Greece at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Greece at the Olympic Games
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At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
Competitors	70 (56 men and 14 women) in 17 sports
Flag bearer	Lambros Papakostas
Medals Rank: 26	Gold 2	Silver 0	Bronze 0	Total 2
Olympic history (summary)
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Intercalated Games
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Greece competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. 70 competitors, 56 men and 14 women, took part in 53 events in 17 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Gold

• Voula Patoulidou — Athletics, Women's 100m Hurdles
• Pyrros Dimas — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight (82½ kg)

Athletics

Men's 400m Hurdles

• Athanassios Kalogiannis

• Heat — 49.52 (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

• Konstantinos Koukodimos

• Qualification — 8.22 m
• Final — 8.04 m (→ 6th place)

• Spyridon Vasdekis

• Qualification — 7.82 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

• Savvas Saritzoglou

• Qualification — 74.16 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

• Christos Pallakis

• Qualification — 5.30 m (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

• Niki Gavera

• Qualification — 1.83 m (→ did not advance)

• Niki Bakogianni

• Qualification — 1.88 m (→ did not advance)

Boxing

Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)

• Georgios Stefanopoulos

Cycling

Men's Individual Pursuit (4,000 metres)

• Georgios Portelanos

Men's Points Race

• Georgios Portelanos

Diving

Women's 3m Springboard

• Eleni Stavridou

• Preliminary Heat — 240.42 points (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Fencing

One male fencer represented Greece in 1992.

Men's sabre

• Zisis Babanasis

Judo

Modern pentathlon

One male pentathletes represented Greece in 1992.

Individual

• Alexandros Nikolopoulos

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)

• Nikos Kaklamanakis

• Final Ranking — 123.4 points (→ 9th place)

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

• Nikos Paleokrassas

• Heat – 23.51 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

• Nikos Steliou

• Heat – 23.51 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Nikos Paleokrassas

• Heat – 53.47 (→ did not advance, 53rd place)

Synchronized swimming

One synchronized swimmer represented Greece in 1992.

Women's solo

• Christina Thalassinidou

Tennis

Men's Doubles Competition

• Anastasios Bavelas and Konstantinos Efraimoglou

• First round — Defeated Christian Forcellini and Gabriel Francini (San Marino) 6-1, 6-1, 6-2
• Second round — Lost to Boris Becker and Michael Stich (Germany) 3-6, 1-6, 4-6

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Lost to Cuba (9-10)
• Lost to Spain (6-11)
• Tied with the Netherlands (4-4)
• Lost to Hungary (7-12)
• Lost to Italy (6-8)

• Classification Matches

• Defeated France (10-6)
• Defeated Czechoslovakia (10-8) → 10th place

• Team Roster

• Kyriakos Giannopoulos
• Georgios Mavrotas
• Dimitrios Seletopoulos
• Anastasios Papanastasiou
• Evangelos Pateros
• Epaminondas Samartzidis
• Nikolaos Venetopoulos
• Filippos Kaiafas
• Evangelos Patras
• Gerasimos Voltirakis
• Theodoros Lorantos
• Konstantinos Loudis
• Dimitrios Bitsakos

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

1. "Greece at the 1992 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-12-24.