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Ioannis Kalmazidis

Swedish volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ61640869 ↗
Source-derived summary

Giannis Kalmazidis (Greek: Γιάννης Καλμαζίδης; born 16 June 1968) is a Greek-Swedish retired volleyball player and current coach of OFI Crete. He played for national level for Sweden and was competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He was also member of the team who won the silver medal in 1989 European Championship.

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“Ioannis Kalmazidis” enters the record as swedish volleyball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ioannis, Kalmazidis and Swedish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 1988, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-06-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ioannis, Kalmazidis and Swedish.
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“Ioannis Kalmazidis” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ioannis, Kalmazidis and Swedish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q61640869. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 1988 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ioannis Kalmazidis” 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.