Although Greece has had successful athletes at the Olympic Games, winning medals as early as the first ever Olympic Games, a Greek gymnast would not win a World Championships medal until Ioannis Melissanidis won silver on floor exercise at the 1994 World Championships. As of only male artistic gymnastics have won World Championship medals for Greece.
Medalists MedalNameYearEvent Ioannis Melissanidis 1994 Brisbane Men's floor exercise Dimosthenis Tampakos 1999 Tianjin Men's rings Vlasios Maras 2001 Ghent Men's horizontal bar Vlasios Maras 2002 Debrecen Men's horizontal bar Dimosthenis Tampakos 2003 Anaheim Men's rings Vlasios Maras 2006 Aarhus Men's horizontal bar Eleftherios Kosmidis 2010 Rotterdam Men's floor exercise Vasileios Tsolakidis 2011 Tokyo Men's parallel bars Eleftherios Petrounias 2015 Glasgow Men's rings Eleftherios Petrounias 2017 Montreal Men's rings Eleftherios Petrounias 2018 Doha Men's rings Eleftherios Petrounias 2023 Antwerp Men's rings
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