 His personal best is 8.36 metres, achieved in June 1994 in Khania.He is also a politician and former member of the Hellenic Parliament, elected for New Democracy in the Pieria constituency in 2007.In January 2008, the journalist Makis Triantafyllopoulos revealed that Koukodimos was calling him and other journalists of the Proto Thema newspaper to cover the Christos Zachopoulos scandal.