Greece at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Greece competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. Of the four nations that have been to every Summer Games (the others being Australia, Great Britain, and Switzerland), Greece was the only one to compete under its national flag at Moscow, as the other three and several other nations competed under the Olympic flag (New Zealand flew the flag of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association) in protest of the USSR's involvement in the Afghan Civil War.[1][2]

Greece at the
1980 Summer Olympics
IOC codeGRE
NOCHellenic Olympic Committee
Websitewww.hoc.gr (in Greek and English)
in Moscow
Competitors43 (40 men/3 women)
Flag bearer Ilias Khatzipavlis
Medals
Ranked 22nd
Gold
1
Silver
0
Bronze
2
Total
3
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Medalists

Gold
  • Stelios Mygiakis – Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight

Bronze
  • Georgios Khatziioannidis – Wrestling, Men's freestyle Featherweight
  • Tasos Boudouris, Tasos Gavrilis and Aristidis Rapanakis – Sailing, Men's Soling Team Competition

Results by event

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

  • Lambros Kefalas
  • Heat – 10.70
  • Quarterfinals – 10.62 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 metres

  • Nikolaos Angelopoulos
  • Heat – 21.98 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

  • Michael Koussis
  • Final – 2:18:02 (→ 20th place)

Men's 20 km Walk

  • Aristidis Karageorgos
  • Final – 1:36:53.4 (→ 15th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

  • Aristidis Karageorgos
  • Final – 4:24:36 (→ 12th place)

Men's Long Jump

  • Dimitrios Delifotis
  • Qualification – 7.74 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Long Jump

  • Maroula Lambrou
  • Qualifying Round – 6.37 m (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

  • Qualification – no mark (→ did not advance)

Men's Team Competition
  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to Netherlands (7–8)
  • Lost to Romania (4–6)
  • Lost to Hungary (5–8)
  • Final Round (Group B)
  • Defeated Sweden (9–5)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (6–4)
  • Lost to Australia (2–4)
  • Lost to Italy (3–4)
  • Lost to Romania (8–11) → 10th place
  • Team Roster
  • Ioannis Vossos
  • Thomas Karalogos
  • Sotirios Stathakis
  • Spyros Kapralos
  • Kiriakos Giannopoulos
  • Aris Kefalogiannis
  • Ioannis Garifallos
  • Andreas Gounas
  • Antonios Aronis
  • Markellos Sitarenios
  • Ioannis Giannouris

Weightlifting

Heavyweight (100–110 kg)

  • Dimitrios Zarzavatsidis

Bantamweight (–56 kg)

  • Ioannis-Sidiropoulos

Flyweight (–52 kg)

  • Ioannis Katsaidonis

Middle Heavyweight (82.5–90 kg)

  • Nikos Iliadis

Lightweight (60–67.5 kg)

  • Pavlos Lespouridis

Wrestling

Greco-Roman Light-Heavyweight (82–90 kg)

  • Georgios Pozidis

Greco-Roman Heavyweight (90–100 kg)

  • Georgios Pozidis

Greco-Roman Flyweight (48–52 kg)

  • Charalambos Cholidis

Freestyle Featherweight (57–62 kg)

  • Georgios Khatziioannidis – Bronze Medal

Greco-Roman Featherweight (57–62 kg)

  • Stelios Mygiakis – Gold Medal

Sailing

Triplehanded Keelboat

  • Aristidis Rapanakis – Bronze Medal
  • Anastasios Gavrilis – Bronze Medal
  • Tasos Bountouris – Bronze Medal

Singlehanded Dinghy (Finn Class)

  • Ilias Khatzipavlis

Shooting

Mixed Skeet

  • Petros Pappas
  • Rodolfos Georgios-Alexakos

Mixed 50m Rifle, Prone

  • Athanasios Papageorgiou

Rowing

Coxless Pairs

  • Georgios Kourkoumbas
  • Nikolaos Ioannidis

Single Sculls

  • Kostas Kontomanolis

References
  1. "Olympedia – Greece at the 1980 Summer Olympics".
  2. "Olympics' Original Site in Greece Offered as the Permanent Home". The New York Times. 3 February 1980.
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