Antonis Nikolaidis (; born 24 January 1967 in

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) is a British-born Cypriot sport shooter. He captured a total of seven medals (three silver and four bronze) in men's skeet shooting at the

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series, and shared titles with Costas Stratis at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and with Georgios Achilleos in the doubles at the

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and

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. Nikolaidis also competed for

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in the same discipline in three editions of the Olympic Games (1992, 1996, and 2004), but he neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal. Sixteen years after competing in his first Olympics, Nikolaidis qualified for his fourth Cypriot team, as a 41-year-old, at the

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, by placing second from the 2007 ISSF World Cup series in

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. He had finished on exactly the same score of 144 targets (120 in the preliminary rounds and 24 in the final) as France's Anthony Terras in men's skeet shooting, but narrowly lost the nation's first ever Olympic medal in a shoot-off by one point for a bonus of two.

Olympic results

References

External links

NBC Olympics Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nikolaidis, Antonis 1967 births Living people Cypriot male sport shooters Skeet shooters Olympic shooters for Cyprus Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Shooters at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Shooters at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Cyprus Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Cyprus British people of Greek Cypriot descent People from Islington (district) Sportspeople from the London Borough of Islington Sportspeople from Limassol Commonwealth Games gold medallists in shooting Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in shooting Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games