Konstantinos "Kostas" Patavoukas (alternate spelling: Constantinos "Costas") () (born February 3, 1966) is a Greek retired professional

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player.

Professional career

Patavoukas started his playing career as a youth with Asteras Exarhion, and he later played professionally for the

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club AEK Athens. With AEK Athens, Patavoukas was a 2 time

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finalist, in 1988 and 1992. He moved to the Greek club Panathinaikos, and with them he won the

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in 1996, in Paris, and 2 Greek League championships, in 1998 and 1999. After playing with Panathinaikos, he played with the Italian League club

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National team career

Patavoukas was a member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team. With Greece's senior national team, he played at the following tournaments: the 1989 EuroBasket, the

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, the 1991 EuroBasket, the 1992 European Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the 1993 EuroBasket, the 1994 FIBA World Championship, the 1995 EuroBasket, the

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, and the 1997 EuroBasket. In 1989, he was a silver medalist at the EuroBasket 1989, in Yugoslavia.Constantinos PATAVOUKAS (GRE) participated in 12 FIBA / FIBA Zones events.
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Post-playing career

In July 2007, Patavoukas was appointed the technical director of Ionikos Lamias.

References

External links

FIBA ProfileEurobasket.com Profile
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Hellenic Basketball Federation Profile
1966 births Living people AEK B.C. players Basketball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Greek men's basketball players 1990 FIBA World Championship players Greek Basket League players Olympic basketball players for Greece Panathinaikos B.C. players Point guards Shooting guards Basketball players from Athens Virtus Bologna players Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Greece Competitors at the 1987 Mediterranean Games 1994 FIBA World Championship players 20th-century Greek sportsmen {{Greece-basketball-bio-stub