Greece at the 1968 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	GRE
Nocname:	Hellenic Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1968
Website:
Competitors:	44 (44 men and 0 women)
Sports:	7
Flagbearer:	Khristos Papanikolaou
Rank:	42
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Greece competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 44 competitors, all men, took part in 27 events in 7 sports.^[1] Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Christos Papanikolaou, pole vault (5,35 m): 4th place

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Seven shooters, all men, represented Greece in 1968.

25 m pistol

• Alkiviadis Papageorgopoulos

50 m rifle, prone

• Lambis Manthos
• Ioannis Skarafingas

Trap

• Georgios Pangalos
• Markos Tzoumaras

Skeet

• Panagiotis Xanthakos
• Menelaos Mikhailidis

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Lost to Netherlands (5:9)

• Lost to Japan (7:8)

• Defeated United Arab Republic (7:6)

• Lost to East Germany (4:11)

• Lost to Mexico (8:11)

• Lost to Yugoslavia (1:11)

• Lost to Italy (2:6)
• Classification Matches

• 13th/14th place: Lost to Brazil (2:5) → Fourteenth place
• Team Roster

• Andreas Garifallos

• Dimitrios Kougevetopoulos

• Georgios Palikaris

• Georgios Theodorakopoulos

• Ioannis Palios

• Ioannis Thimaras

• Kyriakos Iosifidis

• Nikolaos Tsangas

• Panagiotis Mathioudakis

• Panagiotis Mikhalos

• Thomas Karalogos

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Greece at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games . 25 December 2015 . Sports Reference . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160121094009/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/GRE/summer/1968/ . 21 January 2016 . dmy-all .