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{{short description|Greek wrestler}}
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{{Medal|Silver | [[1896 Summer Olympics|1896 Athens]] | [[Wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman|Greco-Roman]]}}
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'''Georgios Tsitas''' ({{langx|el|Γεώργιος Τσίτας}}, born 1872 in [[Smyrna]], died between 1940 and 1945) was a [[Greece|Greek]] [[sport wrestling|wrestler]]. He competed at the [[1896 Summer Olympics]] in [[Athens]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/58508 |title=Georgios Tsitas |work=Olympedia |accessdate=21 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ts/georgios-tsitas-1.html |title=Georgios Tsitas |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024205427/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ts/georgios-tsitas-1.html |archive-date=2012-10-24 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the first round of the wrestling competition, held in a roughly Greco-Roman format, Tsitas had a bye to guarantee a top three finish before he even had a match. The semifinal pitted Tsitas against fellow Greek [[Stephanos Christopoulos]]. Tsitas won the match by throwing Christopoulos. In the final, Tsitas wrestled with [[Carl Schuhmann]] of [[Germany]], an exceptional [[gymnastics|gymnast]], for 40 minutes before the match was postponed due to darkness. Tsitas did not last long the following day, being defeated to finish in second place.

==Personal life==
George Tsitas was born in 1872 in Smyrna but his family had settled in Athens. He was an athlete in the [[Panellinios G.S.]] The press of the time reports that his wrestling teacher was [[:el:Παναγής Κουταλιανός|Panagis Koutalianos]]. He had a bakery-confectionery, in the Panhellenic world he had the reputation of "humorist Hercules".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elop.gr/ta-dio-prota-olimpiaka-metallia/|title=Τα δύο πρώτα ελληνικά μετάλλια στους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες|publisher=elop}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{HOC profile|tsitas-yiorgos|Giorgos Tsitas}}

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[[Category:1872 births]]
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[[Category:Greek male sport wrestlers]]
[[Category:Olympic wrestlers for Greece]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Greece]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in wrestling]]
[[Category:Wrestlers at the 1896 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:19th-century Greek sportsmen]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Place of death missing]]
[[Category:Smyrniote Greeks]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from İzmir]]
[[Category:Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Greece]]


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