Olympic Summer Games 1896 / Participant (Greece)

GRE

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10	17th	19th

The Kingdom of Greece took part in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens as the host country with 169 athletes and thus with the most athletes. The Greeks competed in nine disciplines.

Medalist

Olympic champion

Name (s)	sport	competition
Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	do gymnastics	Rope climbing
Ioannis Georgiadis	fencing	saber
Pantelis Karasevdas	shoot	Military rifle 200 m
Aristidis Konstantinidis	Cycling	Road racing
Spiridon Louis	athletics	marathon
Ioannis Malokinis	swim	100 m sailor swimming
Ioannis Mitropoulos	do gymnastics	Rings
Georgios Orfanidis	shoot	300 m military rifle
Ioannis Frangoudis	shoot	gun
Leonidas Pyrgos	fencing	Foil for fencing masters

Second place

Surname	sport	competition
Ioannis Andreou	swim	1200 m freestyle
Spyridon Chazapis	swim	100 m sailor swimming
Miltiadis Gouskos	athletics	Shot put
Tilemachos caracalus	fencing	saber
Dionysios Kasdaglis	tennis	singles
Georgios Kolettis	Cycling	100 km
Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Cycling	333 m
		2000 m
Georgios Orfanidis	shoot	gun
Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos	athletics	Discus throw
Pavlos Pavlidis	shoot	Military rifle 200 m
Antonios Pepanos	swim	500 m freestyle
Ioannis Frangoudis	shoot	300 m military rifle
Georgios Tsitas	Wrestling	Greco-Roman
Charilaos Vasilakos	athletics	marathon
Thomas Xenakis	do gymnastics	Rope climbing
Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Sotirios Athanasopoulos Petros Persakis Thomas Xenakis +29 other unknown Turner	do gymnastics	Parallel bars team

third

Surname	sport	competition
Efstathios Chorafas	swim	500 m freestyle
		1200 m freestyle
Stefanos Christopoulos	Wrestling	Greco-Roman
Evangelos Damascos	athletics	Pole vault
Dimitrios Drivas	swim	100 m sailor swimming
Dimitrios Golemis	athletics	800 m
Nikolaos Morakis	shoot	Service revolver
Alexandros Nikolopoulos	Weightlifting	One-armed
Georgios papasideris	athletics	Shot put
Konstantinos Paspatis	tennis	singles
Ioannis Persakis	athletics	Triple jump
Petros Persakis	do gymnastics	Rings
Ioannis Frangoudis	shoot	revolver
Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis	fencing	foil
Ioannis Theodoropoulos	athletics	Shot put
Nikolaos Trikoupis	shoot	200 m military rifle
Sotirios Versis	athletics	Discus throw
	Weightlifting	Two-armed
Ioannis Chrysaphis Ioannis Mitropoulos Filippos Karvelas Dimitrios Loundras +15 more unknown Turner	do gymnastics	Parallel bars team

Participants by sport

fencing

discipline	space	Surname	Points		Touches		round	final
			For	against	For	against
foil	3	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis	2	1	7th	4th	Second group A	DNS
	4th	Athanasios Vouros	2	1	8th	4th	Second group B	DNS
	5	Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis	1	2	5	7th	Third group B	DNS
	7th	Georgios Balakakis	0	3	3	9	Fourth group B	DNS
		Ioannis Poulos	0	3	4th	9	Fourth group A	DNS
Foil for fencing masters	1	Leonidas Pyrgos	1	0	3	1	n. discharged	won 3-1
saber	1	Ioannis Georgiadis	4th	0	12	6th	First	n. discharged
	2	Tilemachos caracalus	3	1	11	5	Second	n. discharged
	5	Georgios Iatridis	0	4th	3	12	fifth	n. discharged

Weightlifting

In the one-handed discipline, weightlifters had to successfully lift weights with each hand. Nikolopoulos was able to lift 57 kg with one hand but only lifted 40 kg with the other. Therefore, he was listed as third.

discipline	space	Surname	Best attempt
One handed	3	Alexandros Nikolopoulos	57 kg 40 kg
	4th	Sotirios Versis	40 kg
Two-handed	3	Sotirios Versis	90 kg
	4th	Georgios papasideris	40 kg

athletics

Athletes	competition	leader		final		rank
		time	rank	time	rank
Men
Alexandros Chalcocondylis	100 m	12.8 s	2	12.6 s	5	5
Georgios Gennimatas	100 m	unknown	4/5	eliminated

discipline	space	Surname	Preliminary decision	final
800 meters	3	Dimitrios Golemis	2: 16.8 min	2: 28.0 min
	-	Angelos Fetsis	Unknown	DNS
		Dimitrios Tomprof	Unknown
1500 meters	5	Angelos Fetsis	not carried out	Unknown
	6th	Dimitrios Golemis		Unknown
	-	Konstantinos Karakatsanis		Unknown
		Dimitrios Tomprof		Unknown
110 meter hurdles	-	Athanasios Skaltsogiannis	Unknown	DNS
		Anastasios Andreou	Unknown
marathon	1	Spiridon Louis	Not carried out	2:58:50 h
	2	Charilaos Vasilakos		3:06:03 h
	4th	Ioannis Vrettos		Unknown
	5	Eleftherios Papasymeon		Unknown
	6th	Dimitrios Deligiannis		Unknown
	7th	Evangelos Gerakeris		Unknown
	8th	Stamatios Masouris		Unknown
	-	Ioannis Lavrentis		Not finished
		Georgios Grigoriou
		Iliad Kafetzis
		Dimitrios Christopoulos
		Spyridon Belokas		Disqualified

discipline	space	Surname	Best value
Long jump	4th	Alexandros Chalcocondylis	5.74 m
	-	Athanasios Skaltsogiannis	Unknown
Triple jump	3	Ioannis Persakis	12.52 m
	-	Christos Zoumis	Unknown
Pole vault	3	Evangelos Damascos	2.60 m
		Ioannis Theodoropoulos
	5	Vasilios Xydas	2.40 m
Shot put	2	Miltiadis Gouskos	11.03 m
	3	Georgios papasideris	10.36 m
Discus throw	2	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos	28.95 m
	3	Sotirios Versis	27.78 m
	-	Georgios papasideris	Unknown

Cycling

discipline	space	Surname	time
333 meters	2	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	26.0 s
2000 meters	2	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	5: 00.2 min
10,000 meters	-	Aristidis Konstantinidis	DNF
	-	Georgios Kolettis	DNF
100 kilometers	2	Georgios Kolettis	Unknown
	-	Aristidis Konstantinidis	DNF
12 hours	-	Georgios Paraskevopoulos	DNF
		Nikos Loverdos
		A. Tryfiatis-Trypiapis
		Konstantinos Konstantinou
Road racing	1	Aristidis Konstantinidis	3:22:31 h
	5	Georgios Aspiotis
	6th	Miltiadis Iatrou
	4th	Konstantinos Konstantinou
	?	Georgios Paraskevopoulos

Wrestling

discipline	space	Surname	Quarter finals	Semifinals	final
Greco-Roman	2	Georgios Tsitas	Bye	won	lost
	3	Stefanos Christopoulos	won	lost	DNS

shoot

discipline	space	Surname	Points	Hit
Military rifle 200 m	1	Pantelis Karasevdas	2350	40
	2	Pavlos Pavlidis	1978	38
	3	Nikolaos Trikoupis	1713	34
	4th	Anastasios Metaxas	1701	Unknown
	5	Georgios Orfanidis	1698	Unknown
	7th	Georgios Diamantis	1456	Unknown
	9	Ioannis Theofilakis	1261	Unknown
	11	Alexios Fetsis	894	Unknown
	12	Spyridon Stais	845	Unknown
	-	Aristovoulos Petmezas	Unknown
		G. Karagiannopoulos	Unknown
		22 others, unknown	Unknown
300 m military rifle	1	Georgios Orfanidis	1583	37
	2	Ioannis Frangoudis	1312	31
	4th	Anastasios Metaxas	1102	Unknown
	5	Pantelis Karasevdas	1039
	-	Antelothanasis	Unknown
		Georgios Diamantis	Unknown
		Alexios Fetsios	Unknown
		Karakatsanis	Unknown
		Hatzidakis	Unknown
		Nikolaos Levidis	Unknown
		Xenon Mikhailidis	Unknown
		Moustakopoulos	Unknown
		Pavlos Pavlidis	Unknown
		Alexandros Theofilakis	Unknown
		Ioannis Theofilakis	Unknown
		Nikolaos Trikupis	Unknown
	-	Leonidas Lanngakis	DNF
		Ioannis Vourakis	Unknown
Service revolver	3	Nikolaos Morakis	205	Unknown
	4th	Ioannis Frangoudis	Unknown
	-	Zenon Michailidis	Unknown
		Georgios Orfanidis	Unknown
		Pantazidis	Unknown
		Patsouris	Unknown
		Pavlos Pavlidis	Unknown
		Aristovoulos Petmezas	Unknown
		Platis	Unknown
		Vavis	Unknown
	-	Pantelis Karasevdas	DNF
		Sanidis	Unknown
gun	1	Ioannis Frangoudis	344	23
	2	Georgios Orfanidis	249	20th
revolver	3	Ioannis Frangoudis	Unknown
	4th	Leonidas Morakis	Unknown
	5	Georgios Orfanidis	Unknown

swim

discipline	space	Surname	time
100 meters freestyle	-	Georgios Anninos	DNF
		Efstathios Chorafas
		Alexandros Khrysafus
		Four more, unknown
400 meters freestyle	2	Antonios Pepanos	9: 57.6 min
	3	Efstathios Chorofas	Unknown
1200 meters freestyle	2	Ioannis Andreou	21: 03.4 min
	3	Efstathios Chorofas	Unknown
	-	N. Katravas
		Three more, unknown
100 meter sailor swimming	1	Ioannis Malokinis	2: 20.4 min
	2	Spyridon Chazapis	Unknown
	3	Dimitrios Drivas

tennis

discipline	space	Surname	Round 1	Quarter finals	Semifinals	final
singles	2	Dionysios Kasdaglis	won	won	won	lost
	3	Konstantinos Paspatis	won	won	lost	DNS
	5	Aristidis Akratopoulos	won	lost	DNS
		Konstantinos Akratopoulos	won	lost
		Evangelos Rallis	won	lost
	8th	D. Frangopoulos	lost	DNS
		Dimitrios Petrococci cinemas	lost
Double	2	Dionysios Kasdaglis Dimitrios Petrococci cinema	Not carried out	won	won	lost
	4th	Aristidis Akratopoulos Konstantinos Akratopoulos		lost	DNS
		Konstantinos Paspatis Evangelos Rallis		lost

do gymnastics

discipline	space	Surname
Ingot single	-	Filippos Karvelas
		Ioannis Mitropoulos
		Antonios Papaioannou
Horizontal bar single	-	Antonios Papaioannou
		Leonidas Tsiklitiras
Pommel horse	-	Aristovoulos Petmezas
Rings	1	Ioannis Mitropoulos
	3	Petros Persakis

Web links

• Greek Olympic team from 1896 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results 10 km track
2. ↑ Results road races
3. ↑ Results 100 m