Greece at the Olympics

Greece at the Olympic Games
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Olympic history
Summer Games
1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Winter Games
1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014
Intercalated Games
1906

Greece has a long presence at the Olympic Games, as they have competed at every Summer Olympic Games, one of only four countries to have done so and the only one of them to compete under its national flag in Moscow, despite the Greek government's support for an American-led boycott of the 1980 Games, and most of the Winter Olympic Games. Greece has hosted the Games twice, both in Athens. As the home of the Ancient Olympic Games it was a natural choice as host nation for the revival of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, while Greece has also hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics. During the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Greece always enters the stadium first due to its status as the birthplace of the Olympics. Before the Games the Olympic Flame is lit in Olympia, the site of the Ancient Olympic Games, in a ceremony that reflects ancient Greek rituals and initiates the Olympic torch relay. The flag of Greece is always hoisted in the closing ceremony, along with the flags of the current and the next host country.

Greek athletes have won a total of 110 medals in 15 different sports and the country currently ranks 33rd in the all-time Summer Olympics medal count. Athletics and weightlifting have been the top medal-producing sports for the nation and in the latter Greece is placed among the top 10 countries overall. Gymnastics, shooting and wrestling are the other sports that have produced ten or more medals for Greece. In the inaugural 1896 Olympics, Greece finished second in the medal counts, but won the most medals in total, in their best Olympic performance. The Greeks finished third in the 1906 Intercalated Games with 8 gold, 14 silver and 13 bronze medals (35 in total), which were considered Olympic at the time but are not officially recognized by the IOC today.

Hosted Games

Greece has hosted the Summer Olympic Games on two occasions, the inaugural modern Olympics in 1896 and again in 2004. Both were held in Athens, which along with Paris and Los Angeles are the cities that have hosted the Olympic Games twice, with London being the only city to have hosted them three times. The Greek capital also hosted the 1906 Intercalated Games, which at the time were considered to be Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee.^[1]

Games	Host city	Dates	Nations	Participants	Events
1896 Summer Olympics	Athens	6 – 15 April	14	241	43
2004 Summer Olympics	Athens	13 – 29 August	201	10,625	301

Medal tables

*Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Medals by Summer Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1896 Athens 169 10 17 19 46 2 1900 Paris 3 0 0 0 0 – 1904 St. Louis 14 1 0 1 2 8 1908 London 20 0 3 1 4 15 1912 Stockholm 22 1 0 1 2 15 1920 Antwerp 57 0 1 0 1 19 1924 Paris 39 0 0 0 0 – 1928 Amsterdam 23 0 0 0 0 – 1932 Los Angeles 10 0 0 0 0 – 1936 Berlin 41 0 0 0 0 – 1948 London 61 0 0 0 0 – 1952 Helsinki 48 0 0 0 0 – 1956 Melbourne 13 0 0 1 1 35 1960 Rome 48 1 0 0 1 21 1964 Tokyo 18 0 0 0 0 – 1968 Mexico City 44 0 0 1 1 42 1972 Munich 60 0 2 0 2 29 1976 Montreal 41 0 0 0 0 – 1980 Moscow 43 1 0 2 3 22 1984 Los Angeles 62 0 1 1 2 30 1988 Seoul 56 0 0 1 1 46 1992 Barcelona 70 2 0 0 2 26 1996 Atlanta 121 4 4 0 8 16 2000 Sydney 140 4 6 3 13 17 2004 Athens 426 6 6 4 16 15 2008 Beijing 156 0 2 2 4 58 2012 London 103 0 0 2 2 75 2016 Rio de Janeiro 2020 Tokyo Total 30 42 39 111 33

Medals by Winter Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1 0 0 0 0 – 1948 St. Moritz 1 0 0 0 0 – 1952 Oslo 3 0 0 0 0 – 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 3 0 0 0 0 – 1960 Squaw Valley Did not participate 1964 Innsbruck 3 0 0 0 0 – 1968 Grenoble 3 0 0 0 0 – 1972 Sapporo 3 0 0 0 0 – 1976 Innsbruck 4 0 0 0 0 – 1980 Lake Placid 3 0 0 0 0 – 1984 Sarajevo 6 0 0 0 0 – 1988 Calgary 6 0 0 0 0 – 1992 Albertville 8 0 0 0 0 – 1994 Lillehammer 9 0 0 0 0 – 1998 Nagano 13 0 0 0 0 – 2002 Salt Lake City 10 0 0 0 0 – 2006 Turin 5 0 0 0 0 – 2010 Vancouver 7 0 0 0 0 – 2014 Sochi 7 0 0 0 0 – 2018 Pyeongchang Total 0 0 0 0 –

Medals by summer sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	6	12	11	29
Weightlifting	6	5	4	15
Artistic gymnastics	4	3	3	10
Shooting	3	4	4	11
Sailing	3	2	2	7
Fencing	2	1	1	4
Wrestling	1	3	7	11
Swimming	1	3	3	7
Cycling	1	3	0	4
Taekwondo	1	3	0	4
Judo	1	0	1	2
Diving	1	0	0	1
Rowing	0	1	2	3
Tennis	0	1	1	2
Water polo	0	1	0	1
Total	30	42	39	111

Medal tables by athlete

Athletes with most medals

The table below lists the athletes that have won more than one Olympic medal while competing for Greece. It does not include medals won for other nations and mixed teams. The athletes are shown in order by the number of total medals won; in case of the same number of total medals they are sorted by gold, silver and then bronze medals.

Pyrros Dimas is the top Greek Olympic medalist having won three gold and one bronze medal in weightlifting.

Konstantinos Tsiklitiras has won four Olympic medals in athletics and ties Pyrros Dimas for the Greek athlete with the most Olympic medals won in total.

Voula Patoulidou was the first Greek female athlete to win a gold Olympic medal in 1992.

Hrysopiyi Devetzi, with a silver and a bronze medal in triple jump, is among the Greek female athletes that have won two Olympic medals.

Athlete	Sport	Games				Total
Pyrros Dimas	Weightlifting	1992–1996–2000–2004	3	0	1	4
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras	Athletics	1908–1912	1	2	1	4
Ioannis Frangoudis	Shooting	1896	1	1	1	3
Akakios Kakiasvilis	Weightlifting	1996–2000	2	0	0	2
Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	Artistic gymnastics	1896	1	1	0	2
Georgios Orphanidis	Shooting	1896	1	1	0	2
Nikolaos Kaklamanakis	Sailing	1996–2004	1	1	0	2
Dimosthenis Tampakos	Artistic gymnastics	2000–2004	1	1	0	2
Ioannis Mitropoulos	Artistic gymnastics	1896	1	0	1	2
Sofia Bekatorou	Sailing	2004–2008	1	0	1	2
Ilias Iliadis	Judo	2004–2012	1	0	1	2
Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Cycling	1896	0	2	0	2
Thomas Xenakis	Artistic gymnastics	1896	0	2	0	2
Leonidas Sabanis	Weightlifting	1996–2000	0	2	0	2
Anastasia Kelesidou	Athletics	2000–2004	0	2	0	2
Alexandros Nikolaidis	Taekwondo	2004–2008	0	2	0	2
Petros Persakis	Artistic gymnastics	1896	0	1	1	2
Petros Galaktopoulos	Wrestling	1968–1972	0	1	1	2
Mirela Maniani	Athletics	2000–2004	0	1	1	2
Hrysopiyi Devetzi	Athletics	2004–2008	0	1	1	2
Vasileios Polymeros	Rowing	2004–2008	0	1	1	2
Efstathios Chorafas	Swimming	1896	0	0	2	2
Charalambos Cholidis	Wrestling	1984–1988	0	0	2	2

Top medalists

The tables below list the top Olympic medalists for Greece, sorted by gold, silver and then bronze medals.

Men

Athlete	Sport	Games				Total
Pyrros Dimas	Weightlifting	1992–1996–2000–2004	3	0	1	4
Akakios Kakiasvilis	Weightlifting	1996–2000	2	0	0	2
Konstantinos Tsiklitiras	Athletics	1908–1912	1	2	1	4
Ioannis Frangoudis	Shooting	1896	1	1	1	3
Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	Artistic gymnastics	1896	1	1	0	2
Georgios Orphanidis	Shooting	1896	1	1	0	2
Nikolaos Kaklamanakis	Sailing	1996–2004	1	1	0	2
Dimosthenis Tampakos	Artistic gymnastics	2000–2004	1	1	0	2
Ioannis Mitropoulos	Artistic gymnastics	1896	1	0	1	2
Ilias Iliadis	Judo	2004–2012	1	0	1	2

Women

Athlete	Sport	Games				Total
Sofia Bekatorou	Sailing	2004–2008	1	0	1	2
Voula Patoulidou	Athletics	1992	1	0	0	1
Fani Chalkia	Athletics	2004	1	0	0	1
Emilia Tsoulfa	Sailing	2004	1	0	0	1
Athanasia Tsoumeleka	Athletics	2004	1	0	0	1
Anastasia Kelesidou	Athletics	2000–2004	0	2	0	2
Mirela Maniani	Athletics	2000–2004	0	1	1	2
Hrysopiyi Devetzi	Athletics	2004–2008	0	1	1	2

See also

• List of flag bearers for Greece at the Olympics
• Category:Olympic competitors for Greece
• Greece at the Paralympics

References

1. Lennartz, Karl (2001). "The 2nd International Olympic Games in Athens in 1906" (PDF). Journal of Olympic History. International Society of Olympic Historians. Retrieved 27 March 2015.

External links

• "Greece". International Olympic Committee.
• "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee.
• "Greece". Sports-Reference.com.