Dionysios Georgakopoulos (; born 16 April 1963 in

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) is a Greek sport shooter. He has been selected to compete for

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in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has won a total of two medals, a gold and a silver, in pistol shooting at a major international competition, spanning the 2001 and 2003

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series. Georgakopoulos is also a member of the shooting team at

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() in his native

. Georgakopoulos' Olympic debut came as a 37-year-old at the

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, where he finished seventeenth in the

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, and sixteenth in the

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, producing aggregate scores of 576 and 557 respectively. At the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

, Georgakopoulos was named as part of the host nation's shooting team on his second consecutive Games, competing in both air and free pistol. Although

had reserved a place in air pistol shooting, he got a minimum qualifying score of 556 to fill in the quota from his runner-up finish at the

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meet in

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. In his first event, the

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, Georgakopoulos fired a score of 572 to force a three-way tie with Spain's José Antonio Colado and Namibia's

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for a distant thirty-third position, just four points away from his 2000 Olympic feat. Three days later, in the

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, Georgakopoulos shot a lowly 549 in the prelims to notch a twenty-eighth place draw with Thailand's Jakkrit Panichpatikum, ruling out of his contention for an Olympic final in front of the home crowd.

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1963 births Living people Greek male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Greece Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sport shooters from Athens 20th-century Greek sportsmen {{Greece-sportshooting-bio-stub