Greek karateka
Eleni Chatziliadou
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| Native name | Ελένη Χατζηλιάδου |
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| Born | (1993-07-29) 29 July 1993 (age 30) |
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| Home town | Katerini, Greece |
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| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
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| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) |
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| Country |  Greece |
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| Sport | Karate |
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| Coached by | Maximos Chatziliadis |
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Eleni Chatziliadou (Greek: Ελένη Χατζηλιάδου, born July 29, 1993, in Katerini, Greece) is a Greek karateka won the gold medal in the women's kumite +68 kg event at the 2018 World Karate Championships held in Madrid, Spain.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] In the same year, she also won a silver medal at the 2018 Mediterranean Games and at 2018 European Karate Championships.[15][16][17] In 2019, she won the silver medal in the women's kumite +68 kg event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk,[18][19][20][21] Belarus. She took the fifth place in the women's kumite +68 kg (over-68-kg kumite category) event at the 2021 Karate 1 Premier League in Lisbon, Portugal.[22][23][24] As an athlete member of Karate Club Bushido Bonn,[25] Bonn, represented the Germany,[26][27][28][29] she won the bronze medal at the 2017 Karate1 Premier League held in Rotterdam. She won the bronze medal at the 2021 European Karate Championships held in Poreč, Croatia.[30][31][32][33][34] Due she had some injury problems and missed a series of events, she did not qualify in being in the athletes of Greece at the 2020 Summer Olympics[35][36][37][38] in Tokyo.[39][40][41][42][43]
Early life
She born into a karate family where her parents were karate athletes, while her younger sister Georgia is a karate athlete.[44] Eleni Chatziliadou began karate at the age of five at her father's karate school Pierikos Team Karate (Πιερικός Αθλητικός Σύλλογος Καράτε) founded in 1986 in Katerini, also known as A.C.K. Pierikos Combat Sports (Πιερικός Σύλλογος Μαχητικών Αθλημάτων), has Shotokan Kobudo of Okinawa karate. His father has served as her karate instructor and as her coach.[45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54]
She attended 2011‒2016 the Department of Physiotherapy of the Faculty of Health and Welfare of Technological Educational Institute of Central Greece graduating with a bachelor's degree in physical therapy, and in September 2015 as an Erasmus+ exchange student in Germany she started attending the six-month internship term of the bachelor's degree.[55][44][56] From April 2017 to July 2018, as physical therapist she worked at the orthopaedic clinic Orthopädische Fachklinik Kurköln,[57][58] Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany.
In 2018 she enrolled in the undergraduate programme of Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She attended 2020‒2022 the private institute of vocational training IEK Delta 360º in Thessaloniki for the 2-year journalism programme.[59] Since August 2018, she became a professional athlete because karate has been included in the 2020 Olympic Games, which leads to begin her first sponsorship by Eren Hellas[60][61] and other sponsors later.[62]
Me Too
Eleni Chatziliadou has spoken to media about having been intimidated and threatened from a man, who was not a Hellenic Karate Federation (ELOK) official member, involving behind the scenes to the Hellenic Karate Federation.[89][90][91] She stressed about the revelations of Olympic sailing athlete Sofia Bekatorou, followed the took off in Greece of the Me Too movement in 2020, encouraged in her decision to talk publicly, after ten years of awaiting time, with her own case of harassment and abuse.[92][93][94]
Politics
On 31 December 2022 it officially announced that Eleni Chatziliadou will be taken part as candidate for municipal councilor in the 2023 municipal elections on 8 October 2023 with the Dimos Protypo political party of which has leader and mayoral candidate for Municipality of Katerini Ioannis Ntoumos,[95][96][97][98] but she was not elected.[99][100]
Personal life
Eleni Chatziliadou married the athlete boxer Alexandros Tsanikidis in 2022.[101]
