Nikitas Kocheilas
Personal information
NationalityGreek
Born (1983-03-01) March 1, 1983
Greece
Sport
SportWater polo
Medal record
Men's water polo
Representing  Greece
FINA World League
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Athens Team competition
FINA Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2001 Istanbul Team competition

Nikitas Kocheilas (Greek: Νικήτας Κόχειλας; born 1 March 1983)[1] is a Greek water polo player. As a member of Greece men's national water polo team, he won the bronze medal at the 2006 FINA World League[2] and competed at the 2006 European Championship,[3] the 2006 FINA World Cup and the 2008 FINA World League.[4] Kocheilas was also part of the Greece men's national water polo team that was the Champion at the 2001 Junior World Championship in Istanbul.[5][6]

At club level, Kocheilas played most notably for Greece powerhouse Olympiacos from 2004 to 2011,[7][8] winning 6 Greek Championships (2005, 2007–2011), 6 Greek Cups (2006, 2007–2011) and the fourth place at the 2006–07 LEN Euroleague.[9]He has also played for Ethnikos Piraeus, Panathinaikos, PAOK, Palaio Faliro and Ydraikos. With Ethnikos he won the Greek Cup in 2000.

References

  1. ↑ Νικήτας Κόχειλας. water-polo.studioidea.gr (in Greek)
  2. ↑ Πόλο, το εθνικό μας άθλημα - Εθνική Ομάδα ανδρών: Χάλκινο μετάλλιο στο World League 2006 (Ελλάδα). we24.gr (in Greek)
  3. ↑ 2006 European Championship Greece-Germany. waterpolo.sportresult.com
  4. ↑ Water polo: Superfinal of Men’s FINA World League 2008 kick off in Genova. en.olympic.cn, 18 June 2008
  5. ↑ 2001: Δεκαπέντε χρόνια πού «πήραμε» την Πόλη. waterpolonews.gr, 19 August 2016 (in Greek)
  6. ↑ Οι μικροί που συγκλόνησαν την Ελλάδα. sportdog.gr, 19 August 2012 (in Greek)
  7. ↑ Athlitiki Icho "Αθλητική Ηχώ" newspaper archive, 2 October 2004, page 64: Το πάρε-δώσε στην Α1 ανδρών (in Greek)
  8. ↑ Τα ρόστερ των ομάδων. contra.gr, 3 October 2011 (in Greek)
  9. ↑ "Το προφίλ των τεσσάρων φιναλίστ". contra.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 12 January 2017.


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