Greece at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Greece competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. 121 competitors, 87 men and 34 women, took part in 94 events in 18 sports.[1]

Greece at the
1996 Summer Olympics
IOC codeGRE
NOCHellenic Olympic Committee
Websitewww.hoc.gr (in Greek and English)
in Atlanta
Competitors121 (87 men, 34 women) in 18 sports
Flag bearers Pyrros Dimas (opening)
Nikolaos Kaklamanakis (closing)
Medals
Ranked 16th
Gold
4
Silver
4
Bronze
0
Total
8
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Medalists

Greece finished in 16th position in the final medal rankings, with four gold medals and four silver medals.

Gold

Silver

Athletics

Men's Long Jump

  • Qualification 7.98m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification 7.82m (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualification 74.46m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification NM (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

  • Qualification 1.93m
  • Final 2.03m (→ Silver Silver Medal)

Women's Long Jump

  • Qualification 6.60m
  • Final 6.97m (→ 4th place)
  • Qualification 6.58m
  • Final 6.37m (→ 11th place)

Women's Discus Throw

  • Qualification 56.66m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification 59.60m (→ did not advance)
  • Qualification 58.70m (→ did not advance)

Women's Triple Jump

  • Qualification 14.48m
  • Final 14.44m (→ 6th place)

Women's Marathon

Basketball

Men's tournament

Preliminary round
Pos Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Qualification
1 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia 5 5 0 478 364 +114 10 Quarterfinals
2  Australia 5 4 1 492 438 +54 9
3  Greece 5 3 2 402 416 14 8
4  Brazil 5 2 3 498 494 +4 7
5  Puerto Rico 5 1 4 447 465 18 6 9th place playoff
6  South Korea 5 0 5 422 562 140 5 11th place playoff
Source: FIBA archive
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal average; 4) head-to-head number of points scored.
20 July 1996 (1996-07-20)
Greece  6371  FR Yugoslavia
Scoring by half: 30–30, 33–41
Pts: Fasoulas 21
Rebs: Fasoulas 10
Asts: Sigalas 4
Pts: Savić 21
Rebs: Divac 8
Asts: Đorđević 6
Atlanta
Referees: Donald Cline (CAN), Carl Jungebrand (FIN)
22 July 1996 (1996-07-22)
Brazil  8789  Greece
Scoring by half: 54–54, 33–35
Pts: Schmidt 32
Rebs: dos Santos 10
Asts: Minuci 6
Pts: Oikonomou 36
Rebs: Fasoulas 6
Asts: Bakatsias 5
Atlanta
Referees: Joseph Derosa (USA), Miguel Betancor Leon (ESP)
24 July 1996 (1996-07-24)
Greece  8069  Puerto Rico
Scoring by half: 51–33, 29–36
Pts: Oikonomou 19
Rebs: Oikonomou 8
Asts: Oikonomou, Christodoulou 3
Pts: Mincy 20
Rebs: Mincy 8
Asts: Ortíz 4
Atlanta
Referees: Gennaro Colucci ITA, Raul Chaves Sagel (ARG)
26 July 1996 (1996-07-26)
South Korea  86108  Greece
Scoring by half: 44–56, 42–52
Pts: J. Y. Hyun 24
Rebs: J. Y. Hyun 6
Asts: D. H. Kang 10
Pts: Sigalas 22
Rebs: Rentzias 8
Asts: Bakatsias, Sigalas 6
Atlanta
Referees: Romualdas Brazauskas (LTU), Yi Cui (CHN)
28 July 1996 (1996-07-28)
Australia  10362  Greece
Scoring by half: 52–30, 51–32
Pts: Gaze 17
Rebs: Bradtke 8
Asts: Heal 5
Pts: Oikonomou 22
Rebs: Papanikolaou 6
Asts: Giannakis 4
Atlanta
Referees: Pascal Noel Dorizon (FRA), Jose Lapaix Guance (DOM)
Quarterfinals
30 July 1996 (1996-07-30)
10:00
Lithuania  9966  Greece
Scoring by half: 45–19, 54–47
Pts: Marčiulionis 16
Rebs: Sabonis 11
Asts: Marčiulionis 7
Pts: Sigalas 18
Rebs: Rentzias 4
Asts: Sigalas 5
Atlanta
Referees: Miguel Betancor Leon (ESP), Raul Chaves Sagel (ARG)
5–8th Place classification match
1 August 1996 (1996-08-01)
10:00
China  75115  Greece
Scoring by half: 24–50, 51–65
Pts: Wu 20
Rebs: Liu 8
Asts: Li 7
Pts: Fasoulas 19
Rebs: Christodoulou 12
Asts: Christodoulou 8
Atlanta
Referees: Joseph Derosa (USA), Tomislav Jovancic (YUG)
5th Place match
2 August 1996 (1996-08-02)
22:00
Greece  9172  Brazil
Scoring by half: 45–49, 46–23
Pts: Sigalas 35
Rebs: Fasoulas, Christodoulou 7
Asts: Patavoukas 7
Pts: Minuci 23
Rebs: Vianna 11
Asts: Ratto 7
Atlanta
Referees: Roman Ryzhyk (UKR), Juan Figueroa (PUR)

Boxing

Men's Bantamweight ( 54 kg)

Men's Featherweight ( 57 kg)

Cycling

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

  • Preliminary Heat 316.50 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Fencing

One female fencer represented Greece in 1996.

Women's épée

Gymnastics

Judo

Charalampos Papaioannou[2] 7th place, heavy weight

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Men
Athlete Event Race Net points Final rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Nikolaos Kaklamanakis Mistral 5 1 2 6 1 9 1 1 DNF 17
Aimilios Papathanasiou Finn 26 21 DNF 27 PMS 16 21 23 29 DNF 195 27
Andreas Kosmatopoulos
Konstantinos Trigkonis
470 11 19 18 13 5 2 15 18 5 10 24 97 11
Women
Athlete Event Race Net points Final rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Angeliki Skarlatou Mistral 23 21 24 22 22 24 21 21 19 149 23
Maria Mylona Europe 13 22 20 22 24 13 11 11 19 21 24 152 22
Aikaterini Kaloudi
Emilia Tsoulfa
470 9 20 6 19 18 6 16 17 17 18 13 120 17
Open
Athlete Event Race Net points Final rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Dimitrios Theodorakis Laser 21 28 16 18 33 26 28 20 25 25 24 203 27
Anastasios Bountouris
Dimitrios Boukis
Star 6 8 14 3 6 6 1 16 4 11 45 4
Stavros Alevras
Panagiotis Alevras
Stefanos Chandakas
Soling 14 12 18 PMS 3 16 21 11 20 13 107 18

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

Men's 100m Freestyle

Men's 200m Freestyle

Men's 400m Freestyle

  • Dimitris Manganas
    1. Heat 3:54.85
    2. B-Final 3:57.39 (→ did not advance, 16th place)

Men's 100m Backstroke

Men's 100m Butterfly

Men's 200m Butterfly


Women's 100m Freestyle

Women's 200m Freestyle

Women's 400m Freestyle

Women's 100m Backstroke

Women's 200m Backstroke

Women's 100m Butterfly

Women's 200m Butterfly

Women's 200m Individual Medley

Women's 400m Individual Medley

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Table tennis

Tennis

Women's Singles Competition

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Quarter Finals
  • Classification Matches
  • Team Roster

Weightlifting

Men's Light-Heavyweight ( 83 kg)

  • Final 180.0 + 212.5 = 392.5 (→ Gold Medal)

Wrestling

References

  1. "Greece at the 1996 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2012-02-12.
  2. Charalampos Papaioannou
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