Greece at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Greece at the 1984 Summer Olympics
IOC code	GRE
NOC	Hellenic Olympic Committee
Website	www.hoc.gr (Greek) (English)
in Los Angeles
Competitors	63 (59 men and 4 women) in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Stelios Mygiakis
Medals Ranked 30th	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 1 1 2
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Greece competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 63 competitors, 59 men and 4 women, took part in 49 events in 11 sports.^[1] Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.

Medalists

Silver

• Dimitrios Thanopoulos — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight

Bronze

• Charalambos Cholidis — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight

Athletics

Men's Marathon

• Michail Koussis

• Final — 2:17:38 (→ 26th place)

Men's High Jump

• Dimitrios Kattis

• Qualification — 2.15m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

• Dimitrios Koutsoukis

• Qualifying Round — 18.74 m (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw

• Anna Verouli

• Qualification — DSQ (→ did not advance)

Boxing

Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg)

• Georgios Stefanopoulos

• First Round – Bye
• Second Round – Defeated Douglas Young (GBR), KO-2
• Quarterfinals – Lost to Arnold Vanderlyde (HOL), 0:5

Cycling

Two cyclists represented Greece in 1984.

Individual road race

• Kanellos Kanellopoulos – did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Ilias Kelesidis – did not finish (→ no ranking)

Fencing

One male fencer represented Greece in 1984.

Men's sabre

• Zisis Babanasis

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 100m Backstroke

• Ilias Malamas

• Heat — 58.69 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

• Kristofer Stivenson

• Heat — 58.76 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

• Kristofer Stivenson

• Heat — 2:08.38 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

• Kristofer Stivenson

• Heat — 55.46
• B-Final — 55.61 (→ 12th place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

• Kristofer Stivenson

• Heat — 2:02.94 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 100m Freestyle

• Sofia Dara

• Heat — 59.25 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 200m Freestyle

• Sofia Dara

• Heat — 2:09.42 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 400m Freestyle

• Sofia Dara

• Heat — 4:31.76 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 800m Freestyle

• Sophia Dara

• Heat — DNS (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Lost to United States (5-12)
• Lost to Spain (9-12)
• Drew with Brazil (9-9)

• Final Round (Group E)

• Defeated Canada (11-8)
• Defeated Japan (14-7)
• Drew with Italy (8-8)
• Defeated China (10-9) → 8th place

• Team Roster

• Ioannis Vossos
• Spyros Capralos
• Sotirios Stathakis
• Andreas Gounas
• Kiriakos Giannopoulos
• Aristidis Kefalogiannis
• Anastasios Papanastasiou
• Dimitrios Seletopoulos
• Antonios Aronis
• Markellos Sitarenios
• George Mavrotas
• Xenofon Moudatsios
• Stavros Giannopoulos

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References