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Ioannis Andreou

Greek swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ439820 ↗
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Ioannis Andreou (Greek: Ιωάννης Ανδρέου) was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Andreou competed in the 1,200 metres freestyle event. He placed second of the seven swimmers, with a time of 21:03.4. The winner, Alfréd Hajós, had finished in 18:22.2.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ioannis Andreou” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.