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Medals in Current Games

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General Interest

@ PYEONGCHANG 2018
Greece competed with a team of four athletes (two men, two women) in Alpine skiing and cross-country skiing, with a best finish of 46th by Ioannis Antoniou in men's giant slalom skiing.

PYEONGCHANG 2018 FLAGBEARERS
Opening Ceremony: Sophia Ralli (ALP)
Closing Ceremony: Ioannis Antoniou (ALP)

OLYMPIC GAMES HISTORY
Greece is the home of the Olympic Games, the Ancient Olympic Games having been held there from at least 776 BCE until 393 CE. The Modern Olympic Games were revived and first held at Athens 1896. Greece has participated at every edition since and its athletes march first into the stadium at every Opening Ceremony.

Greece made its Olympic Winter Games debut at Squaw Valley 1960 and it has been represented by 67 Winter Olympians (54 men, 13 women), who have competed in Alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, luge, skeleton, ski jumping and snowboarding. Its best finish at the Olympic Winter Games has been 13th by Cindy Ninos in women's skeleton at Salt Lake City 2002.

Cross-country skier Panagiota Tsakiri became the youngest Greek athlete to compete at an Olympic Winter Games at Torino 2006, at age 15 years and 285 days. Tsakiri switched to biathlon at Vancouver 2010, where she was part of the same Greek team as her father Athanassios, appearing in his fifth Olympic Winter Games. The pair made history as the first father and daughter to compete at the same edition of the Olympic Winter Games.

Greece's athletes have won 121 medals (35 gold) in the Olympic Games, with many of those being won in Athens in 1896 (47 medals, including 10 gold) and 2004 (16 medals, including six gold).

Pyrros Dimas leads the Greek medal list with four medals (three gold) in weightlifting. He is the only Greek to win three gold medals. Kostas Tsiklitiras and Nikolaos Georgantas each won four medals in the early years of the Olympic Games.

OLYMPIC HOSTS
Athens - 1896 Olympic Games
Athens - 2004 Olympic Games

MILESTONES

First Competitor, Female: Thomai Lefousi (22 February 1988) - 1988 - Alpine Skiing (Super-G) - DSQ
First Competitor, Male: Dimitrios Negrepontis (7 February 1936) - 1936 - Alpine Skiing (Combined) - DNF

Youngest Competitor, Female: Panagiota Tsakiri (15y-285d) - 2006 - Cross-Country Skiing (Sprint) - 66th
Youngest Competitor, Male: Giannis Stamatiou (17y-224d) - 1980 - Alpine Skiing (Giant Slalom) - 52nd

Oldest Competitor, Female: Sophia Ralli (29y-348d) - 2018 - Alpine Skiing (Slalom) - 44th
Oldest Competitor, Male: Thanasis Tsakiris (45y-033d) - 2010 - Biathlon (20km) - 80th

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Anthem

Hymnos is tin Eleftherian (Hymn to Freedom)
Music: Nikolaos Mantzaros, Lyrics: Dionysios Solomos
1864

Flagbearers

Membership

1894
1895

Officials

Spyros Capralos
Emmanuel Kolympadis
Current:Spyros Capralos (entry into IOC: 2019)Former:Demetrios Vikelas (1894-1897)Alexandros Merkati (1897-1925)Giorgios Averof (1926-1930)Nikolaos Politis (1930-1933)Ioannis Ketseas (1946-1965)Crown Prince Konstantinos II (1963-1974)Pyrros Lappas (1965-1981)Epaminondas Petralias (1975-1977)Nikolaos Nisiotis (1978-1986)Nikos Filaretos (1981-2005)Lambis Nikolaou (1986-2015)HM King Constantine (IOC member from 1963 to 1974, Honorary Member since 1974)Lambis V. Nikolaou (IOC member from 1986 to 2015, Honorary Member since 2016)

Participation

1936
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