Kormalis was born on 6 November 1932 in
Athens, Greece. He was a member of the clubs AE Emporoipallilon and then
Panathinaikos A.O. (PAO), being considered one of the greatest athletes for the latter and a "legend" for them. He was described as a "huge figure" with the club and GreenCorner.gr called him "a particularly fast athlete and one of the best relay runners of all time". Competing mainly in
relay events, Kormalis won many medals at the
Balkan Athletics Championships. He was part of a
4 × 400 metres relay team that won gold at the 1953 and 1954 championships, with the team's time in the latter year of 3:17.0 setting the national record and the Balkan record. He won bronze at the Balkan championships in 1957 in the
4 × 100 metres relay, and in 1958, he won bronze in both relay events, setting a national record in the 4 × 400. In 1959, Kormalis won three medals at the Balkan championships: bronze in the 4 × 400m, silver in the
200 metres, and gold in the 4 × 100m, with both relay times setting national records. That year, he had his "greatest success" in athletics, being part of a Greek team that won gold in the 4 × 400m at the
1959 Mediterranean Games with a time of 3:15.0, while also winning a silver at the games in the 4 × 100m with a time of 47.1. In 1960, he won two silver medals at the Balkan championships. Kormalis also competed for Greece at the
1960 Summer Olympics in
Rome in two relay events, though he did not medal. He won one further silver medal at the 1962 Balkan championships to conclude his career with 13 Balkan medals (including three gold) and two Mediterranean medals. Kormalis died in September 2003, at the age of 70. ==References==