Greece competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 47 competitors, all men, took part in 34 events in 8 sports. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.
Medalists
MedalNameSportEventDate Georgios MoraitinisIason SappasAlexandros TheofilakisIoannis TheofilakisAlexandros VrasivanopoulosShooting Men's 30 m team military pistol
Aquatics
Water polo
Greece competed in the Olympic water polo tournament for the first time in 1920. The Bergvall System was in use at the time. Greece was shut out by the United States in the quarterfinals. It is unclear why the Greeks received a place in the third-place tournament, as the Americans had not won either gold or silver, but Greece beat Italy in the quarterfinals of the bronze medal tournament before losing again to the United States in the bronze semifinals.
Quarterfinals
Bronze medal quarterfinals
Bronze medal semifinals
Final rank 5th
Athletics
Nine athletes represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's sixth appearance in athletics, having competed in the sport at every Olympics. The Stockholm Games were only the second time that no Greek won a medal in athletics.
Ranks given are within the heat.
AthleteEventHeatsQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRank Dimitrios Andromidas 110 m hurdles N/A Unknown 5 did not advance High jump 1.65 16 N/A did not advance Pentathlon N/A did not finish Decathlon N/A did not finish Dimitrios Karambatis 100 m Unknown 4 did not advance 200 m 24.2 3 did not advance Alexandros Kranis 5000 m N/A Unknown 6 did not advance 10000 m N/A Unknown 7 did not advance Cross country N/A Unknown 38 Apostolos Nikolaidis Decathlon N/A did not finish Menelaos Ponireas Triple jump 12.60 18 N/A did not advance Panagiotis Retelas 5000 m N/A did not finish did not advance Konstantinos Roubesis Pentathlon N/A did not finish Iraklis Sakellaropoulos Marathon N/A 3:14:25.0 32 Panagiotis Trivoulidas Marathon N/A did not finish Cross country N/A Unknown 39
Fencing
Three fencers represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport.
Ranks given are within the group.
FencerEventFirst roundQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRank S. Antonidas Épée 4–5 5 Q 3–8 11 did not advance Evangelos Skotidas Épée 4–3 2 Q 5–6 7 did not advance Sabre N/A 3–4 5 did not advance Vasilios Zarkadis Épée 1–7 8 did not advance Sabre N/A 4–4 5 did not advance
Football
Greece competed in the Olympic football tournament for the first time. The country was defeated in the first round by Sweden.
Team Roster Ioannis Andrianopoulos Theodoros Dimitriou Antonios Fotiadis Agamemnon Gilis Dimitrios Gotis Georgios Kalafatis Nikolaos Kaloudis Georgios Khatziandreou Apostolos Nikolaidis Theodoros Nikolaidis Khristos Peppas Reserve:Dimitris Demertzis Reserve:Ioannis Stavropoulos Reserve:Vassilis Samios Reserve:Sotiris Despotopoulos Reserve:Georgio Andrianopoulos
First round
Final rank 10th
Shooting
Nine shooters represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's fourth appearance in the sport. Greece took a silver medal in the team military pistol, its first medal in shooting since 1896.
ShooterEventFinalResultRank Konstantinos Kefalas 50 m small-bore rifle Unknown Georgios Moraitinis 300 m free rifle, 3 pos. Unknown Emmanouil Peristerakis 50 m small-bore rifle Unknown Iason Sappas 50 m free pistol 464 8 300 m free rifle, 3 pos. Unknown Alexandros Theofilakis 300 m free rifle, 3 pos. Unknown Ioannis Theofilakis 50 m free pistol 462 10 50 m small-bore rifle Unknown 300 m free rifle, 3 pos. Unknown 600 m military rifle, prone 59 4 Andreas Vikhos 50 m small-bore rifle Unknown Alexandros Vrasivanopoulos 300 m free rifle, 3 pos. Unknown Vasileios Xylinakis 50 m small-bore rifle Unknown Konstantinos Kefalas Emmanouil Peristerakis Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Andreas Vikhos 300 m team military rifle, prone 270 11 600 m team military rifle, prone 270 7 Konstantinos Kefalas Emmanouil Peristerakis Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Vasileios Xylinakis 300 & 600 m team military rifle, prone 553 7 Konstantinos Kefalas Emmanouil Peristerakis Ioannis Theofilakis Andreas Vikhos Vasileios Xylinakis 50 m team small-bore rifle 1727 10 300 m team military rifle, standing 209 13 Georgios Moraitinis Iason Sappas Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Alexandros Vrasivanopoulos 30 m team military pistol 1285 50 m team free pistol 2240 4 Team free rifle 3910 13
Tennis
A single tennis player, in the men's singles, competed for Greece in 1920. It was the nation's second appearance in the sport, and first since 1896. Zerlentis lost his first match, though that single match took 66 games over 4 sets to complete.
PlayerEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalsRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScore Athanasios Zerlentis Men's singles Bye L 14–12, 8–10, 7–5, 6–4 did not advance 17
Opponent nation Wins Losses Percent 0 1 .000 Total 0 1 .000
Round Wins Losses Percent Round of 64 0 0 – Round of 32 0 1 .000 Round of 16 0 0 – Quarterfinals 0 0 – Semifinals 0 0 – Final 0 0 – Bronze match 0 0 – Total 0 1 .000
Weightlifting
A single weightlifter represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport, in which Greece was the only country to have competed at both prior appearances in 1896 and 1900.
WeightlifterEventFinalResultRank Evangelos Menexis 67.5 kg 205.0 10
Wrestling
Five wrestlers competed for Greece in 1920. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport. Notaris was the only one to win a match. Both Dialetis and Vergos competed in both freestyle and Greco-Roman.
Freestyle
WrestlerEventRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinals / Bronze matchRank Ioannis Dialetis Featherweight N/A (L) did not advance 9 Dimitrios Vergos Middleweight Bye (L) did not advance 9
Opponent nation Wins Losses Percent 0 1 .000 0 1 .000 Total 0 2 .000
Round Wins Losses Percent Round of 32 0 0 – Round of 16 0 2 .000 Quarterfinals 0 0 – Semifinals 0 0 – Final 0 0 – Bronze match 0 0 – Total 0 2 .000
Greco-Roman
WrestlerEventRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalsRank Silver quarters Silver semis Silver match Bronze quarters Bronze semis Bronze match Ioannis Dialetis Featherweight (L) did not advance did not advance 17 N/A did not advance did not advance Sotirios Notaris Middleweight (W) (L) did not advance 13 did not advance did not advance Vasilios Pavlidis Lightweight (L) did not advance did not advance 18 did not advance did not advance Dimitrios Vergos Heavyweight Bye (L) did not advance 12 did not advance did not advance Vasilios Vouyoukos Lightweight Bye (L) did not advance 12 did not advance did not advance
Opponent nation Wins Losses Percent 0 1 .000 1 0 1.000 0 1 .000 0 1 .000 0 2 .000 Total 1 5 .167
Round Wins Losses Percent Round of 32 1 2 .333 Round of 16 0 3 .000 Quarterfinals 0 0 – Semifinals 0 0 – Final 0 0 – Silver quarterfinals 0 0 – Silver semifinals 0 0 – Silver match 0 0 – Bronze quarterfinals 0 0 – Bronze semifinals 0 0 – Bronze match 0 0 – Total 1 5 .167
Notes
References
External links
International Olympic Committee results database