Valerios Leonidis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Valerios Leonidis

Greek weightlifter

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1966

Place of Birth: Yessentuki, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Profession: weightlifter

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Valerios Leonidis (Greek: ?a?????? ?e???d??; born February 14, 1966) is a Greek former weightlifter and current weightlifting trainer.
He has won one Olympic silver medal, two silver and one bronze World Championship medals.
He has competed in different weight classes from 60 kg to 69 kg.
His rivalry with world-record holder Naim Süleymanoglu in the men's 64 kg was a very popular part of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, in which he won the silver medal. Leonidis was born in Yessentuki, Russia, to Pontic Greek.
He was a member of the national weightlifting team of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1990 and he moved to Greece in 1991.