1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Greece)

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Greece took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki with 48 male athletes in 24 competitions in seven sports.

Since 1896 , it was the twelfth time Greece had taken part in the Summer Olympics . This made Greece, along with Australia , France , Switzerland , the United Kingdom and the USA, one of the six nations that had previously participated in all the Summer Olympics.

Flag bearer

The discus thrower Nikolaos Syllas carried the flag of Greece during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium .

Participants by sport

basketball

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• Stylianos Arvanitis ( Panathinaikos Athens ), Themistoklis Kholevas ( Panellinios Athens ), Ioannis Lambrou (Panathinaikos), Panagiotis Manias (Panellinios), Fedon Matthaiou (Panathinaikos), Nikolaos Milas (Panathinaikos), Konstantinos Papadimis (Panellinis) ), Konstantinos Papadimas (Panellinios) Alexandros Spanoudakis ( Olympiacos Piraeus ), Ioannis Spanoudakis (Olympiacos), Dimitrios Stefanidis (Panellinios) and Dimitrios Taliadoros ( XAN Thessaloniki )

  Qualification , group B: not qualified for the main round with one win and two losses, rank 17

  38:75 defeat against Hungary 

  54:52 victory over Israel 

  Play-off: 44:47 defeat against Hungary

Soccer

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• Goulielmos Arvanitis , Athanasios Bembis , Georgios Darivas , Kharalambos Drosos , Pavlos Emmanouilidis , Ioannis Ioannou , Konstantinos Linoxylakis , Ilias Papageorgiou , Nikolaos Pentzaropoulos , Konstantinos Poulis and Ilias Rosidis ; Coach: Antonis Migiakis

  Preliminary round : with a defeat not qualified for the round of 16

  July 15th in Tampere , 4,372 spectators: 1: 2 defeat against Denmark 

  The goal scorer to 1: 2 in the 85th minute was Pavlos Emmanouilidis

athletics

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100 m

• Stefanos Petrakis

  Preliminary runs : in run 3 (rank 6) with 11.2 s (hand-stopped) or 11.33 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

200 m

• Stefanos Petrakis

  Preliminary runs : in run 2 (3rd place) with 22.4 s (hand-stopped) or 22.64 s (electronically) not qualified for the quarter-finals

• Vasilios Sillis

  Preliminary runs: in run 10 (4th place) with 22.7 s (hand-stopped) or 22.88 s (electronically) not qualified for the quarter-finals

400 m

• Vasilios Sillis

  Preliminary runs : in run 7 (rank 5) with 48.4 s (hand-stopped) or 48.56 s (electronic) not qualified for the quarter-finals

800 m

• Vasilios Mavroidis

  Preliminary runs : in run 3 (rank 6), 1: 58.7 minutes (hand-stopped) not qualified for the semi-finals

1500 m

• Vasilios Mavroidis

  Preliminary runs : in run 4 (rank 9) with 4: 07.8 minutes (hand-stopped) not qualified for the semi-finals

400 m hurdles

• Fotios Kosmas

  Prelims : Qualified for the quarter-finals in run 3 (rank 2) with 53.9 s (hand-stopped)

  Quarter-finals : in run 2 (rank 5) with 55.3 s (hand-stopped) or 55.50 s (electronically) not qualified for the semi-finals

Pole vault

• Theodosios Balafas

  Qualification , group A: 4.00 m, rank 6, qualified for the final

  3.60 m, without a failed attempt

  3.80 m, without a failed attempt

  3.90 m, without a failed attempt

  4.00 m, a failed attempt

  Final : 3.80 m, 17th place

  3.60 m, without a failed attempt

  3.80 m, without a failed attempt

  3.95 m, three failed attempts

• Rigas Efstathiadis

  Qualification, group A: 4.00 m, rank 4, qualified for the final

  3.60 m, without a failed attempt

  3.80 m, without a failed attempt

  3.90 m, a failed attempt

  4.00 meters: valid, without a failed attempt

  Final: 3.80 m, rank 14

  3.60 m left out

  3.80 m, without a failed attempt

  3.95 m, without a failed attempt

  4.10 m, three failed attempts

• Georgios Roumbanis

  Qualification, Group B: Eliminated without a valid amount

Triple jump

• Vasilios Sakellarakis

  Qualification , group B: 14.05 m, rank 14, not qualified for the final

  1st jump: 14.05 m

  2nd jump: 13.73 m

  3rd jump: 13.68 m

Shot put

• Konstantinos Giataganas

  Qualification : 14.05 m, rank 18, not qualified for the final

  1st stroke: 12.06 m

  2nd stroke: 14.05 m

  3rd shock: invalid

Discus throw

• Konstantinos Giataganas

  Qualification , group B: 46.05 m, rank 10, qualified for the final

  1st litter: 44.88 m

  2nd litter: 46.05 m

  3rd litter: left out

  Final : 46.23 meters, 15th place

  4th litter: 42.40 m

  5th litter: 46.23 m

  6th litter: invalid

• Nikolaos Syllas

  Qualification, group B: 47.84 m, rank 1, qualified for the final

  1st litter: 47.84 m

  2nd litter: left out

  2nd litter: left out

  Final: 48.99 m, 9th place

  4th litter: 48.99 m

  5th litter: 48.36 m

  6th litter: 47.17 m

Decathlon

• Fotios Kosmas

  Final: competition not ended

  100 meter run, 11.5 s (hand-stopped) or 11.53 s (automatically stopped) / 737 points, rank 12; total: 737 points, rank 12

  Long jump: 6.20 m / 562 points, rank 24; total 1,299 points, rank 12

  the third discipline, the shot put, no longer started

Wrestling

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Greco-Roman

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

• Sotirios Panagiotopoulos

  eliminated in round one against Reidar Merli from Norway (0: 3)

Lightweight (up to 67 kg)

• Georgios Petmezas

  eliminated after round two with six minus points

  Round one: lost to Mikuláš Athanasov from Czechoslovakia (0: 3)

  Round two: Eliminated against Erich Schmidt from Saarland (0: 3)

Heavy weight (over 87 kg)

• Antonios Georgoulis

  eliminated after three rounds with six minus points, sixth place

  Round one: won against Adolfo Ramírez from Argentina (shoulder win)

  Round two: lost to Willi Waltner from Germany (0: 3)

  Round three: eliminated against Alexandru Șuli from Romania (0: 3)

rowing

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Two with a helmsman

• Grigorios Emmanouil , Iraklis Klangas and Nikolaos Nikolaou

  Preliminary runs: in run 4 (4th place) with 8: 24.1 minutes qualified for the hope runs

  Preliminary runs, hope runs: in run 1 (3rd place) with 8: 12.9 min. Not qualified for the semifinals

shoot

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Small caliber lying

• Athanasios Aravositas

  Final: 384 rings, 19 direct hits, rank 49

  1st round: 92 rings, rank 57

  2nd round: 98 rings, rank 26

  3rd round: 99 rings, rank 25

  4th round: 95 rings, rank 55

Free target gun

• Georgios Stathis

  Final: 496 rings, rank 43

  1st round: 75 points, 46th place

  2nd round: 91 points, 09th place

  3rd round: 95 points, 01st place

  4th round: 80 points, 46th place

  5th round: 75 points, rank 47

  6th round: 80 points, rank 44

Rapid fire pistol

• Konstantinos Mylonas

  Final: 553 rings, 58 hits, 46th place

  1st round: 271 rings, 29 hits, rank 34

  2nd round: 262 rings, 29 hits, rank 45

• Angelos Papadimas

  Final: 506 rings, 56 hits, rank 51

  1st round: 273 rings, 30 hits, rank 32

  2nd round: 233 rings, 26 hits, rank 51

Clay pigeon shooting

• Ioannis Koutsis

  Final: 187 points, 6th place

  1st round: 90 points, 15th place

  2nd round: 97 points, 02nd place

• Panagiotis Linardakis

  Final: 175 points, rank 24

  1st round: 84 points, rank 27

  2nd round: 91 points, 19th place

sailing

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Finn dinghy

• Antonios Modinos

  Final: 921 points, rank 26

  1st race: 226 points, 1:29:23 hours, 21st place

  2nd race: 133 points, 1:54:08 hours, rank 26

  3rd race: not finished

  4th race: 186 points, 1:27:32 hours, 23rd place

  5th race: 150 points, 1:36:13 hours, 25th place

  6th race: 226 points, 1:29:40 hours, 21st place

  7th race: not finished

star

• Timoleon Razelos and Andreas Ziro

  Final: 1,983 points, 15th place

  1st race: 144 points, 19th place

  2nd race: 219 points, 16th place

  3rd race: 423 points, 10th place

  4th race: 645 points, 06th place

  5th race: 168 points, 18th place

  6th race: 219 points, 16th place

  7th race: 309 points, 13th place

Web links

• Helsinki 1952 - Official Site of the Olympic Movement (English) .
• Greek Olympic team 1952 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).