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competed at the

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. Greek athletes have competed in every

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. Of the four nations that have been to every Summer Games (the others being

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, and

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), 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 (

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flew the flag of the New Zealand Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association) in protest of the USSR's involvement in the Afghan Civil War.

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 Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...

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 *

Sofia Sakorafa Sofia Sakorafa ( el, Σοφία Σακοράφα, born 29 April 1957 in Trikala, Greece) is a Greek-Palestinian politician and former javelin thrower. She was a Member of the European Parliament for Greece as member of the political party MeRA25 ...

:* Qualification – no mark (→ did not advance)

Water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

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 Thomas Karalogos (born 5 August 1951) is a Greek former water polo player who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics, in the 1972 Summer Olympics, and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. He played at club level for Greek powerhouse Ethnikos Piraeus Ethn ...

Sotirios Stathakis Sotirios Stathakis (born 15 April 1953) is a former Greek Water Polo player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics. See also * Greece men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics * List of men's Olympic W ...

:* Spyros Kapralos :* Kiriakos Giannopoulos :* Aris Kefalogiannis :* Ioannis Garifallos :*

Andreas Gounas Andreas Gounas (born 26 August 1957) is a Greek former water polo player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angele ...

:* Antonios Aronis :*

Markellos Sitarenios Markellos Sitarenios (born 14 May 1956) is a Greek former water polo player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He played at club level for Greek powerhouse Ethnikos Piraeus. He won 14 consecutive Greek champi ...

:* Ioannis Giannouris

Weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...

Heavyweight (100–110 kg) * Dimitrios Zarzavatsidis Bantamweight (–56 kg) * Ioannis-Sidiropoulos Flyweight (–52 kg) * Ioannis Katsaidonis Middle Heavyweight (82.5–90 kg) *

Nikos Iliadis Nikos Iliadis (born 27 February 1951) is a Greek weightlifter. He competed at the 1972, 1976, 1980 and the 1984 Summer Olympics. He was named the 1976 and 1977 Greek Male Athlete of the Year The PSAT Sports Awards (Greek: Αθλητικά Βρ ...

Lightweight (60–67.5 kg) * Pavlos Lespouridis

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

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 Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

Triplehanded Keelboat * Aristidis Rapanakis – Bronze Medal * Anastasios Gavrilis – Bronze Medal * Tasos Bountouris – Bronze Medal Singlehanded Dinghy (Finn Class) * Ilias Khatzipavlis

Shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles can ...

Mixed Skeet * Petros Pappas * Rodolfos Georgios-Alexakos Mixed 50m Rifle, Prone * Athanasios Papageorgiou

Rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically atta ...

Coxless Pairs * Georgios Kourkoumbas *

Nikolaos Ioannidis Nikolaos Ioannidis ( gr, Νικόλαος Ιωαννίδης; born 26 April 1994) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a striker for Super League 2 club Athens Kallithea. Club career Early career Although born in Germany, Nikos Io ...

Single Sculls * Kostas Kontomanolis

References

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International Olympic Committee results database

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