![]() Their most successful sports include athletics (29), weightlifting (15), shooting (13), gymnastics (11) and wrestling (11). Greece won its first medal at the 1896 Olympics and has won a total of 116 medals in 13 sports. Greece sends a large delegation with about 100 athletes competing at each Olympics since 1996 where they compete in a variety of sports. ![]() Ancient Greece was the origin of the Ancient Olympics and thus Greece has a special role during the modern Olympics, including certain ceremonial duties such as lighting the Olympic torch to begin the torch relay, marching first during the parade of nations and having its flag flown during the closing ceremony. The nation hosted the Olympics a second time in Athens in 2004. 20 July 2012.Greece made its first Summer Olympic appearance when it hosted the inaugural games in Athens in 1896 and has competed ever since. ^ "Competition Results (Day 4 & final of World Olympic Taekwondo Qualification Tournament on Jin Baku, Azerbaij".Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2011. ^ "Direct Qualifiers for 2012 London Olympic Games – Provisional list" (PDF).^ FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE NATATION – Swimming (PDF), FINA, archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011, retrieved 8 June 2011.Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. ^ IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – London 2012 ENTRY STANDARDS (PDF), IAAF, archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2011, retrieved 4 June 2011.Greek swimmers achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)): Men Athlete Main article: Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics M = Medal race EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race Shooting Greece qualified 1 boat for each of the following events Main article: Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics Konstantinos Poulios finished eightieth in men's marathon. Several athletes missed out of the medal standings in the finals, including swimmer Spyridon Gianniotis (fourth in the open water marathon), the Men's coxle four team (finished in the fourth place), Vassiliki Vougiouka (missed out the semi-finals in fencing), sailor Byron Kokkalanis, (sixth in men's windsurfing) and gymnast Vasileios Tsolakidis (sixth in men's parallel bars). Only two bronze medals were awarded to the team: one in judo, by Ilias Iliadis, an Olympic gold medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and the other in rowing, by Alexandra Tsiavou (sixth in Beijing), and Christina Giazitzidou. Greece failed to win a gold or a silver medal for the first time since 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Men's water polo was the only team event in which Greece was represented at these Olympic Games.Īs the progenitor nation of the Olympic games and in keeping with tradition, Greece entered first during the opening ceremony, led by taekwondo jin Alexandros Nikolaidis, two-time Olympic silver medalist in men's super heavyweight division. The Hellenic Olympic Committee sent a total of 103 athletes to the Games in London, 65 men and 38 women, to compete in 19 sports. Greece competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012.
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