Antonios or Anthony Kounadis (; born 20 April 1937) is a

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

er,

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, scholar and academician from

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. He was President of the Academy of Athens for the year 2018. He was named the 1959

Greek Athlete of the Year The PSAT Sports Awards () are the annual sports awards that are issued by the Panhellenic Sports Press Association (PSAT). The awards are given to the year's top performing individual athletes, in the form of Athlete of the Year awards, and also t ...

Sport career

Kounadis was born in

Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

. He represented his native country at the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar ...

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, where he ended up in 18th place in the overall-rankings. Kounadis is best known for having won the gold medal in the men's discus event at the

1959 Summer Universiade The 1959 Summer Universiade, also known as the I Summer Universiade, took place in Turin, Italy. Sports * Athletics * Basketball * Fencing * Swimming * Tennis * Volleyball * Water polo Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive ...

and at the

1959 Mediterranean Games The 1959 Mediterranean Games, officially known as the III Mediterranean Games, and commonly known as Beirut 1959, were the 3rd Mediterranean Games. After visiting Africa and Europe, the Mediterranean Games were for the first time held in Asia in ...

Academic career

A professor of

civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

at the

National Technical University of Athens The National (Metsovian) Technical University of Athens (NTUA; , ''National Metsovian Polytechnic''), sometimes known as Athens Polytechnic, a university in Athens, Greece. It is named in honor of its benefactors Nikolaos Stournaris, Eleni Tosi ...

(NTUA), he was elected in 1999 a full member of the Academy of Athens. He was Vice-President of the Academy of Athens for the year 2017, and President for the year 2018.

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* * 1937 births Living people Greek male discus throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Greece Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes from Athens Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1959 Mediterranean Games FISU World University Games gold medalists for Greece Members of the Academy of Athens (modern) Members of Academia Europaea Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts National Technical University of Athens alumni Academic staff of the National Technical University of Athens Brown University faculty Georgia Tech faculty Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology Academic staff of the University of Hamburg California Institute of Technology faculty Grand Crosses of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece) Grand Commanders of the Order of George I Greek engineers Medalists at the 1959 Summer Universiade 20th-century Greek sportsmen {{Greece-athletics-bio-stub