Greece at the 1912 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:GRE
Nocname:Hellenic Olympic Committee
Games:Summer Olympics
Year:1912
Website: 
Competitors:22
Sports:5
Flagbearer:Konstantinos Tsiklitiras
Rank:15
Gold:1
Silver:0
Bronze:1
Appearances:auto
See also:1906 Intercalated Games

Greece competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. 22 competitors, all men, took part in 25 events in five sports.[1] Greek athletes have competed in all Summer Olympic Games.

Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
AthleticsMen's standing long jump
AthleticsMen's standing high jump

Aquatics

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

A single swimmer competed for Greece at the 1912 Games. It was the second time the nation appeared in swimming, and the first since the 1896 Summer Olympics.

Asimakopoulos placed third in the initial heats of his only event, the 100 metre freestyle, and did not advance to the quarterfinals.

Ranks given for each swimmer are within the heat.

Men

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

5 athletes represented Greece, including three who had competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. All three had also represented Greece at the 1906 Intercalated Games. It was the fifth appearance of the nation in athletics, in which Greece had competed at each Olympics. Tsiklitiras, who had taken silver medals in both the standing jumps in 1908, again medalled in both with a gold and a bronze this time. Those two medals were the only ones Greece won in 1912 in any sport. Dorizas, the defending silver medalist in the freestyle javelin, suffered from the elimination of that event and did not medal in either of his throwing events. Banikas was the third returner.

Ranks given are within that athlete's heat for running events.

AthleteEventsHeatSemifinalFinal
ResultRankResultRankResultRank
Georgios BanikasPole vaultalign=center colspan=2N/A3.2018align=center colspan=2did not advance
Michalis DorizasShot putalign=center colspan=2N/A12.0511align=center colspan=2did not advance
Discus throwalign=center colspan=2N/A39.2813align=center colspan=2did not advance
Iraklis SakellaropoulosMarathonalign=center colspan=4N/A3:11:37.026
Dimitrios Triantafyllakos100 m?5align=center colspan=4did not advance
Konstantinos TsiklitirasStanding long jumpalign=center colspan=2N/A3.371 Q3.37
Standing high jumpalign=center colspan=2N/A1.501 Q1.55

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Seven fencers represented Greece. It was the second appearance of the nation in fencing and the first since 1896. The Greek fencers did not advance to the finals in any event, falling only one place short of qualifying three times.

FencerEventRound 1QuarterfinalSemifinalFinal
RecordRankRecordRankRecordRankRecordRank
Konstantinos KotziasÉpée1 loss1 Q3 losses4align=center colspan=4did not advance
Petros ManosÉpée1 loss1 Q2 losses2 Q3 losses3align=center colspan=2did not advance
Sotirios NotarisFoil2 losses3 Q3 losses4align=center colspan=4did not advance
Épée2 losses3 Q2 losses4align=center colspan=4did not advance
Georgios PetropoulosÉpée1 loss1 Q2 losses3 Q2 losses3align=center colspan=2did not advance
Trifon TriantafyllakosÉpée2 losses2 Q3 losses4align=center colspan=4did not advance
Georgios VersisÉpée3 losses3 Q3 losses4align=center colspan=4did not advance
Konstantinos Kotzias
Petros Manos
Georgios Petropoulos
Trifonos Triantafyllakos
Georgios Versis
Panagiotis Kambas
Team épéealign=center colspan=2N/A1–12 Q1–23align=center colspan=2did not advance

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Nine shooters competed for Greece. It was the nation's third appearance in shooting. Greek shooters did not win any medals in 1912. Levidis came closest to winning a medal, shooting into a three-way tie for second place in the 300 metre military rifle. In the shoot-off, he finished last of the three to take an overall rank of fourth place.

ShooterEventFinal
ResultRank
Nikolaos Levidis50 m rifle, prone18125
600 m free rifle7352
300 m military rifle, 3 pos.954
25 m small-bore rifle19230
100 m deer, single shots3115
30 m rapid fire pistol23134
Frangiskos Mavrommatis50 m rifle, prone17234
600 m free rifle8222
300 m military rifle, 3 pos.8717
25 m small-bore rifle20418
30 m rapid fire pistol26323
50 m pistol25829
Anastasios Metaxas30 m rapid fire pistol23235
Trap884
Spyridon Mostras300 m military rifle, 3 pos.4488
Konstantinos Skarlatos50 m pistol42030
30 m rapid fire pistol26127
Alexandros Theofilakis600 m free rifle6668
300 m military rifle, 3 pos.6967
50 m pistol36947
30 m rapid fire pistol24233
Ioannis Theofilakis50 m rifle, prone17332
600 m free rifle7934
300 m military rifle, 3 pos.6375
25 m small-bore rifle21421
100 m deer, single shots2429
50 m pistol44118
30 m rapid fire pistol26323
Iakovos Theofilas50 m rifle, prone16737
600 m free rifle1385
300 m military rifle, 3 pos.6672
25 m small-bore rifle11636
Nikolaos Levidis
Frangiskos Mavrommatis
Ioannis Theofilakis
Iakovos Theofilas
25 m team small-bore rifle7164
50 m team small-bore rifle7085
Frangiskos Mavrommatis
Georgios Petropoulos
Konstantinos Skarlatos
Ioannis Theofilakis
30 m team military pistol10575
Frangiskos Mavrommatis
Konstantinos Skarlatos
Alexandros Theofilakis
Ioannis Theofilakis
30 m team military pistol17315
Nikolaos Levidis
Frangiskos Mavrommatis
Spyridon Mostras
Alexandros Theofilakis
Ioannis Theofilakis
Iakovos Theofilas
Team rifle14457

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Greco-Roman

Greece was represented by a single wrestler in its second Olympic wrestling appearance, its first since the 1896 Games in Athens. Antonopoulos lost his first two matches in the middleweight class and was eliminated at 26th place.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Greece at the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games . 8 November 2014 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141108165223/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/GRE/summer/1912/ . 8 November 2014 . dmy-all .