Greece_at_the_1920_Summer_Olympics Knowpia

Greece at the
1920 Summer Olympics
Greece at the; 1920 Summer Olympics
IOC code	GRE
NOC	Hellenic Olympic Committee
Website	www.hoc.gr (in Greek and English)
in Antwerp
Competitors	47 in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Vasilios Zarkadis
Medals; Ranked 19th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 1
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 competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 47 competitors, all men, took part in 34 events in 8 sports.^[1] Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.

Medalists edit

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Georgios Moraitinis Iason Sappas Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Alexandros Vrasivanopoulos	Shooting	Men's 30 m team military pistol	August 3

Aquatics edit

Water polo edit

Greece competed in the Olympic water polo tournament for the first time in 1920. The Bergvall System was in use at the time. Greece was shut out by the United States in the quarterfinals. It is unclear why the Greeks received a place in the third-place tournament, as the Americans had not won either gold or silver, but Greece beat Italy in the quarterfinals of the bronze medal tournament before losing again to the United States in the bronze semifinals.

Quarterfinals

United States

7–0

Greece

Antwerp

Bronze medal quarterfinals

Greece

5–1

Italy

Antwerp

Bronze medal semifinals

United States

7–0

Greece

Antwerp

Final rank: 5th

Athletics edit

Nine athletes represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's sixth appearance in athletics, having competed in the sport at every Olympics. The Stockholm Games were only the second time that no Greek won a medal in athletics.

Ranks given are within the heat.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Dimitrios Andromidas	110 m hurdles	N/A		Unknown	5	did not advance
	High jump	1.65	16	N/A				did not advance
	Pentathlon	N/A						did not finish
	Decathlon	N/A						did not finish
Dimitrios Karambatis	100 m	Unknown	4	did not advance
Dimitrios Karambatis	200 m	24.2	3	did not advance
Alexandros Kranis	5000 m	N/A				Unknown	6	did not advance
	10000 m	N/A				Unknown	7	did not advance
	Cross country	N/A						Unknown	38
Apostolos Nikolaidis	Decathlon	N/A						did not finish
Menelaos Ponireas	Triple jump	12.60	18	N/A				did not advance
Panagiotis Retelas	5000 m	N/A				did not finish		did not advance
Konstantinos Roubesis	Pentathlon	N/A						did not finish
Iraklis Sakellaropoulos	Marathon	N/A						3:14:25.0	32
Panagiotis Trivoulidas	Marathon	N/A						did not finish
Panagiotis Trivoulidas	Cross country	N/A						Unknown	39

Fencing edit

Three fencers represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport.

Ranks given are within the group.

Fencer	Event	First round		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Fencer	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
S. Antonidas	Épée	4–5	5 Q	3–8	11	did not advance
Evangelos Skotidas	Épée	4–3	2 Q	5–6	7	did not advance
Evangelos Skotidas	Sabre	N/A		3–4	5	did not advance
Vasilios Zarkadis	Épée	1–7	8	did not advance
Vasilios Zarkadis	Sabre	N/A		4–4	5	did not advance

Football edit

Greece competed in the Olympic football tournament for the first time. The country was defeated in the first round by Sweden.

Team Roster

Ioannis Andrianopoulos
Theodoros Dimitriou
Antonios Fotiadis
Agamemnon Gilis
Dimitrios Gotis
Georgios Kalafatis
Nikolaos Kaloudis
Georgios Khatziandreou
Apostolos Nikolaidis
Theodoros Nikolaidis
Khristos Peppas
Reserve:Dimitris Demertzis
Reserve:Ioannis Stavropoulos
Reserve:Vassilis Samios
Reserve:Sotiris Despotopoulos
Reserve:Georgio Andrianopoulos

First round

28 August 1920

Sweden	9–0	Greece
Olsson 4' 79' Karlsson 15' 20' 21' 51' 85' Wicksell 25' Dahl 31'	Report

Olympisch Stadion, Antwerp

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Charles Barette (BEL)

Final rank: 10th

Shooting edit

Nine shooters represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's fourth appearance in the sport. Greece took a silver medal in the team military pistol, its first medal in shooting since 1896.

Shooter	Event	Final
Shooter	Event	Result	Rank
Konstantinos Kefalas	50 m small-bore rifle	Unknown
Georgios Moraitinis	300 m free rifle, 3 pos.	Unknown
Emmanouil Peristerakis	50 m small-bore rifle	Unknown
Iason Sappas	50 m free pistol	464	8
Iason Sappas	300 m free rifle, 3 pos.	Unknown
Alexandros Theofilakis	300 m free rifle, 3 pos.	Unknown
Ioannis Theofilakis	50 m free pistol	462	10
	50 m small-bore rifle	Unknown
	300 m free rifle, 3 pos.	Unknown
	600 m military rifle, prone	59	4
Andreas Vikhos	50 m small-bore rifle	Unknown
Alexandros Vrasivanopoulos	300 m free rifle, 3 pos.	Unknown
Vasileios Xylinakis	50 m small-bore rifle	Unknown
Konstantinos Kefalas Emmanouil Peristerakis Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Andreas Vikhos	300 m team military rifle, prone	270	11
	600 m team military rifle, prone	270	7
Konstantinos Kefalas Emmanouil Peristerakis Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Vasileios Xylinakis	300 & 600 m team military rifle, prone	553	7
Konstantinos Kefalas Emmanouil Peristerakis Ioannis Theofilakis Andreas Vikhos Vasileios Xylinakis	50 m team small-bore rifle	1727	10
	300 m team military rifle, standing	209	13
Georgios Moraitinis Iason Sappas Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Alexandros Vrasivanopoulos	30 m team military pistol	1285
	50 m team free pistol	2240	4
	Team free rifle	3910	13

Tennis edit

A single tennis player, in the men's singles, competed for Greece in 1920. It was the nation's second appearance in the sport, and first since 1896. Zerlentis lost his first match, though that single match took 66 games over 4 sets to complete.

Player	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals	Rank
Player	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Athanasios Zerlentis	Men's singles	Bye	Lowe (GBR) L 14–12, 8–10, 7–5, 6–4	did not advance				17

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
Great Britain	0	1	.000

Total	0	1	.000

Round	Wins	Losses	Percent
Round of 64	0	0	–
Round of 32	0	1	.000
Round of 16	0	0	–
Quarterfinals	0	0	–
Semifinals	0	0	–
Final	0	0	–
Bronze match	0	0	–

Total	0	1	.000

Weightlifting edit

A single weightlifter represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport, in which Greece was the only country to have competed at both prior appearances in 1896 and 1900.

Weightlifter	Event	Final
Weightlifter	Event	Result	Rank
Evangelos Menexis	67.5 kg	205.0	10

Wrestling edit

Five wrestlers competed for Greece in 1920. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport. Notaris was the only one to win a match. Both Dialetis and Vergos competed in both freestyle and Greco-Roman.

Freestyle edit

Wrestler	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals / Bronze match	Rank
Ioannis Dialetis	Featherweight	N/A	Ackerly (USA) (L)	did not advance			9
Dimitrios Vergos	Middleweight	Bye	Borgström (SWE) (L)	did not advance			9

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
Sweden	0	1	.000
United States	0	1	.000

Total	0	2	.000

Round	Wins	Losses	Percent
Round of 32	0	0	–
Round of 16	0	2	.000
Quarterfinals	0	0	–
Semifinals	0	0	–
Final	0	0	–
Bronze match	0	0	–

Total	0	2	.000

Greco-Roman edit

Wrestler	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals	Rank
				Silver quarters	Silver semis	Silver match
				Bronze quarters	Bronze semis	Bronze match
Ioannis Dialetis	Featherweight	Brian (USA) (L)	did not advance	did not advance			17
				N/A	did not advance
				did not advance
Sotirios Notaris	Middleweight	Müller (EST) (W)	Stensrud (NOR) (L)	did not advance			13
				did not advance
				did not advance
Vasilios Pavlidis	Lightweight	Frisenfeldt (DEN) (L)	did not advance	did not advance			18
				did not advance
				did not advance
Dimitrios Vergos	Heavyweight	Bye	Sjouwerman (NED) (L)	did not advance			12
				did not advance
				did not advance
Vasilios Vouyoukos	Lightweight	Bye	Metropoulos (USA) (L)	did not advance			12
				did not advance
				did not advance

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
Denmark	0	1	.000
Estonia	1	0	1.000
Netherlands	0	1	.000
Norway	0	1	.000
United States	0	2	.000

Total	1	5	.167

Round	Wins	Losses	Percent
Round of 32	1	2	.333
Round of 16	0	3	.000
Quarterfinals	0	0	–
Semifinals	0	0	–
Final	0	0	–
Silver quarterfinals	0	0	–
Silver semifinals	0	0	–
Silver match	0	0	–
Bronze quarterfinals	0	0	–
Bronze semifinals	0	0	–
Bronze match	0	0	–

Total	1	5	.167

References edit

^ "Greece at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.

External links edit

Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French).
Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2007.
International Olympic Committee results database