Greece at the 2024 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	GRE
Nocname:	Hellenic Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2024
Location:	Paris,
Website:
Competitors:	100
Sports:	16
Rank:	51
Gold:	1
Silver:	1
Bronze:	6
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Greece competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with a team of 101 athletes in 17 sports. Greek athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Great Britain, and Switzerland. As the progenitor nation of the Olympic Games and in keeping with the tradition, Greece entered first at Place du Trocadéro during the parade of nations segment of the opening ceremony.

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Miltiadis Tentoglou	Athletics	Men's long jump
	Apostolos Christou	Swimming	Men's 200 m backstroke
	Theodoros Tselidis	Judo	Men's –90 kg
	Antonios Papakonstantinou Petros Gkaidatzis	Rowing	Men's lightweight double sculls
	Zoi Fitsiou Milena Kontou	Rowing	Women's lightweight double sculls
	Eleftherios Petrounias	Gymnastics	Men's rings
	Emmanouil Karalis	Athletics	Men's pole vault
	Dauren Kurugliev	Wrestling	Men's freestyle –86 kg

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Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	1	1	5	7
Female	0	0	1	1
Total	1	1	6	8

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=f7f6a8		bgcolor=dce5e5		bgcolor=ffdab9		Total
Athletics	bgcolor=F7F6A8	1	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	2
Gymnastics	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	1
Judo	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	1
Rowing	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	2	2
Swimming	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	1	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	1
Wrestling	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	1
Total	1	1	6	8

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Medals by date
Day	Date	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		Total
Day 1	27 July	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 2	28 July	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 3	29 July	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 4	30 July	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 5	31 July	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	1
Day 6	1 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	1	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	1
Day 7	2 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	2	2
Day 8	3 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 9	4 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	1
Day 10	5 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	1
Day 11	6 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	1	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	1
Day 12	7 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 13	8 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 14	9 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	1	1
Day 15	10 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Day 16	11 August	bgcolor=F7F6A8	0	bgcolor=DCE5E5	0	bgcolor=FFDAB9	0	0
Total		1	1	6	8

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Artistic swimming		2	2
Athletics	4	10	14
Basketball	12	0	12
Cycling	1	0	1
Equestrian	0	1	1
Fencing	0	1	1
Gymnastics	1	0	1
Judo	1	1	2
Rowing	3	4	7
Sailing	3	1	4
Shooting	2	3	5
Swimming	14	3	17
Table tennis	1	0	1
Tennis	2	2	4
Water polo	13	13	26
Wrestling	2	1	3
Total	59	42	101

Artistic swimming

See main article: Artistic swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Greece fielded a pair of artistic swimmers to compete in the women's duet as the top three highest-ranked nations, eligible for qualification at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Greek track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):^[1]

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Polyniki Emmanouilidou	Women's 100 m	11.25	4	Did not advance
Women's 200 m	23.06	4 R	22.99	3 q	23.18	8	Did not advance
Antigoni Drisbioti	Women's 20 km walk	1:31:33	22

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Emmanouil Karalis	Men's pole vault	5.75	=1 q	5.90
Miltiadis Tentoglou	Men's long jump	8.32	1 Q	8.48
Michalis Anastasakis	align=left rowspan=2	Men's hammer throw	70.14	29	Did not advance
Christos Frantzeskakis	75.53	11 q	73.34	12
Katerina Stefanidi	align=left rowspan=3	Women's pole vault	4.55	=9 q	4.70	9
Eleni-Klaoudia Polak			Did not advance
Ariadni Adamopoulou	4.40	=12 q
Tatiana Gusin	align=left rowspan=2	Women's high jump	1.92	8 q	1.86	9
Panagiota Dosi			Did not advance
Elina Tzengko	Women's javelin throw	63.22 SB	5 Q	61.85	9
Stamatia Scarveli	Women's hammer throw	69.38	17	Did not advance

Basketball

See main article: article and Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

5×5 basketball

Summary

Men's tournament

See main article: Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament. Greece men's basketball team, qualified by winning a 2024 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament.^[2]

Team roster

Group play--------

Quarterfinal

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Road

Greece qualified one rider to compete in the men's Olympic road race, by virtue of a finish in the top 50 national finish (for men) in the UCI World Ranking^{[3] [4]}

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Greece entered one riders in the individual jumping event, through the establishments of final olympics ranking for Group C (Central & Eastern Europe; Central Asia).^{[5] [6]}

Jumping

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Greece entered one fencer into the Olympic competition. Theodora Gkountoura secured her quota places in women's sabre events, after nominated as one of two highest ranked individual fencers, eligible for European zone through the release of the FIE Official ranking for Paris 2024.

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Artistic

On 7 October 2023, Eleftherios Petrounias secured a position in men's rings at the 2024 Summer Olympics, by winning a silver medal with 15.233 points at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp.^[7]

Men

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Theodoros Tselidis and Elisavet Teltsidou secured a position in their respective category by virtue of their world ranking.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Theodoros Tselidis	Men's −90 kg	W 10–00	W 10–00	L 00–01	Did not advance	W 10–00	W 01–00
Elisavet Teltsidou	Women's −70 kg		L 00–10	Did not advance				9

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Greek rowers qualified boats in the following classes through the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia and through the 2024 Final Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefanos Ntouskos	Men's single sculls	7:01.79	2 QF	6:56.68	3 SA/B	6:40.78	3 FA	7:02.05	6
Antonios Papakonstantinou Petros Gkaidatzis	Men's lightweight double sculls	6:46.90	3 R	6:39.46	1 SA/B	6:23.36	2 FA	6:13.44
Evangelia Anastasiadou Christina Bourmpou	Women's pair	7:20.49	2 SA/B	7:18.28	3 FA	7:13.30	6
Milena Kontou Zoi Fitsiou	Women's lightweight double sculls	7:08.51	2 SA/B	6:57.90	2 FA	6:49.28

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Greek sailors qualified three boats to compete at Paris 2024. All of the boats qualified through the 2024 Semaine Olympique Française (Last Chance Regatta) in Hyères, France.^[8]

Elimination events

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Rank	Race													Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13			QF	SF1	SF2	SF3	SF4	SF5	SF6	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5	F6
Byron Kokkalanis	Men's IQFoil	18	8	15		4	19		19		17	10	22	21	178	22 EL	Did not advance													22
Cameron Maramenides	Men's Formula Kite	9	10	6	12	8	7	14	39	11 EL		Did not advance												11

Medal race events

M = Medal race, EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race/quarterfinals/semifinals/final, DNF= Did not finish the race, BFD = Black Flag Disqualification – False start, DSQ = Disqualification, UFD = "U" Flag Disqualification

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Greek shooters achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2022 and 2023 ISSF World Championships, 2022, 2023, and 2024 European Championships, 2023 European Games, and 2024 ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Efthimios Mitas	align=left rowspan=2	Men's skeet	121	11	Did not advance
Charalampos Chalkadiakis	118	19	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Anna Korakaki	Women's 10 m air pistol			Did not advance
Women's 25 m pistol	570	34	Did not advance
Christina Moschi	Women's 10 m air pistol	569	29	Did not advance
Emmanouela Katzouraki	Women's skeet	122	3 Q	23	5
Emmanouela Katzouraki Efthimios Mitas	Mixed team skeet	139	=13	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Greek swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):^{[10] [11]}

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kristian Gkolomeev	align=left rowspan=2	Men's 50 m freestyle	21.86	=8 Q	21.62	7 Q	21.59	5
Stergios-Marios Bilas	22.00	18	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Apostolos Christou	Men's 100 m backstroke	52.95	3 Q	52.77	6 Q	52.41	4
Men's 200 m backstroke	1:57.18	7 Q	1:56.33	=4 Q	1:54.82
Apostolos Siskos	Men's 200 m backstroke	1:57.26	9 Q	1:57.77	14	Did not advance
Evangelos Makrygiannis	Men's 100 m backstroke	53.24	8 Q	52.97	9	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Dimitrios Markos	Men's 800 m freestyle	8:01.37	26	Did not advance
Men's 1500 m freestyle	15:11.19	19	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Apostolos Papastamos	Men's 200 m individual medley	2:00.79	16 Q	2:01.02	16	Did not advance
Men's 400 m individual medley	4:15.32	15	Did not advance
Odysseas Meladinis Stergios-Marios Bilas Panagiotis Bolanos Andreas Vazaios	Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:17.47	16	Did not advance
Andreas Vazaios Dimitrios Markos Konstantinos Englezakis Konstantinos Stamou	Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay	7:09.60	11	Did not advance
Athanasios Kynigakis	Men's 10 km open water	1:52:37.2	10
Anna Ntountounaki	Women's 100 m butterfly	58.14	19	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Georgia Damasioti	Women's 100 m butterfly	58.72	23	Did not advance
Women's 200 m butterfly	2:09.55	13 Q	2:10.25	15	Did not advance
Theodora Drakou	Women's 50 m freestyle	24.80	17	Did not advance
Anna Ntountounaki Theodora Drakou Apostolos Christou Evangelos-Efraim Ntoumas	Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay	3:46.40	13	Did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Greece entered one athlete into the games. Panagiotis Gionis secured his spot at the Games via winning the second available places for men's singles event, through the 2024 European Qualification Tournament in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[12]

Tennis

See main article: Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari secured a position in the Men's and Women's singles respectively by virtue of their world rankings on 10 June 2024. In addition, their combined ranking made them available to play together in the Mixed doubles tournament. Also, Petros Tsitsipas and Despina Papamichail qualified for their respective doubles event via combined ranking of them with that of Stefanos' and Maria's respectively. During the games, Petros was announced that he will play in the Men's singles due to withdrawal of Cameron Norrie.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Petros Tsitsipas	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	L 2–6, 3–6	Did not advance
Stefanos Tsitsipas	W 7–6^(8–6), 1–6, 6–1	W 6–1, 6–2	W 7–5, 6–1	L 3–6, 6–7^(3–7)	Did not advance
Maria Sakkari	Women's singles	W 6–0, 6–1	W 6–2, 6–1	L 6–4, 6–7^(5–7), 4–6	Did not advance
Petros Tsitsipas Stefanos Tsitsipas	Men's doubles		L 6–3, 3–6, [10–12]	Did not advance
Despina Papamichail Maria Sakkari	Women's doubles		L 1–6, 3–6	Did not advance
Maria Sakkari Stefanos Tsitsipas	Mixed doubles	L 4–6, 6–7^(3–7)	Did not advance

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Greece men's	Men's tournament	W 14–7	W 17–16	W 13–11	L 13–14	W 9–8	1 Q	L 11–12	Did not advance		5
Greece women's	Women's tournament	L 6–15	L 8–10	L 8–12	W 11–4		4 Q	L 6–9	Did not advance		7

Men's tournament

See main article: Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament. Greece men's national water polo team qualified for the Olympics by advancing to the final match and securing an outright berth at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.^[13]

Team roster

Group play----------------

Quarterfinal

5th–8th place semifinal

Fifth place game

Women's tournament

See main article: Water polo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament. Greece women's national water polo team qualified for the Olympics by placing third at the 2024 Women's European Water Polo Championship.^[14]

Team roster

Group play------------

Quarterfinal

5th–8th place semifinal

Seventh place game

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Greece qualified three wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Georgios Kougioumtsidis qualified for the games by virtue of top five results through the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia; meanwhile Dauren Kurugliev qualified for the games through the 2024 World Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey.^{[15] [16]} Maria Prevolaraki earned a spot in the Olympics due to reallocation with the Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN).

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Georgios Kougioumtsidis	Men's −74 kg	L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance
Dauren Kurugliev	Men's −86 kg	W 4–0 ^ST	L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance	W 4–0 ^ST	W 3–1 ^PP
Maria Prevolaraki	Women's −53 kg	L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance

See also

• Greece at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Notes and References

1. News: Athletics at Paris 2024: The entry standards. International Olympic Committee. 20 December 2022. 27 December 2022.
2. News: Greece Remains Undefeated Against Croatia, Clinches Paris 2024 Berth – FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament 2024, Piraeus, Greece. greekcitytimes.com. 7 July 2024.
3. News: Ποδηλασία: Ολυμπιακή πρόκριση για την Ελλάδα στην ποδηλασία δρόμου. Gazzetta.gr. 18 October 2023. 18 October 2023.
4. News: Road cycling at París 2024: Quota distribution for next Olympic Games decided following publication of UCI World Ranking by Nations. 18 October 2023. International Olympic Committee. 20 October 2023.
5. News: FEI publishes Olympic and Paralympic Rankings for Paris 2024. 2 January 2024. International Federation for Equestrian Sports. 3 January 2024.
6. News: ΠΑΡΙΣΙ 2024: Ιστορική πρόκριση στους Ολυμπιακούς από την Μυτηλιναίου!. Sportsfeed.gr. 2 January 2024. 2 January 2024.
7. Web site: Δευτεραθλητής Κόσμου – και πρόκριση στους Ολυμπιακούς για τον Πετρούνια!. Mezos. Soulis. 2023-10-07. el. 2023-10-07.
8. News: ΠΑΡΙΣΙ 2024: Κοκκαλάνης και Μαραμενίδης στους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες!. Sportsfeed. 25 April 2024. 25 April 2024.
9. Web site: Quota Places by Nation and Number. 1 January 2018. issf-sports.org/. ISSF. 18 September 2022.
10. Web site: Paris 2024 – Swimming Qualification. World Aquatics. 4 June 2023.
11. News: 7 May 2023. 4 June 2023. Apostolos Christou qualifies for 2024 Olympic Games. Hellenic Olympic Committee.
12. News: Τρομερός Γκιώνης! Για 6η φορά σε Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες!. 18 May 2024. Sportsfeed. 18 May 2024.
13. Web site: Hungary overcomes Greece in sudden-death shootout. worldaquatics.com. 29 July 2023 . 29 July 2023.
14. Web site: Dutch dominance continues: Netherlands crowned European Champions in Eindhoven. total-waterpolo.com. 13 January 2023.
15. News: Freestyle Wrestling: 2024 Paris Olympic Games Qualified Nations. 19 September 2023. United World Wrestling. 25 September 2023. 25 September 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230925171039/https://uww.org/article/freestyle-wrestling-2024-paris-olympic-games-qualified-nations. dead.
16. Web site: 1st Phase - 2023 Senior World Championships - Belgrade (SRB). United World Wrestling. 11 October 2023. 12 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231012070347/https://uww-prod-d8-filesystem.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2023-09/1st_phase_belgrade_qualified_nocs.pdf?VersionId=4Yt.hJhw2TsJsVKN8j7Z1U7JeReTbmZf. dead.