Ilias Iliadis Wins Bronze Olympic Medal in Judo  and his coach  Iliadis Nikolaos 

The Greek Olympic mission in London is celebrating its first medal won by Ilias Iliadis. in Judo.

Iliadis won the bronze medal in the men’s 90 kg judo category just minutes earlier on Wednesday. The Greek Judoka defeated his Brazilian opponent Tiago Camilo by yuko and climbed up to the bronze podium joined by Japanese judoka Masashi Nishiyama, who beat his Russian opponent Kirill Denisov.
“Congratulations to the lad who won the very first medal for Greece in the London Games,” commented the Greek deputy Minister for Sports Yiannis Ioannidis.
The Greek athlete, who had won gold at the Olympic Games in Athens, was defeated by Russian Denisov and lost his chance of competing for gold, but won the Australian Anthony by ippon and the Brazilian Camilo by yuko and conquered the third place in the Olympics Judo podium.
 

	Iliadis Nikolaos Federal/National coach
	He was born on the 26th of April in 1957 at the Kvemo-Kedi in Georgia. His parents, Moses and Salome, were farmers. He went to school from 1964 until 1974. From 1975 until 1977 he served the army of the former Russia (in a special sport department as a member of the national judo and sampo team) From 1997 until 1982 he was a student in the economic department of the University of Tiflida. From 1982until 1984 he was the president of the national sport club Uruzae in the town of Dmanise in Georgia. From 1984 until 1987 he was the president of the municipally committee of sports. From 1984 until 1989 he was also studying in the department of physical education and sports in the university. He specialized in the training and coaching of judo and sampo. From 1988 until 1992 he was the director of a bakery, food, sweets and sodas factory. In 1983 he got married to Kitsa Kalanova, who is an English and German teacher. In 1993 they came to Greece and lived in Florina, in the village of Pelargos. Until 1995 he occupied himself with the cultivation of In 1995 along with his brothers they create the sport club Filippos in Amintaio. He worked in the club and the West prefecture of Macedonia as a judo coach until November 2000. From 1995 until today he is the head coach of the National teams in Greece. Presently he lives with his wife and five children in Athens. Sport Activity He began learning wrestling, judo and sampo from the age of 10. Form 1974 until 1980 he was member of the Georgian national judo team. After a decision of the Russian committee of physical education and sports of the of Ministers, he was announced "master sporta" in judo on September 1st in 1977 and "master sporta" in sampo on July 31st in 1978. His athletic career came to a stop in 1979 when he got injured during Spartakiada, where he took part as a member of the Russian national team. From 1982 until 1987 he was judo coach for the prefecture of Dmanise in Georgia. He also created the sport club Filippos in Amintaio. In the period form 1995 until 2000, Filippos club's athletes had many and important sporting distinctions. In total the athletes of this clubs had won 276 medals in the national championships. (in particular 125 gold medals, 70 silver and 81 bronze. From 2000 when he took over as a national coach for the national teams, the athletes have accomplished great victories on international level. In total they have achieved 166 international distinctions (in particular 1 gold Olympic medal, 5th and 7th place in Olympics, 5 medals on World Championships, 21 medals in European Championships, 42 in Balkan Games and 78 in international tournaments. In 2007 his athletes won 23 medals in international tournaments (10 gold, 6 silver and 7 bronze). They also won 1 silver medal in the World Championship for men, 1 gold and 1 bronze medal in the World military Championship and 1 bronze in the European Championship for Cadets. In the Balkan Games they won 15 medals, 3 gold, 4 silver, 8 bronze. Finally in the international championships for cadets and juniors they won 18 medals, 1 gold, 4 silver and 13 bronze. In 2006 his athletes gained 6 medals in international tournaments for men, 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze. In the World Championship for juniors they won 3 medals: 1 gold and 2 bronze. In the European Championships for juniors and cadets they gained 5 medals: 1 gold and 4 bronze. In the World military Championship they won 1 gold and 1 bronze medal, while in international tournaments for cadets-juniors they won 3 bronze medals. In the Balkan games they also won 13 medals, 4 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze. In 2005 his athletes managed to gain 2 medals in international championships for men, 1 gold and 1 bronze. In the World Championship for men they won 1 silver medal while in the European championship for men they won 1 bronze medal. In the European Championship for juniors they won 3 bronze medals, while in the Mediterranean games 2 medals, 1 gold and 1 bronze. Finally in international tournaments they won 1 bronze medal. In 2004 his athletes won in international tournaments for men 3 medals, 1 gold and 2 bronze. In the European Championship for men they won 1 gold and 1 bronze medal. In the European Championship for juniors they won 2 gold medals, while in the Olympic Games of Athens they won 1 gold medal, 1 fifth position and 1 seventh position. In 2003 his athletes in international tournaments for men they won 5 medals: 1 silver and 4 bronze. In the European Championship for juniors they won 3 medals, 1 gold and bronze. Finally in the European Championship for cadets they won 1 gold medal. In 2002 his athletes won 2 silver and 2 bronze medals in international championships for men, 1 gold medal in the European Championship for cadets, 1 bronze in the European Championship for juniors and 4 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze in the Balkan Games. In 2001 his athletes won 3 bronze medals in international tournaments, 1 silver medal in the European Championship for juniors, and 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in the Balkan games. In 2004 he was announced the best coach in Europe by the European Judo Federation. In 2006, he came 5th in the PSAT ranking for best coach. He has received the 6th DAN by the International Judo Federation.