Alexios Alexopoulos
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Alexios Alexopoulos is a retired Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

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He won the silver medal at the 1996 European Indoor Championships
1996 European Indoor Championships in Athletics
The 24th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at the Globe Arena, Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden from Friday, 8 March to Sunday, 10 March 1996.-Track:-Field:-Medal table:...

. He also competed at the 2000 Olympic Games and the World Championships in 1995
1995 World Championships in Athletics
The 5th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden between August 5 and August 13.This edition featured 1804 athletes from 191 nations....

 1997 World Championship in Athletics and 1999
1999 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 4 x 100 metres relay
The Men's 4x100 metres relay event at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla on August 28 and August 29.-Medals:-Heats:All times shown are in seconds.-Heat 1:...

 without reaching the final.Also competed in world indoor championship in Athletics Maebashi Japan in 1999 where he just missed the final.

His personal best time was 20.36 seconds, achieved in June 1999 in Paris
Paris
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. This ranks him fourth among Greek 200 metres sprinters, behind Konstantinos Kenteris
Konstantinos Kenteris
Konstandinos Kenderis, also spelled as Konstadinos Kederis is a former Greek athlete...

, Anastasios Gousis
Anastásios Goúsis
Anastasios "Tasos" Gousis is a Greek sprint athlete.He was born in Corfu.He competed in the 200 m and 400 m in the 2000 Olympics, but did not progress out of the heats in either event...

 and Thomas Sbokos
Thomas Sbokos
Thomas Sbokos is a Greek sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.He won the bronze medal at the 1995 Summer Universiade and finished fourth at the 1996 European Indoor Championships...

. In the 100 metres his personal best time is 10.16 seconds, achieved in June 1998 in Athens
Athens
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. This ranks him seventh among Greek 100 metres sprinters, behind Angelos Pavlakakis
Angelos Pavlakakis
Angelos Pavlakakis is a retired Greek sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.He won the bronze medal at the 1995 European Junior Championships, the gold medals at the 1997 Mediterranean Games and the 1998 European Indoor Championships and the bronze medal at the 2000 European Indoor...

, Aristotelis Gavelas
Aristotelis Gavelas
Aristotelis Gavelas is a retired Greek sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.He finished sixth at the 2002 European Championships and won the gold medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games, the latter in a career best time of 10.14 seconds. In Greece only Angelos Pavlakakis has run faster...

, Christoforos Choidis, Alexandros Yenovelis
Alexandros Yenovelis
Alexandros Yenovelis is a retired Greek sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.He competed in relay at the 1996 Olympic Games and the World Championships in 1993, 1995 and 1997, and in the individual distance at the 1993 and 1995 World Indoor Championships, without reaching the final.His...

, Haralambos Papadias and Konstantinos Kenteris
Konstantinos Kenteris
Konstandinos Kenderis, also spelled as Konstadinos Kederis is a former Greek athlete...

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he still has the National record for 200 metres indoor (since 1996) with 20.62 seconds
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