Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Greece)

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Greece took the 72 athletes 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the swimmer Charalampos Taiganidis . He was the most successful athlete in the Greek team with two gold, three silver and one bronze medal alone.

Participants by sport

Boccia

Women

• Maria Stavropoulou
• Sotiria Tsetsou

Men

• Tamaz Khabazi
• Dimitrios Michos
• Spyridon Michos
• Grigorios Polychronidis , 1 × (single mixed, class BC3)

Archery

Women

• Anna Tzika

Men

• Romaios Roumeliotis

Judo

Women

• Maria Keramida
• Theoklitos Papachristos

athletics

Women

• Alexandra Dimoglou , 1 × (400 meters, class T13), 2 × (100 meters, 200 meters; class T13)
• Marika Garefa
• Paraskevi Kantza
• Anthi Karagianni , 1 × (long jump, class F13)
• Aikaterini Michou
• Nikoletta Pavlidou
• Maria Stamatoula , 1 × (shot put, class F32-34 / 52/53)
• Anastasia Triantafyllidou

Men

• Dimitrios Axiotis
• Athanasios Barakas , 1 × (long jump, class F11)
• Minas Charakopoulos
• Damianos Daktylidis
• Athanasios Deligiorgis
• Che Jon Fernandes , 1 × (shot put, class F53 / 54)
• Marinos Fylachtos
• Nektarios Giallourakis
• Efthymios Kalaras
• Pantelis Kalogeros
• Christos Kapellas
• Georgios Karaminas
• Efthymios Kleitsogiannis
• Alexandros Michail Konstantinidis
• Ioannis Letkas
• Aristotelis Marinos
• Iliad Nalmpantis
• Georgios Pappas
• Ioannis Protos , 1 × (400 meters, class T13)
• Paschalis Stathelakos , 1 × (shot put, class F40)
• Anastasios Tsiou , 1 × (shot put, class F57 / 58)
• Gerasimos Vryonis
• Dimitrios Zisidis

Powerlifting (bench press)

Women

• Anastasia Kazantzidou

Men

• Dimitrios anatolitis
• Nikolaos Gkountanis
• Pavlos Mamalos , 1 × (class up to 82.50 kg)
• Gkremislav Moysiadis

Cycling

Men

• Ioannis Kalaitzakis
• Stamatios Kotzias

Wheelchair fencing

Men

• Georgios Alexakis
• Emmanouil Bogdos
• Pylarinos Markanonatos
• Georgios Lazaridis

shoot

Women

• Eleni Zampoura

Men

• Panagiotis Giannoukaris
• Evangelos Kakosaios

swim

Women

• Maria Kalpakidou
• Maria Liaskou

Men

• Konstantinos Fykas
• Georgios Kapellakis , 1 × (50 meters freestyle, class S2), 1 × (100 meters freestyle, class S2), 2 × (50 meters back, 200 meters freestyle; class S2)
• Konstantinos Karaouzas
• Andreas Katsaros , 1 × (50 meters back, class S1)
• Ioannis Kostakis
• Charalampos Taiganidis , 2 × (100 meters back, 100 meters freestyle; class S13), 3 × (50 meters freestyle, 100 meters butterfly, class S13; 200 meters medley, class SM13); 1 × (400 meters freestyle, class S13)
• Christos Tampaxis , 1 × (50 meters back, class S1)
• Alexandros Taxildaris
• Vasileos Tsagkaris
• Stylianos Tsakonas
• Nikolaos Tsotras

sailing

Men

• Theodoros Alexas
• Vasileios Christoforou
• Georgios Delikouras
• Nikolaos Paterakis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )