Greece at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. 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. Men's water polo was the only team event in which Greece was represented at these Olympic Games.

Greece at the 2012 Summer Olympics
IOC code	GRE
NOC	Hellenic Olympic Committee
Website	www.hoc.gr (in Greek and English)
in London
Competitors	103 in 19 sports
Flag bearers	Alexandros Nikolaidis (opening) Spyridon Gianniotis (closing)
Medals Ranked 75th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 2 Total 2
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

As 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.

Greece failed to win a gold or a silver medal for the first time since 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. 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.

Several athletes missed out of the medal standings in the finals, including swimmer Spyridon Gianniotis (fourth in the open water marathon), the Men's coxless 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).

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Bronze Ilias Iliadis Judo Men's 90 kg 1 August  Bronze Christina Giazitzidou Alexandra Tsiavou Rowing Women's lightweight double sculls 4 August

Medals by sport Sport Total Judo 0 0 1 1 Rowing 0 0 1 1 Total 0 0 2 2

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games and selected biographies.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	0	1	1
Athletics	11	12	23
Canoeing	1	0	1
Cycling	4	0	4
Diving	1	0	1
Fencing	0	1	1
Gymnastics	2	7	9
Judo	1	1	2
Rowing	8	2	10
Sailing	9	2	11
Shooting	2	1	3
Swimming	8	6	14
Synchronized swimming	0	2	2
Table tennis	2	0	2
Taekwondo	1	0	1
Volleyball	0	2	2
Water polo	13	0	13
Weightlifting	1	0	1
Wrestling	1	1	2
Total	65	38	103

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece qualified one archer.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Evangelia Psarra	Women's individual	636	43	Devi (IND) (22) L 4–6	did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greek athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):^[1][2]

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• NR = National record
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Konstantinos Poulios finished eightieth in men's marathon.

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Konstadinos Douvalidis	110 m hurdles	13.40	2 Q	13.77	7	Did not advance
Periklis Iakovakis	400 m hurdles	50.27	5	Did not advance
Alexandros Papamichail	20 km walk	—				1:21:12 NR	15
	50 km walk	—				3:49:56 NR	25
Konstantinos Poulios	Marathon	—				2:33:17	80
Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	200 m	20.56	4 q	20.52=PB	5	Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Konstadinos Baniotis	High jump	2.21	25	Did not advance
Konstadinos Filippidis	Pole vault	5.60	3 q	5.65	6
Spyridon Lebesis	Javelin throw	82.40	5 Q	81.91	7
Alexandros Papadimitriou	Hammer throw	67.19	37	Did not advance
Michalis Stamatogiannis	Shot put	19.24	25	Did not advance
Louis Tsatoumas	Long jump	7.53	29	Did not advance

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
María Belibasáki	100 m	Bye		11.63	6	Did not advance
	200 m	23.36	4	—		Did not advance
Eléni Filándra	800 m	2:02.29	3 Q	—		2:04.42	8	Did not advance
Konstadina Kefala	Marathon	—						3:01.18	104
Déspina Zapounídou	20 km walk	—						1.35.19	44

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou	Pole vault	4.25	19	Did not advance
Stélla-Iró Ledáki		4.50 =PB	13	Did not advance
Savva Lika	Javelin throw	57.06	27	Did not advance
Niki Paneta	Triple jump	13.66	24	Did not advance
Athanasia Perra		11.93	33	Did not advance
Katerina Stefanidi	Pole vault	4.25	24	Did not advance
Antonia Stergiou	High jump	1.93 SB	13	Did not advance

Combined events – Heptathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	HJ	SP	200 m	LJ	JT	800 m	Final	Rank
Sofia Ifantidou	Result	13.82	1.68	12.96	25.91	5.81	56.96 OR	2:22.03	5947	24
	Points	1004	830	725	805	792	995	796

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Slalom

Greece has qualified boats for the following events

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinal		Final
		Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Best	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christos Tsakmakis	Men's C-1	165.79	17	105.22	13	105.22	15	Did not advance

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ioannis Tamouridis	Men's road race	5:58:24	110

Track

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Zafeiris Volikakis	Men's sprint	10.663 67.523	17	Baugé (FRA) DSQ	Did not advance

Keirin

Athlete	Event	1st Round	Repechage	2nd Round	Final
		Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
Christos Volikakis	Men's keirin	6 R	1 Q	6	9

Mountain biking

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Periklis Ilias	Men's cross-country	1:38:51	33

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Stefanos Paparounas	Men's 3 m springboard	366.10	26	Did not advance

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece qualified 1 fencer.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Vassiliki Vougiouka	Women's sabre	Bond-Williams (GBR) W 15–8	Socha (POL) W 15–7	Kim J-y (KOR) L 12–15	Did not advance

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Artistic

Greece qualified three athletes.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB			F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Vlasios Maras	Parallel bars	—				13.400	—	13.400	64	Did not advance
	Horizontal bar	—					14.300	14.300	35	Did not advance
Vasileios Tsolakidis	Parallel bars	—				15.466	—	15.466	7 Q	—				15.300	—	15.300	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		F	V	UB	BB			F	V	UB	BB
Vasiliki Millousi	All-around	12.933	12.800	13.425	14.366	53.524	34	Did not advance

Rhythmic

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		5 balls	3 ribbons 2 hoops	Total	Rank	5 balls	3 ribbons 2 hoops	Total	Rank
Eleni Doika Alexia Kyriazi Evdokia Loukagkou Stavroula Samara Vasileia Zachou Marianthi Zafeiriou	Team	25.875	26.000	51.875	9	Did not advance

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece qualified 2 judokas.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ilias Iliadis	Men's −90 kg	Randl (SVK) W 0111–0002	Bauža (LTU) W 0100–0003	Denisov (RUS) L 0000–0020	Did not advance	Anthony (AUS) W 1000–0000	Camilo (BRA) W 0011–0002
Ioulieta Boukouvala	Women's −57 kg	Lupetey (CUB) L 0001–0011	Did not advance

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece qualified the following boats.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Apostolos Gkountoulas Nikolaos Gkountoulas	Pair	6:21.46	3 SA/B	Bye		7:07.15	5 FB	6:53.69	9
Eleftherios Konsolas Panagiotis Magdanis	Lightweight double sculls	6:42.13	5 R	6:31.13	1 SA/B	6:40.89	4 FB	6:31.71	8
Ioannis Christou Stergios Papachristos Ioannis Tsilis Georgios Tziallas	Four	5:57.71	3 SA/B	Bye		6:02.61	2 FA	6:11.43	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christina Giazitzidou Alexandra Tsiavou	Lightweight double sculls	7:03.66	1 SA/B	Bye		7:09.01	2 FA	7:12.09

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece qualified 1 boat for each of the following events

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Byron Kokkalanis	RS:X	4	11	6	2	16	15	3	11	4	9	12	77	6
Evangelos Cheimonas	Laser	13	19	21	41	50 DSQ	33	15	30	15	19	EL	206	26
Ioannis Mitakis	Finn	4	21	10	8	25 OCS	10	20	19	7	9	EL	108	14
Panagiotis Kampouridis Efstathios Papadopoulos	470	14	7	20	15	18	28 DSQ	27	19	8	20	EL	148	19
Aimilios Papathanasiou Antonis Tsotras	Star	3	16	7	12	7	15	17 BFD	17 DSQ	17 OCS	12	EL	106	14

Women

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*
Angeliki Skarlatou	RS:X	14	12	21	11	19	16	19	27 OCS	15	7	EL	134	16
Anna Agrafioti	Laser Radial	28	29	30	32	34	34	15	34	23	32	EL	257	33

Open

Athlete	Event	Race																Net points	Final rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	M*
Dionisios Dimou Michail Pateniotis	49er	18	20	19	16	19	20	19	17	20	19	18	16	16	20	5	EL	242	20

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece qualified for three quota places in shooting;^[3]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Nikolaos Mavrommatis	Men's skeet	119	9	Did not advance
Efthimios Mitas		114	25	Did not advance
Athina Douka	Women's 10 m air pistol	369	42	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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)):^[4][5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefanos Dimitriadis	100 m butterfly	54.20	40	Did not advance
	200 m butterfly	1:58.79	23	Did not advance
Ioannis Drymonakos	200 m butterfly	1:56.97	16 Q	1:58.05	15	Did not advance
	400 m individual medley	4:17.04	17	—		Did not advance
Kristian Golomeev	100 m freestyle	50.08	31	Did not advance
Spyridon Gianniotis	10 km open water	—				1:50:05.3	4
Aristeidis Grigoriadis	100 m backstroke	54.52	17 Q	54.20	14	Did not advance
Ioannis Kalargaris	50 m freestyle	22.80	30	Did not advance
Panagiotis Samilidis	100 m breaststroke	1:01.20	22	Did not advance
	200 m breaststroke	2:14.82	27	Did not advance
Andreas Vazaios	200 m individual medley	2:01.23	26	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Theodora Drakou	50 m freestyle	25.13	13 Q	25.28	16	Did not advance
Marianna Lymperta	10 km open water	—				2:04:26.5	22
Nery Mantey Niangkouara	50 m freestyle	25.40	21	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	56.63	32	Did not advance
Kristel Vourna	100 m butterfly	58.74	16 Q	58.31 NR	12	Did not advance
Theodora Drakou Theodora Giareni Martha Matsa Nery Mantey Niangkouara Kristel Vourna	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:45.55	16	—		Did not advance

Synchronized swimming

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece qualified 2 quota places in synchronized swimming.

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine (preliminary)			Free routine (final)
		Points	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank
Evangelia Platanioti Despoina Solomou	Duet	89.200	8	88.840	178.040	8 Q	89.360	178.560	8

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece qualified two athletes for singles table tennis events. Based on their world rankings as of 16 May 2011 Kalinikos Kreanga and Panagiotis Gionis qualified for the men's event.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Panagiotis Gionis	Men's singles	Bye		Assar (EGY) W 4–0	Kishikawa (JPN) L 3–4	Did not advance
Kalinikos Kreanga		Bye		Saive (BEL) W 4–1	Maze (DEN) L 1–4	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Alexandros Nikolaidis had ensured a quota place for Greece in the men's +80 kg by reaching the top 3 of the 2011 WTF World Qualification Tournament.^[7]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Bronze medal	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Alexandros Nikolaidis	Men's +80 kg	Tanrıkulu (TUR) L 3–7	Did not advance

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Beach

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Maria Tsiartsiani Vassiliki Arvaniti	Women's	Pool B  Kuhn – Zumkehr (SUI) L 0 – 2 (13–21, 19–21)  Vasina – Vozakova (RUS) W 2 – 1 (18–21, 21–13, 15–12)  Xue – Zhang (CHN) L 0 – 2 (17–21, 16–21)	4	Did not advance				19

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece has qualified a men's team.

Men's tournament

Main article: Water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Greek roster in the men's water polo tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[8]

№	Name	Pos.	Height	Weight	Date of birth	2012 club
1	Nikolaos Deligiannis	GK	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	3 September 1976	Olympiacos
2	Emmanouil Mylonakis	D	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	9 April 1985	NO Vouliagmeni
3	Andreas Miralis	D	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	89 kg (196 lb)	21 September 1987	NO Patras
4	Konstantinos Kokkinakis	CB	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	107 kg (236 lb)	9 October 1975	Panathinaikos
5	Theodoros Chatzitheodorou	D	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	1 October 1976	NC Chios
6	Argyris Theodoropoulos	D	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	13 January 1981	NC Chios
7	Christos Afroudakis	D	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	23 May 1984	NO Vouliagmeni
8	Evangelos Delakas	CB	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	8 February 1985	Olympiacos
9	Georgios Afroudakis	CF	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	103 kg (227 lb)	17 October 1976	Panathinaikos
10	Ioannis Fountoulis	D	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	25 May 1988	Olympiacos
11	Konstantinos Mourikis	CF	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	115 kg (254 lb)	11 July 1988	Olympiacos
12	Manthos Voulgarakis	CF	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	104 kg (229 lb)	14 March 1980	NO Vouliagmeni
13	Filippos Karampetsos	GK	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	22 October 1974	NC Chios

Head coach: Dragan Andrić

Group play

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Croatia	5	5	0	0	50	29	+21	10	Quarterfinals
Italy	5	3	1	1	40	36	+4	7
Spain	5	3	0	2	52	42	+10	6
Australia	5	2	0	3	40	44	−4	4
Greece	5	1	1	3	41	43	−2	3
Kazakhstan	5	0	0	5	24	53	−29	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

29 July 2012 10:00	Report	Greece	6–8	Croatia	Water Polo Arena, London Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), György Juhász (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 1–2, 2–2, 1–3
		Fountoulis, Mourikis 2	Goals	three players 2

31 July 2012 15:30	Report	Greece	7–7	Italy	Water Polo Arena, London Referees: Marijo Brguljan (MNE), Mihajlo Ćirić (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 1–2, 2–3, 2–1
		Fountoulis, Afroudakis 2	Goals	Presciutti 2

2 August 2012 11:20	Report	Kazakhstan	4–11	Greece	Water Polo Arena, London Referees: Ulrich Spiegel (GER), Brian Littlejohn (GBR)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 0–4, 1–3, 2–2
		Ukumanov 2	Goals	Fountoulis 5

4 August 2012 14:10	Report	Greece	9–11	Spain	Water Polo Arena, London Referees: Marijo Brguljan (MNE), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 2–4, 2–1, 2–2
		Delakas 3	Goals	three players 3

6 August 2012 11:20	Report	Greece	8–13	Australia	Water Polo Arena, London Referees: Mihajlo Ćirić (SRB), Sergi Sanchez (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 3–5, 1–3, 2–2
		Chatzitheodorou 3	Goals	Howden 3

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
David Kavelasvili	Men's −94 kg	170	11	200	13	370	13

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece qualified in the following events.

Key:

• VT - Victory by Fall.
• PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
• PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Olegk Motsalin	−74 kg	Bye	Tigiev (UZB) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance					11

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Maria Prevolaraki	−55 kg	Bye	Ratkevich (AZE) L 0–3 PO	Did not advance					15