| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Cyprus |
| Born | (1967-01-24)24 January 1967 (age 58) |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Shooting |
Event | Skeet (SK125) |
| Coached by | Petr Malek[1] |
Antonis Nikolaidis (Greek:Αντώνης Νικολαϊδης; born 24 January 1967 inIslington,Greater London,Great Britain) is a British-bornCypriot sport shooter.[2] He captured a total of seven medals (three silver and four bronze) in men's skeet shooting at theISSF World Cup series, and shared titles withCostas Stratis at the1998 Commonwealth Games and withGeorgios Achilleos in the doubles at the2002 Commonwealth Games and2006 Commonwealth Games.[1][3] Nikolaidis also competed forCyprus in the same discipline in three editions of the Olympic Games (1992, 1996, and 2004), but he neither reached the final round, nor claimed an Olympic medal.
Sixteen years after competing in his first Olympics, Nikolaidis qualified for his fourth Cypriot team, as a 41-year-old, at the2008 Summer Olympics inBeijing, by placing second from the2007 ISSF World Cup series inChangwon,South Korea.[1] He had finished on exactly the same score of 144 targets (120 in the preliminary rounds and 24 in the final) as France'sAnthony Terras inmen's skeet shooting, but narrowly lost the nation's first ever Olympic medal in a shoot-off by one point for a bonus of two.[4][5][6]
| Olympic results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | 1992 | 1996 | 2004 | 2008 | |
| Skeet | 25th 145 | 26th 118 | 21st 119 | 4th 120+24 | |
