Konstantinos Fykas is a Greek Paralympic swimmer who has won 5 Paralympic medals including 2 gold medals between 1996 and 2004. He holds five world records in 50m and 100m front crawl swimming. As the standard bearer at the 2004 Athens Paralympics opening ceremony, he won two more silver medals and set European records. Although he participated in four Paralympics between 1996 and 2008, he was unfairly pulled from the semi-finals in Beijing in 2008. Today, Fykas is a doctor who works in the Greek Ministry of Transport.
3. MEDALS
• He has won 5 paralympic medals(2 gold,3
silver) in three Paralympics(1996,2000,2004)
and he has broke down five times the world
record in 50m. and 100m. front crawl.
4. HIS COURSE
• In 2004 in Athens , he
was rightfully the
standard bearer of the
Greek team at the
opening ceremony,He
won 2 more silver
medals with european
record.
5. HIS COURSE
• In 2008,in Beijingn he participated for the 4th time in
Paralympics. He didn’t make it to the finals because
of the unfair decision of the judges to pull him out in
the semi-finals.
• At the same time, in 2001, he crossed the Malliakos
Bay, a distance of 11 km
6. TODAY
• Konstantinos Fykas has
studied medicine and he
is being occupied with
it.He is apointee in the
Ministry of
Transport.His motto is
“Think it,dream it,do it.”
