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Georgios Liveris was a Greek sports journalist, Olympic shooter and sports administrator whose career spanned more than seven decades. A many-time Greek champion in rifle shooting, he represented Greece at the 1960 Rome Olympics and went on to attend some ten more Games as a team leader, journalist or official.…
Georgios Liveris was a Greek sports journalist, Olympic shooter and sports administrator whose career spanned more than seven decades. A many-time Greek champion in rifle shooting, he represented Greece at the 1960 Rome Olympics and went on to attend some ten more Games as a team leader, journalist or official. For decades he was press officer of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, and he was also one of Greece's best known writers on cars and motorsport.
Liveris was born in Athens on 10 May 1932. He began working in sports journalism in 1949, while still a student at Panteion University, at the newspaper Athlitiki Icho, where he stayed for some two decades. He later wrote for Apogevmatini and Dimokratiki Allagi and held senior editorial posts at the motoring magazines Auto Express, Car and Driver and Auto Motor Sport. He was a founding member of the Greek association of car and motorcycle journalists and continued to take part in historic car events into old age.
As an athlete he joined the shooting section of Panathinaikos in 1955 and won 14 Greek championship titles up to 1968. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome he placed 49th in the small-bore rifle three positions event and joint 64th in the prone event. He served as head of the Panathinaikos shooting section from 1971 to 2004, sat on the board of the Panathinaikos football company, and in 1984 led the Greek delegation at the Los Angeles Olympics.
He was also a builder of sporting institutions. The Panhellenic Sports Press Association credited him with founding the Greek weightlifting federation in 1972 and the archery federation in 1974, and with being a founding member of the association of Greek Olympians in 1989. He served as general secretary of several federations, and was an international judge in athletics, shooting and modern pentathlon. He wrote books on the history of motor racing in Greece, on the Hellenic Olympic Committee and on the 1,573 Greeks who had competed at the Olympics, the last as a family project with his sons Dionysis and Alexis, both former shooting champions.
Liveris died on 20 October 2026, aged 94. The Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers, the Hellenic Olympic Committee, the Panhellenic Sports Press Association and Panathinaikos all issued tributes, the union describing him as a distinguished colleague who stayed true to the principles of journalism throughout his life.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), Olympedia, ESIEA, Hellenic Olympic Committee, PSAT, Ta Nea and Newsbeast. Wikipedia ↗
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1Georgios Liveris speaking at a public event
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