Podcast Guest “It's a long road” is the 60-64 year old triathlon world champion and swimming coach Christos Garefis.
Christos Garefis was born in 1955 in Thessaloniki and graduated from the Faculty of Law and Economics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
His experience and contribution to sports is great. He has received many starts in competitions of different sports in Greece and abroad and has introduced children and adults to the sport of swimming from 1980 until today, through the capacity of swimming coach, president of the Thessaloniki All Star Sports Center, director of the Municipal Swimming Pool Panorama and owner of the Salonica Tennis and Swimming Club.
The Greek super athlete started his sports career in sailing and continued as a swimming and water polo athlete with many awards and international participations. He has been the swimming coach of PAOK from 1978 to 1992, as well as the National Swimming Coach, from 1982 to 1989. What is also impressive in his career that makes him unique in the whole world is that he has represented the Greek colors in 4 different Olympic sports, swimming, water polo, sailing and triathlon. In the triathlon, he is one of the most victorious Greek athletes. In 2015 he was crowned world champion in the 60+ category, winning the gold medal at the world championships in Chicago.
From 2000 to 2007 he was captain of sailing expeditions with Tornado type boats dedicated to people with disabilities.
He participated in the sport of Sailing at the Olympic games in Athens in 2004 together with Iordanis Paschalidis and they took 12th place. He has been involved in triathlon since 2012. From March 2013 until today he has in his possession 17 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals in Pan-European and World Ironman triathlon Championships.
At the same time, he is one of the top tennis players at the veteran level, having won 68 tournaments from 1983 to 2011.
With Christos Garefis we will have a completely free discussion focusing on some conclusions he drew from recent matches, he will explain his philosophy and his approach to sports, but also in general we will focus on various issues that concern the sports community in general .
Podcast Interview Highlights “It's a long road" by Christos Garefis.
– You recently participated in the race triathlon to Katerini and you wrote that you again drew some useful conclusions. Do you want to tell us something about it?
– Do you want to tell us some things about your theory about the mutual understanding of our inner and outer world? How much does one accept the other in the long run and what does all that we experience with long distances mean?
– In the same match I saw that your whole team excelled. Do you want to tell us something about it and how it went?
- I was impressed Christos that recently when he traveled to Spetses for a triathlon race, in a post I saw you say that you had "pre-competition anxiety", which of course left you a little later when you saw the 5 km athletes pass in front of you. You talked about returning energy. So I want to ask you two things. What is this return energy that you mention and really after thousands of races you've been in you still have that anxiety;
– What does an athlete's success depend on? Is it just about the execution in the match or also about the mental approach and thinking?
– What do you think about your athletes, coaching a week as successful?
– Do you think that as a society and in matters related to sports, do you think that we are moving well in general or do some things need to change urgently?
– Recently I saw you spoke at the Thessaloniki City Hall in a workshop on the topic "Exercise and water therapy”, suggesting 7 ways for easier oxygen intake and a more useful training process in the water.
– It can swimming to improve it stamina in a runner?
– Do you have any advice to give to parents or in general to all athletes for this summer?
– What would you advise an aspiring Marathoner?
– Do you have any tips and advice to share with us on how someone will be able to combine sports, everyday life, work and possibly family?
Christos Garefis
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