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Efstathios Topalidis
Personal information
Full name	Efstathios Topalidis
Nationality	Greece
Born	12 October 1978 (age 46); Athens, Greece
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	120 kg (265 lb)
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Style	Freestyle
Club	Atlas Kallitheas
Coach	Hristos Alexandridis
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing Greece
European Championships

Efstathios Topalidis (Greek: Ευστάθιος Τοπαλίδης; born 12 October 1978) is a Greek former amateur freestyle wrestler, who competed in the men's super heavyweight category.^[1] He wrestled for the Greek squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and eventually captured a bronze medal in the 120-kg category at the 2005 European Championships in Varna, Bulgaria.^[2]^[3] Topalidis trained throughout his sporting career as a member of the wrestling team for Atlas Kallitheas Club in Athens, under the tutelage of his longtime coach Hristos Alexandridis.

Topalidis qualified for the Greek wrestling squad in the men's super heavyweight class (130 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.^[2] Nearly six months earlier, he beat Poland's Tomasz Szewczyk in a consolation match to round off the podium for the bronze and a ticket to the Games at the third pre-Olympic tournament in Mexico City, Mexico.^[4] Topalidis lost two straight matches each to Iran's eventual fourth-place finalist Abbas Jadidi (1–9) and Georgia's Alex Modebadze (0–5), wrapping up his maiden Games to last place in the prelim pool and fifteenth overall in the final standings.^[5]

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Efstathios Topalidis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
^ ^a ^b Στάθης Τοπαλίδης: Ο αγωνιστής Πόντιος αντιδήμαρχος Αχαρνών [Stathis Topalidis: Pontos wrestler, deputy mayor of Acharnon]. www.pontos-news.gr (in Greek). Pontos News. 17 October 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
^ Χάλκινοι Τοπαλίδης και Λοϊζίδης [Bronze for Topalidis and Loizidis]. www.sport-fm.gr (in Greek). Sport FM. 13 April 2005. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
^ Αλλοι δύο παλαιστές στο Σίδνεϊ [Two more wrestlers are going to Sydney] (in Greek). In.gr. 27 March 2000. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
^ "Sydney 2000: Wrestling – Super Heavyweight Freestyle (130kg)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 134–135. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2014.