Our Team
Head Coach
Kyriakos Ioannou
Head Coach
Kyriakos Ioannou
Kyriakos Ioannou, with significant international success in high jump and many years of experience competing at the highest level of athletics, has the necessary knowledge and ability to be next to each athlete to train and guide them.
Specifically, Kyriakos specializes in jumping sports (high jump, long jump, triple jump).
After Kyriako’s retirement he has been focusing on coaching, mainly in Cyprus.
Education
– TEFAA Athens
Specialty of Jumping ( Long jump – High jump – Triple jump)
Achievements
– 2004 Athens Olympic Games | Qualification
– 2005 Mediterranean Games, Almeria – Gold Medal | 2.24m
– 2006 Commonwealth Games, Melbourne – Bronze Medal | 2.23m
– 2007 World Championship, Osaka – Bronze Medal | 2.35m – WL
– 2008 World Indoor Championship, Valencia – Bronze Medal | 2.30m
– 2008 Beijin Olympic Games | Qualification
– 2009 European Indoor Championship, Torino – Silver Medal | 2.29m
– 2009 Mediterranean Games, Pescara – Gold Medal | 2.30m
– 2009 World Championship, Berlin – Silver Medal | 2.32m
– 2011 IAAF Diamond League, Oslo – Winner
– 2012 London Olympic Games | Final
– 2014 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow – Silver Medal | 2.28m
– 2016 Rio Olympic Games | 7th Olympic
Honors & Awards
– 3 times Athlete of the Year – National Award
– 4 times Man of the Year – National Award
– 1st Cypriot World Championship Medalist (Athletics)
Qualified Trainers
Dora Mouskou
Trainer
Dora Mouskou
Dora Mouskou is a graduate of Physical Education and Sports Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds a Diploma in Special Physics of Education of the Kapodistrian University of Athens. He earned a master’s degree studies in Special Education at the Open University of Cyprus. Professionally, he taught the Physical Education course in Pre-Primary, Primary, Special and Secondary Education. He has teaching experience at Mazikos Sports training a wide range of ages from pre-primary classes up to the adult sections. He has coaching experience in an Athletics Academy.
Karagiannas Antonios
Trainer
Karagiannas Antonios
Graduate of – TEFAA Athens
Specialty of Track and field
Antonios has years of experience in Athletics both in Cyprus and Greece.
Lefteris Ilia
Trainer
Lefteris Ilia
Physiotherapists
Giorgos Kattidis
Team Physiotherapist
Giorgos Kattidis
GIORGOS KATTIDIS GOT THE DIPLOMA IN PHYSICAL THERAPY WITH SUCCESS IN THE FINAL STATE EXAMS AT STAATLICH ANERKANNTE LEHRANSTALT CHARLOTEBURG, BERLIN, GERMANY.
THEN HE SPECIALIZED IN SPORTS THERAPY WITH SUCCESS IN THE FINAL EXAMINATIONS TO OBTAIN THE TITLE OF SPORTS THERAPIST.
WORKING IN THE CYPRUS FEDERATION OF AMASTIC SPORTS AND IN THE Gymnastics Association of Olympia as a physiotherapist from (1998-2013. During the 15-year-old he was a member of the ABSEMPTION IN PANTEMS KOEA.
ALSO FROM 1998 UNTIL TODAY HE ACCOMPANIES KOEA ATHLETES TO THE DOCTORS DR. MULLER WOHLFAHRT (FORMER DOCTOR OF THE GERMAN NATIONAL FOOTBALL AND BAYERN MUNCHEN IN MUNICH AND DR. GRAFF (FORMER DOCTOR OF THE GERMAN ATHLETICS FEDERATION IN ESSEN WHERE HE HAS BEEN 80 YEARS) CASES.
Christos Ioannou
Team Physiotherapist
Christos Ioannou
Christos Ioannou has a degree in sports massage and muscle injury since 2007 at IEK Akmi in Athens.
He collaborated with the biggest sports names in Cyprus and Greece, he was a member of various missions with the Cyprus Athletics Federation in the preparation of athletes as well as in European and World Games. He has his own place for massage treatments at 11 Ioanni Styllianou Street Havouza Limassol.
Nutritionist
Katerina Pavli
Team Nutritionist
Katerina Pavli
Katerina Pavli is a Dietitian – Nutritionist. She studied at Harokopion University in Athens in the Department of Dietetics-Nutrition Science. She completed her postgraduate studies with the title Applied Dietetics-Nutrition and majoring in Clinical Nutrition at Harokopion University.
With the aim of her continuous and valid information, she takes part in educational seminars and conferences on Nutrition and Health. She studies the latest studies in the field of nutrition and is constantly in contact with Scientists in the field of Health.
She undertakes and manages a wide range of cases on a daily basis, from weight loss and childhood obesity to more serious clinical conditions. Finally, she works with sports groups where she monitors the nutritional progress of sportsmen and women of all ages.
She herself has a passion for sports and believes that not only nutrition is enough to achieve a healthy lifestyle, but a set of factors in which exercise also plays a decisive role.
Doctor
Kyriakos Kakavelakis
Team Doctor
Kyriakos Kakavelakis
Dr. Kyriakos Kakavelakis is an Orthopedic Surgeon, with expertise and extensive experience in treating injured athletes. He is a graduate of the Medical School of the University of Crete, holds a master’s degree and studies in Physiotherapy and Physical Education and Sports Science.
He has specialized in Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University Hospital of Heraklion, while he has been further trained in Knee Surgery and Sports Traumatology at the University Hospital of Ghent and at the Monica Clinic in Antwerp in Belgium (official training centers of the European Society of Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy, ESSKA).
He has worked as a medical specialist – among others – at the Orthopedic and Sports Injuries clinic of Creta InterClinic in Heraklion, Crete, while in recent years he has been a Scientist. Head of the Sports Traumatology department of the Mediterranean Hospital of Limassol.
For a number of years he has treated a large number of high-level athletes and has worked as a team doctor, including OFI, Nea Salamina and most recently Apollon Limassol, whose medical staff he has been the head of since 2017 until today.
Our Partnets
AZ Sport Scholarships
Athlokinisi
Paisios Demetriades
Trainer
Paisios Demetriades
Paisios holds a degree in Sports Science(BSc) at the University of Nicosia.
He has many year or professional experience in Track and Field and personal training.
Paisios is the Academy’s sprint specialist.