Theodoros Velkos (

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: Θεόδωρος Βέλκος; born 20 November 1976) is a male

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

player 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 ...

. Velkos competed in

badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Goudi Olympic Hall at the Goudi Olympic Complex from 14 August through 21 August. Both men and women competed in their own singles and doubles events and together they competed in a mixed do ...

in men's doubles with partner

George Patis Giorgos Patis (; born 16 April 1983) is a badminton player from Greece. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Career Patis competed in 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's doubles with partner Theodoros Velkos. They were defeated in the roun ...

. They were defeated in the 32nd round by

Chan Chong Ming Chan Chong Ming (born 16 February 1980) is a Malaysian former badminton player and a current head coach of Malaysian national women's doubles squad. He is two-time Commonwealth Games gold medalists in the men's doubles, winning the title in ...

and

Chew Choon Eng Chew Choon Eng (born 28 May 1976) is a Malaysian former badminton player. He was a gold medalists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the men's doubles event, also at the 1999 and 2001 SEA Games in the mixed doubles and men's team events respec ...

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

. In his home country he won 12 titles at the Greek National Badminton Championships until 2010. He had previously competed as Todor Velkov (), representing Bulgaria at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

References

External links

Theodoros Velkos at Sports Reference
Bulgarian male badminton players Greek male badminton players Badminton players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for Greece Olympic badminton players for Bulgaria 1976 births Living people 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen 21st-century Bulgarian sportsmen {{Bulgaria-badminton-bio-stub