Career
Kiligkaridis was born in Saratov, Russia. He was eliminated in the heats of the C-1 500 m event while being disqualified in the C-1 1000 m event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Four years later in Athens, Kiligkaridis was eliminated in the semifinals of the both the C-1 500 m and the C-1 1000 m events.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he was eliminated in the semifinals of those same events.
He died at the age of 37 while at a competition in Poland after falling into a coma brought on by leukaemia.
