POLYCHRONIDIS Grigorios

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
1	Pairs - BC3	2012	London, GBR
2	Individual - BC3	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
2	Individual - BC3	2008	Beijing, CHN
3	Pairs - BC3	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
5	Individual - BC3	2012	London, GBR
5	Pairs - BC3	2008	Beijing, CHN
5	Individual - BC3	2004	Athens, GRE
World Championships
1	Individual - BC3	2018	Liverpool, GBR
1	Pairs - BC3	2018	Liverpool, GBR
2	Individual - BC3	2006	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
4	Individual - BC3	2014	Beijing, CHN
4	Pairs - BC3	2014	Beijing, CHN
4	Pairs - BC3	2010	Lisbon, POR
5	Individual - BC3	2010	Lisbon, POR
European Championships
1	Individual - BC3	2019	Seville, ESP
2	Pairs - BC3	2019	Seville, ESP
3	Individual - BC3	2017	Povoa de Varzim, POR

Greg (Facebook page, 18 Oct 2019)

Athlete, Sports Administrator

Accounting - Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Wife Katerina Patroni

English, Greek, Russian

His wife Katerina Patroni has served as his sports assistant at competitions. (Facebook page, 12 Mar 2020; paralympic.org, 16 Aug 2017)

2002 for Greece (bocciahellas.gr, 2013)

He first tried the sport in 2001 and began competing the following year. (gregpoly.gr, 12 Apr 2014)

He took up the sport with the ambition to compete at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens. "I contacted my former physiotherapist George Tzimas, who encouraged me to take up the sport. Initially I did not even know about the existence of boccia. I was thrilled when I first engaged with the sport." (paralympicus.gr, 03 Nov 2015; gregpoly.gr, 12 Apr 2014; tokyo2020.org, 17 Sep 2020)

To win a medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (paralympic.gr, 08 Aug 2017)

Winning gold in the BC3 individual event at the 2018 World Championships in Liverpool, England. (tokyo2020.org, 17 Sep 2020)

His father Damianos Polychronidis, his godfather Thoma Chabazi and coach Georgios Tzimas. (gregpoly.gr, 12 Apr 2014)

"In every event I compete for victory." (paralympicus.gr, 03 Nov 2015)

He was named the 2018 Best Male Athlete with an Impairment at the Gazzetta Awards in Greece. (newsitamea.gr, 04 Jan 2019)

In August 2018 he was named the International Paralympic Committee [IPC] Athlete of the Month after winning two gold medals at the 2018 World Championships in Liverpool, England. (paralympic.org, 11 Sep 2018)

He was flag bearer for Greece at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (myinfo.rio2016.com, 06 Sep 2016)

He and fellow Greek boccia players Nikolaos Pananos and Anna Ntenta were named the 2015 Best Team of the Year with an Impairment by the Panhellenic Association of Sports Press [PSAT] in Greece. (paralympic.org, 04 Jan 2016)

In 2004 he was named an Honorary Citizen of Athens by the Greek parliament. (gregpoly.gr, 01 Dec 2011)