Greece competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. The first places the team qualified were for three athletes in sailing events.
Funding and support Funding for Greece's national Paralympic committee comes through the Greek Ministry of Sports and the General Secretariat of Sports. While Greek Paralympians get some support from their national sport federations, many were also getting support from the Greek NPC. The economic situation in the country led to less funding from the government, which caused the Greeks rely more on sponsorship to serve a stop gap measure. One of the biggest sponsors was OPAP, Greece's national lottery. In a few cases, Greek athletes had to self-fund if they wanted to participate internationally as their NPC did not have the funds. In 2013, there was also a tremendous discrepancy in funding between Paralympic sport and Olympic sport, with the Olympic side getting €1,400,000 while the Paralympic side got €200,000.
Disability classifications
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.
Medalists
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Medal Name Sport Event Date Athletics Men's Shot Put F32 Athletics Men's Javelin Throw F53/54 Powerlifting Men's −107 kg Athletics Men's Shot Put F53 Swimming Men's 100 m butterfly S9 Athletics Men's Shot Put F20 Wheelchair Fencing Men's Sabre B Athletics Men's Club Throw F31/32 Boccia Mixed Individual BC3 Athletics Men's Shot Put F32 Powerlifting Men's −54 kg Athletics Women's Shot Put F53 Boccia Mixed Pairs BC3
Multiple medalistsNameSport Total Athanasios Konstantinidis Athletics 1 1 0 2 Grigorios Polychronidis Boccia 0 1 1 2
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Medals by sportSportTotalAthletics3227Powerlifting1012Swimming1001Boccia0112Wheelchair Fencing0101Total54413
Medals by dayDayDate Total 1 8 September 1 0 1 2 2 9 September 1 0 1 2 3 10 September 0 1 0 1 5 12 September 0 1 2 3 6 13 September 0 1 0 1 7 14 September 2 0 0 2 8 15 September 1 0 0 1 9 16 September 0 1 0 1Total544 13
Medals by genderGender TotalMale54211Female0011Mixed0011Total 5 4 4 13
Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games: SportMenWomenTotalArchery 0 1 1Athletics 13 5 18Boccia 3 2 5Canoe Sprint 0 2 2Cycling 1 2 3Judo 1 0 1Powerlifting 6 0 6Sailing 3 0 3Shooting 1 0 1Swimming 12 4 16Wheelchair Fencing 3 1 4Wheelchair Tennis 1 0 1 Total 44 16 60
Archery
Dorothea Poimenidou earned Greece a spot at the Rio Games following her performance at the 2015 World Archery Para Championships. She qualified the country after her performance in the women's recurve open.
Women
AthleteEventRanking roundRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / ScoreSeedOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankDorothea PoimenidouIndividual Recurve Open6057L 4-6Did not advance
Athletics
Men
Track AthleteEventClassificationHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankChristos Koutoulias100mT45/46/4711.5210Did not advanceMichail SeitisT43/4411.30 PB10Did not advance200mT43/4422.45 PB7 q23.637400mT43/4449.81 WR6 q49.66 WR6Christos KoutouliasIoannis SevdikalisKonstantin VeltsiMichail Seitis4 × 100 m relayT42-47colspan=2 47.795
Field
AthleteEventClassificationFinalDistancePositionDimitrios ZisidisShot putF329.24 PBNikolaos GoniosF327.0010Athanasios KonstantinidisF3210.39 WRChe Jon FernandesF538.44Dimitrios SenikidisF2016.17Efstratios NikolaidisF2015.694Athanasios KonstantinidisClub ThrowF31/3233.69Dimitrios ZisidisF31/3222.246Nikolaos GoniosF31/3227.265Christos KapellasLong JumpT43/446.407Christos KoutouliasT45/46/476.4313Evangelos KanavosT206.489Konstantin VeltsiT43/445.5912Michail SeitisT43/446.209Manolis StefanoudakisJavelin ThrowF53/5429.45 PR
Women
Track AthleteEventClassificationHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankStyliani Smaragdi100mT45/46/4713.7011Did not advance
Field
AthleteEventClassificationFinalDistancePositionAnthi LiagkouShot putF334.695Dimitra KorokidaF534.28Valasia KyrgiovanakiF2012.114Zoi MantoudiF2011.319Styliani SmaragdiLong JumpT45/46/474.8710
Boccia
Individual AthleteEventPool MatchesQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / OppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankGrigorios PolychronidisMixed Ιndividual BC3W 9-1W 7-21 QW 2-2 Tiebrake WinW 4-1L 1-8Anna NtentaW 1-6L 6-12Did not advancePanagiotis SoulanisMixed Ιndividual BC1W 6-1W 6-4L 0-92 QL 0-13Did not advanceChrysi Morfi MetzouMixed Ιndividual BC4L 2-13L 1-10L 1-64Did not advance
Pairs and Teams AthleteEventPool matchesQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / OppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankAnna NtentaNikolaos PananosGrigorios PolychronidisMixed Pairs BC3L 2–3 W 4–1 W 5–22 QL 1–6W 8–1
Cycling
Road
Men AthleteEventTimeRankAthanasios BarakasMen's Road Race BMen's Road Time Trial B45:38.4621
Women AthleteEventTimeRankAdamantia ChalkiadakiWomen's Road Race B2:02.526Women's Road Time Trial B43:03.7912Paraskevi KantzaWomen's Road Race B2:43.0016Women's Road Time Trial B50:36.7917
Track
Men AthleteEventQualificationFinalTimeRankTime/OppositionResultRankAthanasios BarakasMen's B 4000m Individual Pursuit5:03.97916Did not advanceMen's B 1000m Time Trialcolspan="2" 1:07.47910
Women AthleteEventQualificationFinalTimeRankTime/OppositionResultRankAdamantia ChalkiadakiWomen's B 3000m Individual Pursuit3:46.62010Did not advance Women's B 1000m Time Trialcolspan="2" 1:13.43110Paraskevi KantzaWomen's B 3000m Individual Pursuit4:14.30814Did not advanceWomen's B 1000m Time Trialcolspan="2" 1:23.74814
Judo
Men AthleteEventRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechage 1Repechage 2Final / OppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankTheoklitos Papachristos−100 kgL 000–100Did not advance
Paracanoeing
Canoe Sprint Women AthleteEventHeatsSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTime RankEleni PrelorentzouKL11:53.36710 SF1:44.0925Did not advance
Powerlifting
Men AthleteEventTotal liftedRankNikolaos Gkountanis−65 kg1815Pavlos Mamalos−107 kg238Dimitrios Bakochristos−54 kg162Paschalis Kouloumoglou−59kg1455Kostantinos Dimou+107kg 2204Gkremislav Moysiadis−80kg1658
Sailing
Mixed AthleteEventRaceTotal pointsRank1234567891011Theodoros AlexasVasileios ChristoforouArgyris Notaroglou3-Person Keelboat (Sonar)3631076410199587
Shooting
Mixed AthleteEventQualificationFinalScoreRankScoreRankEvangelos KakosaiosMixed R4 – 10 m Air Rifle Standing SH2622.823Did not advance
Swimming
Men AthleteEventHeatsFinalTimeRankTimeRankAntonios Tsapatakis50 m Freestyle S537.5711Did not advance50 m Butterfly S544.5513Did not advance100 m Breaststroke SB4colspan=2 1:37.694Aristeidis Makrodimitris200 m Freestyle S25:03.566 Q4:57.90650 m Backstroke S21:02.297 Q1:03.467100 m Backstroke S22:19.2572:22.458Charalampos Taiganidis50 m Freestyle S1224.976 Q24.996100 m Backstroke S121:03.706 Q1:01.214Christos Tampaxis50 m Backstroke S1colspan=2 1:22.304100 m Backstroke S1colspan=2 2:54.234Dimitrios Karypidis50 m Backstroke S1colspan=2 1:32.095100 m Backstroke S1colspan=2 3:12.736Dimosthenis Michalentzakis50 m Freestyle S927.5013Did not advance100 m Butterfly S91:01.913 Q59.27 PR 200 m Medley SM92:26.1510Did not advanceGeorgios Kapellakis50 m Backstroke S21:14.4711Did not advance100 m Backstroke S22:45.859Did not advance Georgios Sfaltos50 m Freestyle S632.6511Did not advance 100 m Freestyle S61:12.1511Did not advance 100 m Breaststroke SB51:40.176 Q1:40.05 NR6Gerasimos Lignos50 m Freestyle S1327.0918Did not advance100 m Breaststroke SB131:14.257 Q1:13.686100 m Backstroke S131:09.6510Did not advanceIoannis Kostakis50 m Freestyle S355.458 Q53.957200 m Freestyle S3colspan=2 4:01.46750 m Breaststroke SB2Did not advance50 m Backstroke S31:17.3510Did not advance150 m Medley SM3Did not advanceKonstantinos Karaouzas50 m Breaststroke SB354.379Did not advancePanagiotis Christakis50 m Freestyle S631.949Did not advance100 m Freestyle S61:14.0513Did not advance50 m Butterfly S635.4611Did not advance100 m Breaststroke SB61:37.9811Did not advance200 m Medley SM62:59.649Did not advance
Women AthleteEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankAlexandra Stamatopoulou100 m Freestyle S31:44.295 Q1:47.16650 m Backstroke S358.475 Q58.335Chrysoula Antoniadou200 m Freestyle S53:48.6211Did not advance100 m Breaststroke SB42:06.928 Q2:06.247Maria Kalpakidou50 m Backstroke S2colspan=2 1:24.455100 m Backstroke S2colspan=2 3:00.725Semicha Rizaoglou50 m Freestyle S41:11.6016Did not advance100 m Freestyle S32:30.7811Did not advance50 m Backstroke S31:06.187 Q1:12.058
Mixed AthleteEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankGeorgios SfaltosPanagiotis ChristakisAlexandra StamatopoulouChrysoula Antoniadou4 × 50 m Freestyle Relay 20Pts2:43.435 Q2:39.355
Wheelchair fencing
Men AthleteEventPool matchesQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / OppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankGerasimos Pylarinos MarkantonatosSabre AL 1–5
L 0–5
L 2–5
L 4–5
W 5–25Did not advanceVasileios NtounisW 5–4
W 5–3
W 5–4
W 5–2
W 5–21 QW 15–12L 12–15L 5–154Panagiotis TriantafyllouSabre BW 5–3
W 5-1
W 5-4
W 5-11 QW 15–6W 15–14L 7–15Gerasimos Pylarinos MarkantonatosPanagiotis TriantafyllouVasileios NtounisTeam ÉpéeL 22-45
W 45-322 QL 33-45L 29-454
Women AthleteEventPool matchesQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / OppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankKalliopi LoufakiÉpée BL 1-2
W 5-3
L 0-5
L 2-5
L 2-55Did not advance
Wheelchair tennis
Stefanos Diamantis qualified for Rio in the men's singles event via a Bipartite Commission Invitation place.
Men
AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / OppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankStefanos DiamantisMen's singlesL 2-0 (0–6, 3–6)Did not advance
See also Greece at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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