Filippos Karvelas ( el, Φίλιππος Καρβελάς; 1877 in

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– 7 November 1952 in Athens) was a

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. He competed at the

1896 Summer Olympics The 1896 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 1896, Therinoí Olympiakoí Agónes 1896), officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 1ης Ολυμπιάδας, Agónes tis 1is Ol ...

. Karvelas competed in both the individual and team events of the

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. He did not win a medal in the individual event, though his ranking is unknown. In the team event, Karvelas was a member of the Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos team that placed third of the three teams in the event, giving him a

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* 1877 births 1952 deaths Gymnasts at the 1896 Summer Olympics 19th-century sportsmen Greek male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts of Greece Olympic bronze medalists for Greece Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics Gymnasts from Athens Date of birth missing 19th-century Greek people 20th-century Greek people {{Greece-Olympic-medalist-stub