Ilias Iliadis

Ilias Iliadis is a Georgian-born Greek judoka, born Jarji Zviadauri on 10 November 1986, who was named the 2014 Greek Male Athlete of the Year. He won the gold medal in the half-middleweight (81 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens at the age of 17, and six years later won gold at the 2010 World Judo Championships in Tokyo in the 90 kg category. As Greece's flagbearer he was the first athlete to enter the Bird's Nest Stadium at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He is a cousin of the Georgian judoka Zurab Zviadauri, who also won Olympic gold in 2004. His family moved to Greece in 2003 and he was adopted by Nikos Iliadis. Since November 2019 he has worked as head coach of the Uzbek national team.