Nikolaos Kaklamanakis

Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, known as Nikos, is a Greek windsurfer born on 19 August 1968 in Athens who lit the Olympic torch at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. A three-time Mistral class windsurfing world champion, he took part in five consecutive Olympic Games from 1992 to 2008 and reached the medal race in every one of them, winning the gold medal at the 1996 Games in Atlanta and the silver medal at the 2004 Games in Athens, and finishing ninth in 1992, sixth in 2000 and eighth in 2008. He was named one of the 1996 Greek Male Athletes of the Year. In 2019 the Hellenic Sailing Federation took legal action against him for alleged defamation over a speech in the Hellenic Parliament, and a court acquitted him in 2022.