Georgios Paraskevopoulos () was a Greek

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. He participated in the

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. Paraskevopoulos competed in the 12 hour race and the road race. According to the data provided by the official website of the Olympic Games, Paraskevopoulos did not finish the 12 hour race and there is no third winner. However, according to the

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, Paraskevopoulos did finish, and therefore is recognised by HOC as bronze medalist, having completed 940 laps of the

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. This is supported by a short article in a Greek newspaper on the following day. In the road race, Paraskevopoulos was not among the top three out of the seven cyclists to compete.

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* * Year of birth missing Year of death missing Greek male cyclists Cyclists at the 1896 Summer Olympics 19th-century Greek sportsmen Olympic cyclists for Greece Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{Greece-cycling-bio-stub