Background
Polychronidis was born in Bremen in Germany.
Polychronidis was born in Bremen in Germany.
He competes for Greece. He entered a specialist skiing school at the age of twelve after precociously jumping on skis at the age of six. He competed for Germany until he realised in 2012 that he had a better chance of competing at the Olympics if we was to use his Greek nationality.
In order to switch teams he had to stop competing for a year with his first World Cup event being at Klingenthal 2013.
He was able to attend the opening ceremony at the Sochi Olympics on 7 February 2014 in the Greek Winter Olympic team