Mohsen Pariyaei [national]

He took up wrestling at age five in Aspropyrgos, Greece. "I remember like it was today the first time I went to training. I was playing in the neighbourhood, I was five years old and they said to me, 'Georgios, let's go'. I remember how much I enjoyed it. Since then my punishment, if I did not do my homework or if I was too loud, was to be banned from going to training. I loved the sport so much." (news247.gr, 14 Apr 2019; lifo.gr, 16 May 2021)

"My grandfather brought me into the sport. He started wrestling in the Soviet Union and passed the wrestling bug on to his son. Then the older brother to the younger one, and finally it reached me. I made my grandfather's dream come true. As soon as I started going to tournaments, the first victories came immediately, and I said I have to keep going. The victories made me believe in myself." (news247.gr, 14 Apr 2019)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sputniknews.gr, 15 May 2021)

"My day starts at 06:15 with a run on the field or in the mountains. This is followed by breakfast and some rest. The next workout is at 11:00, which includes work on the mat. After eating and sleeping again until 18:00 in the afternoon I return to the gym for the last workout." (sport24.gr, 10 May 2020)

Russian freestyle wrestler Soslan Ramonov, Russian mixed martial artist Khabib Nurmagomedov. (sport24.gr, 10 May 2020)

"Wrestling is a very difficult sport. You can prepare for four years for an Olympics and a small injury can deprive you of participation, and you can lose all those years. You also do not know who you are preparing for. In wrestling there are no favourites, and the slightest mistake can cost you the whole match. In team sports like football, when you make a mistake there is a teammate who can correct it." (news247.gr, 14 Apr 2019)