Greece at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Greece at the; 1896 Summer Olympics
IOC code	GRE
NOC	Hellenic Olympic Committee
Website	www.hoc.gr (in Greek) (in English)
in Athens
Competitors	169 in 9 sports
Medals; Ranked 2nd	Gold 10 Silver 17 Bronze 19 Total 46
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1896; 1900; 1904; 1908; 1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020;
Other related appearances
	1906 Intercalated Games

Greece was the host nation of the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens. The number of Greek contestants is commonly cited as 169, but as many as 176 Greeks^[1] contested events in all nine sports. The Greeks were by far the most successful nation in terms of total medals with 46, 26 more than the United States of America. Nevertheless, their number of first-place finishes (10) was one fewer than the Americans' 11. The Greeks had 172 entries in 39 events. Only 4 events had no Greek entrants—the 400 metres and the high jump in athletics and the vault and the team horizontal bar in gymnastics.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Spyridon Louis	Athletics	Men's marathon
Gold	Aristidis Konstantinidis	Cycling	Men's road race
Gold	Leonidas Pyrgos	Fencing	Men's masters foil
Gold	Ioannis Georgiadis	Fencing	Men's sabre
Gold	Ioannis Mitropoulos	Gymnastics	Men's rings
Gold	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	Gymnastics	Men's rope climbing
Gold	Pantelis Karasevdas	Shooting	Men's 200 m military rifle
Gold	Georgios Orphanidis	Shooting	Men's 300 m free rifle, three positions
Gold	Ioannis Frangoudis	Shooting	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol
Gold	Ioannis Malokinis	Swimming	Men's sailors 100 m freestyle
Silver	Charilaos Vasilakos	Athletics	Men's marathon
Silver	Miltiadis Gouskos	Athletics	Men's shot put
Silver	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Silver	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Cycling	Men's sprint
Silver	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Cycling	Men's time trial
Silver	Georgios Kolettis	Cycling	Men's 100 km
Silver	Tilemachos Karakalos	Fencing	Men's sabre
Silver	Thomas Xenakis	Gymnastics	Men's rope climbing
Silver	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Spyridon Athanasopoulos, Petros Persakis, Thomas Xenakis	Gymnastics	Men's team parallel bars
Silver	Pavlos Pavlidis	Shooting	Men's 200 m military rifle
Silver	Ioannis Frangoudis	Shooting	Men's 300 m free rifle, three positions
Silver	Georgios Orphanidis	Shooting	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol
Silver	Antonios Pepanos	Swimming	Men's 500 m freestyle
Silver	Ioannis Andreou	Swimming	Men's 1200 m freestyle
Silver	Spyridon Chazapis	Swimming	Men's sailors 100 m freestyle
Silver	Dionysios Kasdaglis	Tennis	Men's singles
Silver	Dionysios Kasdaglis, Demetrios Petrokokkinos	Tennis	Men's doubles
Silver	Georgios Tsitas	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman
Bronze	Dimitrios Golemis	Athletics	Men's 800 m
Bronze	Evangelos Damaskos	Athletics	Men's pole vault
Bronze	Ioannis Theodoropoulos	Athletics	Men's pole vault
Bronze	Ioannis Persakis	Athletics	Men's triple jump
Bronze	Georgios Papasideris	Athletics	Men's shot put
Bronze	Sotirios Versis	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Bronze	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis	Fencing	Men's foil
Bronze	Petros Persakis	Gymnastics	Men's rings
Bronze	Ioannis Chrysafis, Filippos Karvelas, Dimitrios Loundras, Ioannis Mitropoulos	Gymnastics	Men's team parallel bars
Bronze	Nikolaos Trikoupis	Shooting	Men's 200 m military rifle
Bronze	Nikolaos Morakis	Shooting	Men's 25 m military pistol
Bronze	Ioannis Frangoudis	Shooting	Men's 30 m free pistol
Bronze	Efstathios Chorafas	Swimming	Men's 500 m freestyle
Bronze	Efstathios Chorafas	Swimming	Men's 1200 m freestyle
Bronze	Dimitrios Drivas	Swimming	Men's sailors 100 m freestyle
Bronze	Konstantinos Paspatis	Tennis	Men's singles
Bronze	Alexandros Nikolopoulos	Weightlifting	Men's one hand lift
Bronze	Sotirios Versis	Weightlifting	Men's two hand lift
Bronze	Stephanos Christopoulos	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman

Results by event

Athletics

The Greeks entered every event on the athletics program save the 400 metres and the high jump. They took 1 gold, 3 silver, and 6 bronze medals in the sport. It was initially thought that the Greek team had swept the top three places of the marathon event, until it was discovered that Spiridon Belokas had covered part of the distance by cart and was disqualified.

Event	Place	Athlete	Heat	Final

100 metres	5th	Alexandros Chalkokondylis	12.75 seconds	12.6 seconds
100 metres	–	Georgios Gennimatas	Unknown	Did not advance

800 metres	3rd	Dimitrios Golemis	2:16.8	2:28.0
	–	Angelos Fetsis	Unknown	Did not advance
	–	Dimitrios Tomprof	Unknown	Did not advance

1500 metres	5th	Angelos Fetsis	No heats	Unknown
	6th	Dimitrios Golemis		Unknown
	–	Konstantinos Karakatsanis		Unknown
	–	Dimitrios Tomprof		Unknown

110 metre hurdles	–	Athanasios Skaltsogiannis	Unknown	Did not advance
110 metre hurdles	–	Anastasios Andreou	Unknown	Did not advance

Marathon	1st	Spiridon Louis	No heats	2:58.50
	2nd	Charilaos Vasilakos		3:06:03
	4th	Ioannis Vrettos		Unknown
	5th	Eleftherios Papasymeon		Unknown
	6th	Dimitrios Deligiannis		Unknown
	7th	Evangelos Gerakeris		Unknown
	8th	Stamatios Masouris		Unknown
	–	Ioannis Lavrentis		Did not finish
		Georgios Grigoriou		Did not finish
		Ilias Kafetzis		Did not finish
		Dimitrios Christopoulos		Did not finish
		Spyridon Belokas		Disqualified

Event	Place	Athlete	Best mark

Long jump	4th	Alexandros Chalkokondylis	5.74 metres
Long jump	–	Athanasios Skaltsogiannis	Unknown

Triple jump	3rd	Ioannis Persakis	12.52 metres
Triple jump	–	Christos Zoumis	Unknown

Pole vault	3rd	Evangelos Damaskos	2.60 metres
	3rd	Ioannis Theodoropoulos	2.60 metres
	5th	Vasilios Xydas	2.40 metres

Shot put	2nd	Miltiadis Gouskos	11.03 metres
Shot put	3rd	Georgios Papasideris	10.36 metres

Discus throw	2nd	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos	28.95 metres
	3rd	Sotirios Versis	27.78 metres
	–	Georgios Papasideris	Unknown

Cycling

Greece had entries in all six cycling events, winning one and taking second place in three more.

Event	Place	Cyclist	Time/Distance

333 metres	2nd	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	26.0 seconds

2 kilometres	2nd	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	5:00.2

10 kilometres	5th	Aristidis Konstantinidis	Unknown
10 kilometres	–	Georgios Kolettis	Did not finish

100 kilometres	2nd	Georgios Kolettis	Unknown
100 kilometres	–	Aristidis Konstantinidis	Did not finish

12-hour race	–	Georgios Paraskevopoulos	Did not finish
		Nikos Loverdos	Did not finish
		A. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris	Did not finish
		Konstantinos Konstantinou	Did not finish

Road race	1st	Aristidis Konstantinidis	3:22:31
	–	Georgios Aspiotis	Unknown
		Miltiades Iatrou	Unknown
		Konstantinos Konstantinou	Unknown
		Georgios Paraskevopoulos	Unknown

Fencing

Group of French and Greek fencers at 1896 Summer Olympics

Greek fencers won the top two places in the sabre competition, third place in the amateur foil competition, and in a major upset, Pyrgos defeated Joanni Perronet in the sole match of the masters foil event.

Event	Place	Fencer	Record		Touches		Round-robin	Final
Event	Place	Fencer	Wins	Losses	For	Against	Round-robin	Final

Foil	3rd	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis	2	1	7	4	2nd Group A	Did not advance
	4th	Athanasios Vouros	2	1	8	4	2nd Group B	Did not advance
	5th	Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis	1	2	5	7	3rd Group B	Did not advance
	7th	Georgios Balakakis	0	3	3	9	4th Group B	Did not advance
	7th	Ioannis Poulos	0	3	4	9	4th Group A	Did not advance

Masters foil	1st	Leonidas Pyrgos	1	0	3	1	None held	Won 3-1

Sabre	1st	Ioannis Georgiadis	4	0	12	6	1st	None held
	2nd	Tilemachos Karakalos	3	1	11	5	2nd	None held
	5th	Georgios Iatridis	0	4	3	12	5th	None held

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
Austria	2	1	.667
Denmark	2	1	.667
France	2	6	.250

Total international	6	8	.429
Greece	7	7	.500

Total	13	15	.464

Gymnastics

The names of the members of the two teams that competed in the team events are, for the most part, unknown. The vault and the team horizontal bar were two of the four events (the other two in the athletics program) that had no Greek entrants. The Greeks took two of each color medal, with two medals in each of the rope climbing (gold and silver), rings (gold and bronze), and team parallel bars (silver and bronze) competitions.

Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Filippos Karvelas	Parallel bars	Unknown	Unknown
Ioannis Mitropoulos		Unknown	Unknown
Antonios Papagiannou		Unknown	Unknown
Ioannis Mitropoulos	Rings	Unknown
Petros Persakis	Rings	Unknown
Aristovoulos Petmezas	Pommel horse	Unknown	Unknown
Antonios Papagiannou	Horizontal bar	Unknown	Unknown
Leonidas Tsiklitiras	Horizontal bar	Unknown	Unknown

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	Rope climbing	14.0
Thomas Xenakis	Rope climbing	14.0

Team	Event	Rank
Panellinios G.S.	Team parallel bars
Ethnikos G.S. Athens	Team parallel bars

Shooting

Greek shooters dominated the two rifle events and the rapid fire pistol competition, but were largely unable to compete with the Paine brothers of the United States in the pistol events that the two brothers entered.

Shooter	Event	Hits	Score	Rank
Pantelis Karasevdas	Men's 200 metre military rifle	40	2350
Panagiotis Pavlidis		38	1978
Nikolaos Trikoupis		34	1713
Anastasios Metaxas		Unknown	1701	4
Georgios Orphanidis		Unknown	1698	5
Georgios Diamantis		Unknown	1456	7
Ioannis Theofilakis		Unknown	1261	9
Alexios Fetsios		Unknown	894	11
Spiridon Stais		Unknown	845	12
Aristovoulos Petmezas		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
G. Karagiannopoulos		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Georgios Orphanidis	Men's 300 metre free rifle, three positions	37	1583
Ioannis Frangoudis		31	1312
Anastasios Metaxas		Unknown	1102	4
Pantelis Karasevdas		Unknown	1039	5
Antelothanasis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Georgios Diamantis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Alexios Fetsios		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Karakatsanis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Hatzidakis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Nikolaos Levidis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Zinon Michailidis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Moustakopoulos		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Panagiotis Pavlidis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Alexandros Theofilakis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Ioannis Theofilakis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Nikolaos Trikoupis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Leonidas Langakis		Did not finish
Ioannis Vourakis		Did not finish
Nikolaos Morakis	Men's 25 metre military pistol	205	Unknown
Ioannis Frangoudis		Unknown	Unknown	4
Zinon Michailidis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Georgios Orphanidis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Pantazidis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Patsouris		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Panagiotis Pavlidis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Aristovoulos Petmezas		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Platis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Vavis		Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Pantelis Karasevdas		Did not finish
Sanidis		Did not finish
Ioannis Frangoudis	Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol	23	344
Georgios Orphanidis	Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol	20	248
Ioannis Frangoudis	Men's 30 metre free pistol	Unknown	Unknown
Leonidas Morakis		Unknown	Unknown	4
Georgios Orphanidis		Unknown	Unknown	5

Swimming

Some of the Greek swimmers' names were not recorded. Greece's only swimming gold medal came in an event in which only Greek swimmers were allowed to compete, as did a silver and a bronze. In the three open events, the Greeks took two silvers and two bronzes, all in the two longer races.

Athlete	Events	Final
Athlete	Events	Time	Rank
Georgios Anninos	100 m freestyle	Unknown	Unknown
Efstathios Chorafas		Unknown	Unknown
Alexandros Chrysafos		Unknown	Unknown
Antonios Pepanos	500 m freestyle	9:57.6
Efstathios Chorafas	500 m freestyle	Unknown
Ioannis Andreou	1200 m freestyle	21:03.4
Efstathios Chorafas		Unknown
N. Katravas		Unknown	Unknown
Ioannis Malokinis	Men's sailors 100 metre freestyle	2:20.4
Spyridon Chazapis		Unknown
Dimitrios Drivas		Unknown

Tennis

Greece earned a silver medal and a bronze medal in the singles tournament. Kasdaglis and Petrokokkinos competed as a mixed team, winning another silver which is not counted in the Greek total.

Athlete	Event	First round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Dionysios Kasdaglis	Men's singles	Defert (FRA) W	Akratopoulos (GRE) W	Tapavica (HUN) W	Boland (GBR) L 3-6, 1-6
Konstantinos Paspatis		Robertson (GBR) W	Akratopoulos (GRE) W	Boland (GBR) L	Did not advance
Aristidis Akratopoulos		Flack (AUS) W	Paspatis (GRE) L	Did not advance		5
Evangelos Rallis		Petrokokkinos (GRE) W	Boland (GRE) L	Did not advance		5
Konstantinos Akratopoulos		Bye	Kasdaglis (GRE) L	Did not advance		5
Demetrios Petrokokkinos		Rallis (GRE) L	Did not advance			8
Dimitris Frangopoulos		Tapavica (HUN) L	Did not advance			8
Dionysios Kasdaglis Demetrios Petrokokkinos	Men's doubles	n/a	Paspatis/ Rallis (GRE) W	Flack (AUS)/ Robertson (GBR) W	Boland (GBR)/ Traun (GER) L 7-5, 4-6, 1-6
Aristidis Akratopoulos Konstantinos Akratopoulos		n/a	Boland (GBR)/ Traun (GER) L	Did not advance
Konstantinos Paspatis Evangelos Rallis		n/a	Kasdaglis/ Petrokokkinos (GRE) L	Did not advance

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
Australia	1	0	1.000
France	1	0	1.000
Hungary	1	1	.500
Great Britain	1	3	.250
Mixed team	1	3	.250

Total international	5	7	.417
Greece	4	3	.571

Total	9	10	.474

Weightlifting

In the one handed event, weightlifters had to lift with each hand successively. Nikolopoulos was able to list 57 kilograms with one hand, but only 40 kilograms with the other. He was judged to have come in third place in the event between the silver medallist Viggo Jensen who had lifted 57 with each hand and 4th-place finisher Versis who had lifted 40 with each, but had not been able to lift 57 with either.

Lifting form was used to break ties in the two handed competition.

Athlete	Event	Weight	Rank
Alexandros Nikolopoulos	One hand lift	57.0
Sotirios Versis	One hand lift	40.0	4
Sotirios Versis	Two hand lift	90.0
Georgios Papasideris	Two hand lift	90.0	4

Wrestling

Christopoulos won a battle of endurance against Momcsilló Tapavicza in the quarterfinals of the wrestling tournament. He then had to face Tsitas, who had received a bye in that round. Tsitas won, giving Christopoulos the bronze medal and a shoulder injury. Tsitas then faced Carl Schuhmann in the final. Schuhmann, having had a bye in the semifinals, took two days to defeat Tsitas, the match having to be postponed on account of darkness at the end of 40 minutes in the first day.

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Georgios Tsitas	Greco-Roman	Bye	Christopoulos (GRE) W	Schuhmann (GER) L
Stephanos Christopoulos	Greco-Roman	Tapavica (HUN) W	Tsitas (GRE) L	Did not advance

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
Germany	0	1	.000
Hungary	1	0	1.000

Total international	1	1	.500
Greece	1	1	.500

Total	2	2	.500

Notes

↑ The names of 103 competitors are known. Up to 7 unknown swimmers, 22 unknown shooters, and 44 unknown gymnasts competed for a total of 176. Most historians reduce the number of swimmers to 6 unknowns, saying that two of the entries were by the same swimmer, as well as noting that the 104 known competitors include three gymnasts who probably were among the 44 unnamed competitors in the team event. These two changes reduce the total competitors to 172. A comparison of Mallon's tables of multiple-event athletes indicates that he believes 3 of the unknown gymnasts also competed in other sports, reducing the number further to 169, which is the number he uses for Greece, Smyrna and Cyprus.

References

Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at )
Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. (Excerpt available at )
Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.

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[Contestants-1] The names of 103 competitors are known. Up to 7 unknown swimmers, 22 unknown shooters, and 44 unknown gymnasts competed for a total of 176. Most historians reduce the number of swimmers to 6 unknowns, saying that two of the entries were by the same swimmer, as well as noting that the 104 known competitors include three gymnasts who probably were among the 44 unnamed competitors in the team event. These two changes reduce the total competitors to 172. A comparison of Mallon's tables of multiple-event athletes indicates that he believes 3 of the unknown gymnasts also competed in other sports, reducing the number further to 169, which is the number he uses for Greece, Smyrna and Cyprus.