Career
As of October 2012, he is ranked northern 50 in the world for the Finn class by the International Sailing Federation. Four years after competing in his last Olympics, Papadopoulos qualified for his second Cypriot team, as a 24-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by finishing twenty-ninth from the Finn Gold Cup in Melbourne, Australia.
He placed twenty-second in the preliminary races of the open Finn class, by three points larger of his record from Ireland"s Tim Goodbody, with a Netto score of 115 points.