1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Greece)

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Greece took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 60 athletes (58 men and two women) in 46 competitions in nine sports. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the pole vaulter Christos Papanikolaou .

Medalist

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Petros Galaktopoulos	Wrestling	Men, welterweight, Greco-Roman
Iliad Chatzipavlis	sailing	Finn dinghy

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Athanasios Giannopoulos

  Middleweight: 1st round

• Evangelos Oikonomakos

  Light Middleweight: Round of 16

• Angelos Theotokatos

  Featherweight: 2nd round

• Panagiotis Therianos

  Welterweight: 2nd round

fencing

Men

• Ioannis Chatzisarantos

  Saber, singles: 1st round

• Panagiotis Dourakos

  Epee, singles: 2nd round

• Andreas Vgenopoulos

  Foil, singles: 1st round

  Epee, singles: 1st round

Weightlifting

Men

• Christos Iakovou

  Lightweight: 5th place

• Nikos Iliadis

  Middle heavyweight: 11th place

• Panagiotis Spyrou

  Middleweight: 12th place

• Eleftherios Stefanoudakis

  Lightweight: 17th place

athletics

Men

• Georgios Georgiadis

  Hammer throw: 26th place in qualification

• Spyridon Kontosoros

  3000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Ioannis Kousoulas

  High jump: 26th place

• Loukas Louka

  Shot put: 25th place in qualification

• Stavros Moutaftsidis

  Hammer throw: 15th place

• Panagiotis Nakopoulos

  3000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Kyriakos Onisiforou

  400 meters: quarter-finals

• Vasilios Papadimitriou

  High jump: 12th place

• Vasilis Papageorgopoulos

  100 meters: quarter-finals

• Christos Papanikolaou

  Pole vault: 11th place

• Stavros Tziortzis

  400 meter hurdles: 6th place

• Spilios Zacharopoulos

  1500 meters: semi-finals

Wrestling

Men

• Petros Galaktopoulos

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: silver

• Vasilios Ganotis

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: 4th round

• Stefanos Ioannidis

  Lightweight, freestyle: 4th round

• Georgios Chatziioannidis

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Panagiotis Koutsoupakis

  Featherweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Othon Moschidis

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 4th round

• Stylianos Migiakis

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

• Sotirios Nakos

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 2nd round

• Sotiris Ventas

  Light flyweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

shoot

• Lakis Georgiou

  Skeet: 8th place

• Dimitrios Kotronis

  Free pistol: 38th place

• Lambis Manthos

  Small caliber, lying: 27th place

• Ioannis Skarafingas

  Small caliber, lying: 26th place

• Panagiotis Xanthakos

  Skeet: 21st place

swim

Men Dimitrios Karydis 100 meter butterfly: prelims Theodoros Koutoumanis 100 meter chest: heats Dimitrios Theodoropoulos 400 meters freestyle: prelims 1500 meters: disqualified in the heats

Women Eleni Avlonitou 400 meters freestyle: prelims 800 meters freestyle: prelims 200 meter medley: prelims 400 meter individual medley: prelims Mairi Ioannidou 100 meter chest: heats 200 meters chest: heats

sailing

• Iliad Chatzipavlis

  Finn dinghy: silver

• Antonios Bonas & Christos Bonas (& Anastasios Vatistas )
  Christos Bonas took part in the first four races, Anastasios Vatistas took his place in the last three races

  Flying Dutchman: 22nd place

• Ioannis Giapalakis , Ioannis Kiousis & Panagiotis Michail

  Dragons: 17th place

Water polo

Men's tournament

• 14th place

• Squad

  Periclis Damascus

  Kyriakos Iossifidis

  Ioannis Karalogos

  Thomas Karalogos

  Dimitrios Konstas

  Dimitrios Kougevetopoulos

  Panagiotis Michalos

  Ioannis Palios

  Efstathios Sarantos

  Georgios Theodorakopoulos

  Evangelos Voultsos

Web links

• Greek Olympic team from 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )