Greece competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Great Britain, and Switzerland. As the progenitor nation of the Olympic Games and in keeping with tradition, Greece entered first at the Maracanã Stadium during the opening ceremony.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee confirmed a roster of 93 athletes, 56 men and 37 women, to compete across 15 sports at the Games, the smallest in Summer Olympic history since 1992. Aquatic sports constituted the largest number of athletes on the Greek team, with a combined total of 29 entries (14 in swimming, 2 in synchronized swimming, and 13 in men's water polo). There was a single competitor each in archery, road cycling, track cycling, mountain biking, table tennis, weightlifting, and wrestling.
The Greek roster featured 36 returning Olympians, with archer Evangelia Psarra (the oldest member of the team, aged 42) and long-distance swimmer and double world open water champion Spyridon Gianniotis headed to their fifth consecutive Games as the most experienced competitors. Five Greek athletes vied for their fourth Olympic appearance, including table tennis player Panagiotis Gionis, gymnast Vlasios Maras, and judo legend Ilias Iliadis (all of whom started as members of the host nation team in Athens 2004). Sailor and two-time medalist Sofia Bekatorou, who raced alongside her partner Michail Pateniotis in the Nacra 17 class, created Summer Olympic history as the nation's first ever female flag bearer in the opening ceremony.
Greece returned home from Rio de Janeiro with six medals (three gold, one silver, and two bronze), a vast improvement on the nation's overall medal tally from the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Anna Korakaki accomplished a historic feat as the first Greek athlete to earn multiple medals at a single Olympics since 1912, with a gold and a bronze in women's pistol shooting. The gold medal was the first one for Greece after a 12-year drought. Two other golds were awarded to gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias in the men's rings, and pole vaulter Ekaterini Stefanidi, the first for Greece in the track and field after 12 years. Gianniotis enjoyed the final race of his swimming career with a runner-up finish in the open water marathon, while Panagiotis Mantis and Pavlos Kagialis handed the Greeks their eighth Olympic medal in sailing, obtaining the bronze in the men's 470 class.
Medalists
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Medal Name Sport Event Date Shooting Women's 25 m pistol Gymnastics Men's rings Athletics Women's pole vault Swimming Men's 10 km open water Shooting Women's 10 m air pistol Sailing Men's 470
Multiple medalistsNameSport Total Anna Korakaki Shooting 1 0 1 2
| width=22% align=left valign=top | Medals by sportSport TotalShooting1012Gymnastics1001Athletics1001Swimming0101Sailing0011Total3126
Medals by genderGender TotalMale1113Female2013Total3126
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Medals by date Day Date Total Day 1 6 August000 0 Day 2 7 August001 1 Day 3 8 August000 0 Day 4 9 August100 1 Day 5 10 August000 0 Day 6 11 August000 0 Day 7 12 August000 0 Day 8 13 August000 0 Day 9 14 August000 0 Day 10 15 August100 1 Day 11 16 August010 1 Day 12 17 August000 0 Day 13 18 August001 1 Day 14 19 August100 1 Day 15 20 August000 0 000 0Total312 6
Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games and selected biographies. SportMenWomenTotalArchery 0 1 1Athletics 10 15 25Cycling 3 0 3Fencing 0 2 2Gymnastics 2 7 9Judo 2 0 2Rowing 8 2 10Sailing 5 2 7Shooting 1 1 2Swimming 10 4 14Synchronized swimming 0 2 2Table tennis 1 0 1Water polo 13 0 13Weightlifting 1 0 1Wrestling 0 1 1 Total 56 37 93
Archery
Greece has received a spare Olympic berth freed up by Ivory Coast to send a female archer to the Olympics, as the Ivorian National Olympic Committee decided to withdraw its entry after the deadline. The berth was officially awarded to four-time Olympian Evangelia Psarra.
AthleteEventRanking roundRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / ScoreSeedOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankEvangelia PsarraWomen's individual59655L 3–7Did not advance
Athletics
Greek athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):
Track & road events Men AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankLykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas200 m20.313 q20.637Did not advanceKonstantinos Douvalidis110 m hurdles13.411 Q13.475Did not advanceMichail KalomirisMarathoncolspan=4 2:37:03132Christoforos Merousiscolspan=4 2:29:39116Alexandros Papamichail20 km walkcolspan=4 1:21:552050 km walkcolspan=4 3:59:2128
Women AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankMaria Belimpasaki200 m23.194Did not advanceIrini Vasiliou400 m54.377Did not advanceAlexi Pappas10000 mcolspan=4 31:36.16 NR17Elisavet Pesiridou100 m hurdles13.107Did not advanceOurania RebouliMarathoncolspan=4 2:46:3288Sofia Rigacolspan=4 2:49:07103Panagiota Vlachakicolspan=4 2:59:12118Antigoni Drisbioti20 km walkcolspan=4 1:32:3215Panagiota Tsinopouloucolspan=4 1:38:2447
Field events Men AthleteEventQualificationFinalDistancePositionDistancePositionMiltiadis TentoglouLong jump7.6427Did not advanceKonstadinos BaniotisHigh jump2.2234Did not advanceKonstantinos FilippidisPole vault5.702 q5.507Nicholas ScarvelisShot put19.3727Did not advanceMichail AnastasakisHammer throw71.2820Did not advance
Women AthleteEventQualificationFinalDistancePositionDistancePositionHaido AlexouliLong jump6.1332Did not advanceParaskevi PapachristouTriple jump14.432 Q14.268Nikoleta KyriakopoulouPole vaultDid not advanceEkaterini Stefanidi4.601 Q4.85Chrysoula AnagnostopoulouDiscus throw54.8426Did not advance
Combined events – Women's heptathlon AthleteEvent 200 m 800 mFinalRankSofia YfantidouResult13.991.6512.9726.325.5154.572:30.08561327Points980795725769703949692
Cycling
Road Greece has qualified one rider in the men's Olympic road race by virtue of his top 200 individual ranking in the 2015 UCI Europe Tour.
AthleteEventTimeRankIoannis TamouridisMen's road race6:30:0551
Track Following the completion of the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Greece has entered one rider to compete in the men's keirin at the Olympics, by virtue of his final individual UCI Olympic ranking in that event.
Keirin AthleteEvent1st RoundRepechage2nd RoundFinalRankRankRankRankChristos VolikakisMen's keirin4 R1 Q5 FB12
Mountain biking Greece has qualified one mountain biker for the men's Olympic cross-country race, as a result of his nation's twenty-first-place finish in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of May 25, 2016.
AthleteEventTimeRankDimitrios AntoniadisMen's cross-country1:44:1731
Fencing
Greece has entered one fencer into the Olympic competition. 2012 Olympian Vassiliki Vougiouka claimed a spot in the women's sabre as one of the two highest-ranked fencers coming from the Europe zone in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings. Meanwhile, Aikaterini Kontochristopoulou rounded out the Greek roster by finishing among the top four individual fencers in the women's foil at the European Zonal Qualifier in Prague, Czech Republic.
AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalSemifinalFinal / OppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankAikaterini-Maria KontochristopoulouWomen's foilL 13–15Did not advanceVassiliki VougioukaWomen's sabreW 15–8L 11–15Did not advance
Gymnastics
Artistic Greece has entered two artistic gymnasts into the Olympic competition. Eleftherios Petrounias won the gold medal in the men's rings to book his Olympic spot at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, and was later joined by three-time Olympian Vlasios Maras and Vasiliki Millousi, who both claimed the men's and women's individual all-around spot, respectively at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.
Men AthleteEventQualificationFinalApparatusTotalRankApparatusTotalRankEleftherios PetrouniasRingscolspan=2 15.833colspan=3 15.8332 Qcolspan=2 16.000colspan=3 16.000Vlasios MarasHorizontal barcolspan=5 14.20014.20038Did not advance
Women AthleteEventQualificationFinalApparatusTotalRankApparatusTotalRankVasiliki MillousiBalance beamcolspan=2 13.20013.20057Did not advance
Rhythmic Greece has qualified one rhythmic gymnast for the individual all-around by finishing in the top 15 at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. A team of five rhythmic gymnasts were added to the Greek roster by claiming one of the three available Olympic spots in the group all-around at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.
AthleteEventQualificationFinalHoopBallClubsRibbonTotalRankHoopBallClubsRibbonTotalRankVarvara FiliouIndividual17.20817.33317.33316.75068.62415Did not advance
AthleteEventQualificationFinal5 ribbons3 clubs2 hoopsTotalRank5 ribbons3 clubs2 hoopsTotalRankIoanna AnagnostopoulouEleni DoikaZoi KontogianniMichaela MetallidouStavroula SamaraTeam15.00015.41630.41613Did not advance
Judo
Greece has qualified two judokas for each of the following weight classes at the Games. Roman Moustopoulos and double Olympic medalist Ilias Iliadis were ranked among the top 22 eligible judokas for men in the IJF World Ranking List of May 30, 2016.
AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechageFinal / OppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankRoman MoustopoulosMen's −81 kgL 000–100Did not advanceIlias IliadisMen's −90 kgL 000–100Did not advance
Rowing
Greece has qualified two boats for each of the following rowing classes into the Olympic regatta. Rowers competing in the men's four and women's single sculls confirmed Olympic places for their boats at the 2015 FISA World Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France.
On July 26, 2016, the men's lightweight four berth was awarded to the Greek rowing team, as a response to the removal of four boats held by the Russians from FISA due to their previous doping bans and their implications in the "disappearing positive methodology" set out in the McClaren Report on Russia's state-sponsored doping.
Men AthleteEventHeatsRepechageSemifinalsFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankDionisis AngelopoulosIoannis ChristouIoannis TsilisGeorgios TziallasFour5:59.652 SA/Bcolspan=2 6:24.045 FB6:00.568Spyridon GiannarosPanagiotis MagdanisStefanos NtouskosIoannis PetrouLightweight four6:05.273 SA/Bcolspan=2 6:23.953 FA6:36.476
Women AthleteEventHeatsRepechageSemifinalsFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankSofia AsoumanakiAikaterini NikolaidouDouble sculls7:20.643 SA/Bcolspan=2 6:51.991 FA7:48.624 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
Greek sailors have qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, the individual fleet Worlds, and European qualifying regattas. The majority of the sailing crews, led by London 2012 fourth-place finalist Byron Kokkalanis (RS:X) and Beijing 2008 bronze medalist Sofia Bekatorou, along with her new partner Michail Pateniotis (Nacra 17), were named to the Greek team, following the completion of the Princess Sofia Trophy regatta. Meanwhile, London 2012 Olympian Ioannis Mitakis rounded out the Greek selection at the 2016 Finn Gold Cup.
Men AthleteEventRaceNet pointsFinal rank123456789101112M*Byron KokkalanisRS:X2261355581212111018965Ioannis MitakisFinn1224321312219133colspan=2 EL8811Pavlos KagialisPanagiotis Mantis47093151395222colspan=2 2058
Women