Marios Giannakou was born in the city of Drama in 1992. He served in the Special Forces as a trainer. He works as a marketer in his own company based in Thessaloniki. He is a long distance athlete in extreme conditions and an explorer. He was one of 14 people in the world to complete the 150-kilometer Arctic race in 2018, the world's youngest athlete to complete the world's largest 270-kilometer desert super marathon in the Al Marmoum Desert, and in February 2020 completed the 250-kilometer race in the jungle of Central America. In October 2020, his team and him carrying Eleftheria Tosiou, a person with mobility problems on his back, took her to the top of Olympus! In the summer of 2021 he traveled by sailboat to the Arctic to document the problems arising from climate change and marine pollution. In February 2022, he is preparing to run a 10-day autonomous 500-kilometer race in the Arctic.
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Marios Giannakou was born in the city of Drama in 1992. He served in the Special Forces as a trainer. He works as a marketer in his own company based in Thessaloniki. He is a long-distance athlete in extreme conditions and an explorer. He was one of 14 people in the world to complete the 150-kilometer Arctic race in 2018, the world's youngest athlete to complete the world's largest 270-kilometer desert super marathon in the Al Marmoum Desert, and in February 2020 completed the 250-kilometer race in the jungle of Central America. In October 2020, his team and him carrying Eleftheria Tosiou, a person with mobility problems on his back, took her to the top of Olympus! In the summer of 2021, he traveled by sailboat to the Arctic to document the problems arising from climate change and marine pollution. In February 2022, he is preparing to run a 10-day autonomous 500-kilometer race in the Arctic. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx