Alexandros Karageorgiou (born 3 June 1986) is an

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

from

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. He competed at the

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. Karageorgiou placed 33rd in the men's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 647. He then defeated the 32nd-ranked

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in a minor upset, 147-143, in the first round of elimination. Karageorgiou was also a member of the 13th-place Greek men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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1986 births Living people Greek male archers Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Greece Archers at the 2015 European Games European Games competitors for Greece Archers at the 2019 European Games 21st-century Greek people {{Greece-archery-bio-stub