He was an athlete of the Agrinio Gymnast Company (GEA) and a member of the Greece national team from 1971 to 1987.
He participated in the Olympic Games in 1976 and in 1984 and achieved many Panhellenic and Balkan records in marathon running.
His greatest moment was the gold medal which he won in 1979, during the Mediterranean Games, in Split (present-day Croatia), where he finished 1st in a then considered as a world record.
Subsequently it was announced that the course was remeasured and found shorter than the official marathon distance.
[1] He died in 2005, from heart problems, while training on Seih Sou in Thessaloniki.