Greece at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Greece at the
1896 Summer Olympics
Greece at the; 1896 Summer Olympics
IOC code	GRE
NOC	Hellenic Olympic Committee
Website	www.hoc.gr (in Greek and English)
in Athens, Greece; April 6, 1896 – April 15, 1896
Competitors	169 in 9 sports and 39 events
Medals; Ranked 2nd	Gold 10 Silver 18 Bronze 19 Total 47
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1896; 1900; 1904; 1908; 1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;
Other related appearances
	1906 Intercalated Games

Greece was the host nation of the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens. The number of Greek contestants is commonly cited as 169, but as many as 176 Greeks[1] contested events in all nine sports. The Greeks were by far the most successful nation in terms of total medals with 47, 27 more than the United States of America. Nevertheless, their number of first-place finishes (10) was one fewer than the Americans' 11. The Greeks had 172 entries in 39 events. Only 4 events had no Greek entrants—the 400 metres and the high jump in athletics and the vault and the team horizontal bar in gymnastics.

Medalists

The following competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Spyridon Louis	Athletics	Men's marathon	April 10
Gold	Aristidis Konstantinidis	Cycling	Men's road race	April 12
Gold	Leonidas Pyrgos	Fencing	Men's masters foil	April 7
Gold	Ioannis Georgiadis	Fencing	Men's sabre	April 9
Gold	Ioannis Mitropoulos	Gymnastics	Men's rings	April 9
Gold	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	Gymnastics	Men's rope climbing	April 10
Gold	Pantelis Karasevdas	Shooting	Men's 200 m military rifle	April 9
Gold	Georgios Orphanidis	Shooting	Men's 300 m free rifle, three positions	April 12
Gold	Ioannis Frangoudis	Shooting	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	April 11
Gold	Ioannis Malokinis	Swimming	Men's sailors 100 m freestyle	April 11
Silver	Charilaos Vasilakos	Athletics	Men's marathon	April 10
Silver	Miltiadis Gouskos	Athletics	Men's shot put	April 7
Silver	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos	Athletics	Men's discus throw	April 6
Silver	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Cycling	Men's sprint	April 11
Silver	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Cycling	Men's time trial	April 11
Silver	Georgios Kolettis	Cycling	Men's 100 km	April 8
Silver	Tilemachos Karakalos	Fencing	Men's sabre	April 9
Silver	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Spyridon Athanasopoulos Petros Persakis Thomas Xenakis	Gymnastics	Men's team parallel bars	April 9
Silver	Thomas Xenakis	Gymnastics	Men's rope climbing	April 10
Silver	Pavlos Pavlidis	Shooting	Men's 200 m military rifle	April 9
Silver	Ioannis Frangoudis	Shooting	Men's 300 m free rifle, three positions	April 12
Silver	Georgios Orphanidis	Shooting	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	April 11
Silver	Antonios Pepanos	Swimming	Men's 500 m freestyle	April 11
Silver	Ioannis Andreou	Swimming	Men's 1200 m freestyle	April 11
Silver	Spyridon Chazapis	Swimming	Men's sailors 100 m freestyle	April 11
Silver	Dionysios Kasdaglis	Tennis	Men's singles	April 11
Silver	Dionysios Kasdaglis Demetrios Petrokokkinos	Tennis	Men's doubles	April 11
Silver	Georgios Tsitas	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman	April 11
Bronze	Dimitrios Golemis	Athletics	Men's 800 m	April 9
Bronze	Evangelos Damaskos	Athletics	Men's pole vault	April 10
Bronze	Ioannis Theodoropoulos	Athletics	Men's pole vault	April 10
Bronze	Ioannis Persakis	Athletics	Men's triple jump	April 6
Bronze	Georgios Papasideris	Athletics	Men's shot put	April 7
Bronze	Sotirios Versis	Athletics	Men's discus throw	April 6
Bronze	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis	Fencing	Men's foil	April 7
Bronze	Athanasios Vouros	Fencing	Men's foil	April 7
Bronze	Ioannis Chrysafis Filippos Karvelas Dimitrios Loundras Ioannis Mitropoulos	Gymnastics	Men's team parallel bars	April 9
Bronze	Petros Persakis	Gymnastics	Men's rings	April 9
Bronze	Nikolaos Trikoupis	Shooting	Men's 200 m military rifle	April 9
Bronze	Nikolaos Morakis	Shooting	Men's 25 m military pistol	April 10
Bronze	Ioannis Frangoudis	Shooting	Men's 30 m free pistol	April 11
Bronze	Efstathios Chorafas	Swimming	Men's 500 m freestyle	April 11
Bronze	Dimitrios Drivas	Swimming	Men's sailors 100 m freestyle	April 11
Bronze	Konstantinos Paspatis	Tennis	Men's singles	April 10
Bronze	Alexandros Nikolopoulos	Weightlifting	Men's one hand lift	April 7
Bronze	Sotirios Versis	Weightlifting	Men's two hand lift	April 7
Bronze	Stephanos Christopoulos	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman	April 11

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Shooting	3	3	3	9
Gymnastics	2	2	2	6
Fencing	2	1	2	6
Athletics	1	3	6	10
Swimming	1	3	2	6
Cycling	1	3	0	4
Tennis	0	2	1	3
Wrestling	0	1	1	2
Weightlifting	0	0	2	2
Total	10	18	19	47

Multiple medalists

The following competitors won multiple medals at the 1896 Olympic Games.

Name	Medal	Sport	Event
Ioannis Frangoudis	Gold Silver Bronze	Shooting	Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol Men's 300 metre free rifle Men's 30 metre pistol
Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	Gold Silver	Gymnastics	Men's rope climbing Men's team parallel bars
Georgios Orphanidis	Gold Silver	Shooting	Men's 300 metre free rifle Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol
Ioannis Mitropoulos	Gold Bronze	Gymnastics	Men's rings Men's team parallel bars
Dimitrios Kasdaglis	Silver Silver	Tennis	Men's singles Men's doubles
Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Silver Silver	Cycling	Men's sprint Men's track time trial
Thomas Xenakis	Silver Silver	Gymnastics	Men's team parallel bars Men's rope climbing
Petros Persakis	Silver Bronze	Gymnastics	Men's team parallel bars Men's rings
Sotirios Versis	Bronze Bronze	Athletics Weightlifting	Men's discus throw Men's two hand lift

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Sport	Men	Total
Athletics	29	29
Cycling	8	8
Fencing	9	9
Gymnastics	56	56
Shooting	48	48
Swimming	16	16
Tennis	7	7
Weightlifting	3	3
Wrestling	2	2
Total	178	178

Medals by day
Day	Date				Total
1	6 April	0	1	2	3
2	7 April	1	1	5	7
3	8 April	0	1	0	1
4	9 April	3	3	4	10
5	10 April	2	2	5	9
6	11 April	3	9	3	15
7	12 April	2	1	0	3
8	13 April	0	0	0	0
Total		10	18	19	47

Athletics

The Greeks entered every event on the athletics program save the 400 metres and the high jump. They took 1 gold, 3 silver, and 6 bronze medals in the sport. It was initially thought that the Greek team had swept the top three places of the marathon event, until it was discovered that Spiridon Belokas had covered part of the distance by cart and was disqualified.

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Alexandros Chalkokondylis	100 m	12.8	2 Q	12.6	5
Georgios Gennimatas		Unknown	4-5	Did not advance
Konstantinos Mouratis		DNS		Did not advence
Konstantinos Mouratis	400 m	DNS		Did not advence
Angelos Fetsis	800 m	Unknown	4	Did not advance
Dimitrios Golemis		2:16.8	2 Q	2:28.0
Dimitrios Tombrof		Unknown	5	Did not advance
Angelos Fetsis	1500 m	—		Unknown	5
Dimitrios Golemis		—		Unknown	6
Konstantinos Karakatsanis		—		Unknown	7-8
Dimitrios Tombrof		—		Unknown	7-8
Anastasios Andreou	110 m hurdles	Unknown	4	Did not advance
Konstantinos Mouratis		DNS		Did not advence
Athanasios Skaltsogiannis		Unknown	3-4	Did not advance
Spyridon Belokas	Marathon	—		DSQ
Dimitrios Deligiannis		—		DNF
Evangelos Gerakeris		—		Unknown	7
Georgios Grigoriou		—		DNF
Ilias Kafetzis		—		DNF
Sokratis Lagoudakis		—		Unknown	9
Ioannis Lavrentis		—		DNF
Spyridon Louis		—		2:58:50 OR
Stamatios Masouris		—		Unknown	8
Eleftherios Papasymeon		—		Unknown	5
Charilaos Vasilakos		—		3:06:03
Ioannis Vrettos		—		Unknown	4

Field events

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position
Evangelos Damaskos	Men's pole vault	2.60
Ioannis Theodoropoulos		2.60
Vasilios Xydas		2.40	5
Alexandros Chalkokondylis	Men's long jump	5.74	4
Athanasios Skaltsogiannis		Unknown	5-9
Konstantinos Mouratis		DNS
Ioannis Persakis	Men's triple jump	12.52
Christos Zoumis	Men's triple jump	Unknown	6-7
Miltiadis Gouskos	Men's shot put	11.20
Georgios Papasideris	Men's shot put	10.36
Georgios Papasideris	Men's discus throw	Unknown	5-9
Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos		28.95
Sotirios Versis		27.28

Cycling

Greece had entries in all six cycling events, winning one and taking second place in three more.

Track

Athlete	Event	Time / Distance
Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Men's time trial	25.4
Stamatios Nikolopoulos	Men's sprint	5:00.2
Georgios Koletis	10 km	DNF
Aristidis Konstantinidis	10 km	Unknown
Georgios Aspiotis	100 km	DNS
Georgios Koletis		Unknown
Aristidis Konstantinidis		DNF
Nikos Loverdos	12 hour race	DNF
Konstantinos Konstantinou		DNF
Georgios Paraskevopoulos		DNF
A. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris		DNF

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Georgios Aspiotis	Men's road race	Unknown	4-7
Miltiades Iatrou		Unknown	4-7
Aristidis Konstantinidis		3:22:31
Konstantinos Konstantinou		Unknown	4-7
Georgios Paraskevopoulos		Unknown	4-7

Fencing

Group of French and Greek fencers at 1896 Summer Olympics

Greek fencers won the top two places in the sabre competition, third place in the amateur foil competition, and in a major upset, Pyrgos defeated Joanni Perronet in the sole match of the masters foil event.

Athlete	Event	Round 1			Final
Athlete	Event	MW	ML	Rank	Opposition Score	Rank
Georgios Valakakis	Men's foil	0	3	4	Did not advance	7
Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos		1	2	3	Did not advance	6
Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis		2	1	2	Did not advance
Ioannis Poulos		0	3	4	Did not advance	8
Athanasios Vouros		2	1	2	Did not advance
Leonidas Pyrgos	Men's masters foil	—			Perronet (FRA) W 3–1
Ioannis Georgiadis	Men's sabre	4	0	1	—
Georgios Iatridis		0	4	5	—	5
Tilemachos Karakalos		3	1	2	—

Gymnastics

The names of the members of the two teams that competed in the team events are, for the most part, unknown. The vault and the team horizontal bar were two of the four events (the other two in the athletics program) that had no Greek entrants. The Greeks took two of each color medal, with two medals in each of the rope climbing (gold and silver), rings (gold and bronze), and team parallel bars (silver and bronze) competitions.

Team

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Spyridon Athanasopoulos Petros Persakis Thomas Xenakis 29 others, names unknown	Men's team parallel bars	Unknown
Ioannis Chrysafis Ioannis Mitropoulos Dimitrios Loundras Filippos Karvelas 15 others, names unknown	Men's team parallel bars	Unknown

Individual

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Aristovoulos Petmezas	Men's pommel horse	Unknown	3-15
Ioannis Mitropoulos	Men's rings	Unknown
Petros Persakis	Men's rings	Unknown
Antonios Papaioannou	Men's horizontal bar	Unknown	3-15
Leonidas Tsiklitiras	Men's horizontal bar	Unknown	3-15
Filippos Karvelas	Men's parallel bars	Unknown	3-18
Ioannis Mitropoulos		Unknown	3-18
Antonios Papaioannou		Unknown	3-18
Nikolaos Andriakopoulos	Men's rope climbing	14.0
Thomas Xenakis	Men's rope climbing	14.0

Shooting

Greek shooters dominated the two rifle events and the rapid fire pistol competition, but were largely unable to compete with the Paine brothers of the United States in the pistol events that the two brothers entered.

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Georgios Diamantis	Men's 200 m military rifle	1456	7
Alexios Fetsios		894	11
G. Karagiannopoulos		Unknown	14-41
Pantelis Karasevdas		2350
Anastasios Metaxas		1701	4
Georgios Orphanidis		1698	5
Panagiotis Pavlidis		1978
Aristovoulos Petmezas		Unknown	14-41
Spiridon Stais		845	12
Ioannis Theofilakis		1261	9
Nikolaos Trikoupis		1713
22 others, names unknown		Unknown	14-41
Antelothanasis	Men's 300 m free rifle	Unknown	6-18
Georgios Diamantis		Unknown	6-18
Alexios Fetsios		Unknown	6-18
Ioannis Frangoudis		1312
Hatzidakis		Unknown	6-18
Karakatsanis		Unknown	6-18
Pantelis Karasevdas		1039	5
Leon Langakis		DNF
Nikolaos Levidis		Unknown	6-18
Anastasios Metaxas		1102	4
Xenon Mikhailidis		Unknown	6-18
Moustakopoulos		Unknown	6-18
Georgios Orphanidis		1583
Panagiotis Pavlidis		Unknown	6-18
Alexandros Theofilakis		Unknown	6-18
Ioannis Theofilakis		Unknown	6-18
Nikolaos Trikoupis		Unknown	6-18
Ioannis Vourakis		DNF
Pantelis Karasevdas	Men's 25 m military pistol	DNF
Xenon Mikhailidis		Unknown	6-13
Nikolaos Morakis		205
Georgios Orphanidis		Unknown	6-13
Pantazidis		Unknown	6-13
Patsouris		Unknown	6-13
Panagiotis Pavlidis		Unknown	6-13
Aristovoulos Petmezas		Unknown	6-13
Ioannis Frangoudis		Unknown	4
Platis		Unknown	6-13
Sanidis		DNF
Vavis		Unknown	6-13
Ioannis Frangoudis	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	344
Georgios Orphanidis	Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol	249
Ioannis Frangoudis	Men's 30 m pistol	Unknown
Nikolaos Morakis		Unknown	4
Georgios Orphanidis		Unknown	5

Swimming

Some of the Greek swimmers' names were not recorded. Greece's only swimming gold medal came in an event in which only Greek swimmers were allowed to compete, as did a silver and a bronze. In the three open events, the Greeks took two silvers and one bronze, all in the two longer races.

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Georgios Anninos	100 m freestyle	Unknown	3-10
Efstathios Chorafas		Unknown	3-10
Alexandros Chrysafos		Unknown	3-10
Ag. Diamantopoulos		DNS
I. Dontis		DNS
Dimitris Frangopoulos		DNS
Georgios Gaitanos		DNS
G. K. Karagiannis		DNS
Nikolaos Katravas		DNS
V. Khatzis		DNS
Theod. Kontos		DNS
P. F. Koukoudakis		DNS
Georgios Lamprakis		DNS
Sav. Laskaridis		DNS
Merk. Lerias		DNS
V. Mangourakis		DNS
I. Markou		DNS
G. Marnezos		DNS
Panagiotis Nastos		DNS
Georgios Petrou		DNS
Fill. Pothitos		DNS
Emm. Valetsiotis		DNS
Ir. Vlachos		DNS
Sol. Xenopoulos		DNS
Four others, names unknown		Unknown	3-10
Efstathios Chorafas	500 m freestyle	Unknown
Dimitrios Christopoulos		DNS
Ag. Diamantopoulos		DNS
I. Dontis		DNS
Dimitris Frangopoulos		DNS
Georgios Gaitanos		DNS
I. Georgiadis		DNS
A. Grigoriadis		DNS
Nikolaos Katravas		DNS
V. Khatzis		DNS
Theod. Kontos		DNS
Nik. Kourakos		DNS
K. Kourkoulas		DNS
Sav. Laskaridis		DNS
Merk. Lerias		DNS
V. Mangourakis		DNS
I. Markou		DNS
G. Marnezos		DNS
G. Mazoukas		DNS
P. Mikhalopoulos		DNS
Panagiotis Nastos		DNS
Antonios Pepanos		9:57.6
Fill. Pothitos		DNS
K. Salouros		DNS
D. Santanis		DNS
N. Stournaras		DNS
Sol. Xenopoulos		DNS
A. Zanos		DNS
Ioannis Andreou	1200 m freestyle	21:03.4
G. Athanasiou		DNS
Efstathios Chorafas		DNS
Ag. Diamantopoulos		DNS
I. Dontis		DNS
Dimitris Frangopoulos		DNS
Nikolaos Katravas		Unknown	3-8
V. Khatzis		DNS
Theod. Kontos		DNS
Nik. Kourakos		DNS
P. F. Koukoudakis		DNS
Sav. Laskaridis		DNS
Merk. Lerias		DNS
Panagiotis Nastos		DNS
Antonios Pepanos		DNS
A. Romantzas		DNS
Emm. Valetsiotis		DNS
Sol. Xenopoulos		DNS
Three others, names unknown		Unknown	3-8
Spyridon Chazapis	Sailors 100 m freestyle	Unknown
Dimitrios Drivas		Unknown
Nik. Kourakos		DNS
K. Kourkoulas		DNS
Ioannis Malokinis		2:20.4
P. Mikhalopoulos		DNS
K. Salouros		DNS
D. Santanis		DNS
N. Stournaras		DNS

Tennis

Greece earned a silver medal and a bronze medal in the singles tournament. Kasdaglis and Petrokokkinos won a silver medal in doubles tournament.

Athlete	Event	First round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Aristidis Akratopoulos	Singles	Flack (AUS) W	Paspatis (GRE) L	Did not advance
Konstantinos Akratopoulos		Bye	Kasdaglis (GRE) L	Did not advance
Dimitris Frangopoulos		Tapavica (HUN) L	Did not advance
Dimitrios Kasdaglis		J. Defert (FRA) W	Akratopoulos (GRE) W	Tapavica (HUN) W	Boland (GBR) L 3–6, 1-6
Konstantinos Paspatis		Robertson (GBR) W	Akratopoulos (GRE) W	Boland (GBR) L	Did not advance
Demetrios Petrokokkinos		Rallis (GRE) L	Did not advance
Evangelos Rallis		Petrokokkinos (GRE) W	Boland (GBR) L	Did not advance
Dimitrios Kasdaglis / Demetrios Petrokokkinos (GRE)	Doubles	—	Paspatis / Rallis (GRE) W	Flack (AUS) / Robertson (GBR) W	Boland (GBR) / Traun (GER) L 7–5, 4–6, 1-6
Aristidis Akratopoulos / Konstantinos Akratopoulos (GRE)		—	Boland (GBR) / Traun (GER) L	Did not advance
Konstantinos Paspatis / Evangelos Rallis (GRE)		—	Kasdaglis / Petrokokkinos (GRE) L	Did not advance

Weightlifting

In the one handed event, weightlifters had to lift with each hand successively. Nikolopoulos was able to list 57 kilograms with one hand, but only 40 kilograms with the other. He was judged to have come in third place in the event between the silver medallist Viggo Jensen who had lifted 57 with each hand and 4th-place finisher Versis who had lifted 40 with each, but had not been able to lift 57 with either.

Lifting form was used to break ties in the two handed competition.

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Alexandros Nikolopoulos	Men's one hand lift	57.0
Sotirios Versis	Men's one hand lift	40.0	4
Georgios Papasideris	Men's two hand lift	90.0	=4
Sotirios Versis	Men's two hand lift	90.0

Wrestling

Christopoulos won a battle of endurance against Momcsilló Tapavicza in the quarterfinals of the wrestling tournament. He then had to face Tsitas, who had received a bye in that round. Tsitas won after Christopoulos retired due to a shoulder injury; Christopoulous received the bronze medal. Tsitas then faced Carl Schuhmann in the final. Schuhmann, having had a bye in the semifinals, took 55 minutes over two days to defeat Tsitas, the match having to be postponed on account of darkness after 40 minutes on the first day.

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Stephanos Christopoulos	Men's Greco-Roman	Tapavica (HUN) W	Tsitas (GRE) L	Did not advance
Georgios Tsitas	Men's Greco-Roman	Bye	Christopoulos (GRE) W	Schuhmann (GER) L

Notes

The names of 103 competitors are known. Up to 7 unknown swimmers, 22 unknown shooters, and 44 unknown gymnasts competed for a total of 176. Most historians reduce the number of swimmers to 6 unknowns, saying that two of the entries were by the same swimmer, as well as noting that the 104 known competitors include three gymnasts who probably were among the 44 unnamed competitors in the team event. These two changes reduce the total competitors to 172. A comparison of Mallon's tables of multiple-event athletes indicates that he believes 3 of the unknown gymnasts also competed in other sports, reducing the number further to 169, which is the number he uses for Greece, Smyrna and Cyprus.

References

Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; Anninos, C. (1897). The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896. Athens: Charles Beck. (Digitally available at )
Mallon, Bill; Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. (Excerpt available at )
Smith, Michael Llewellyn (2004). Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games. London: Profile Books. ISBN 1-86197-342-X.

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[Contestants-1] The names of 103 competitors are known. Up to 7 unknown swimmers, 22 unknown shooters, and 44 unknown gymnasts competed for a total of 176. Most historians reduce the number of swimmers to 6 unknowns, saying that two of the entries were by the same swimmer, as well as noting that the 104 known competitors include three gymnasts who probably were among the 44 unnamed competitors in the team event. These two changes reduce the total competitors to 172. A comparison of Mallon's tables of multiple-event athletes indicates that he believes 3 of the unknown gymnasts also competed in other sports, reducing the number further to 169, which is the number he uses for Greece, Smyrna and Cyprus.