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Greece at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	GRE
NPC	Hellenic Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.gr
in Athens
Competitors	124 in 17 sports
Flag bearer	Konstantinos Fykas
Medals Ranked 34th	Gold 3 Silver 13 Bronze 4 Total 20
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Greece competed as the host nation of the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 124 athletes, 107 men and 17 women. Competitors from Greece won 20 medals, including 3 gold, 13 silver and 4 bronze to finish 34th in the medal table.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Charalampos Taiganidis	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke S13
Gold	Charalampos Taiganidis	Swimming	Men's 100 m butterfly S13
Gold	Christos Tampaxis	Swimming	Men's 50 m backstroke S1
Silver	Christos Tampaxis	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle S1
Silver	Christos Tampaxis	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle S1
Silver	Anthi Karagianni	Athletics	Women's 100 m T13
Silver	Anthi Karagianni	Athletics	Women's 400 m T13
Silver	Anthi Karagianni	Athletics	Women's long jump F13
Silver	Konstantinos Fykas	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle S8
Silver	Konstantinos Fykas	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle S8
Silver	Maria Kalpakidou	Swimming	Women's 50 m backstroke S2
Silver	Maria Kalpakidou	Swimming	Women's 50 m freestyle S2
Silver	Charalampos Taiganidis	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle S13
Silver	Georgios Karaminas	Athletics	Men's shot put F52
Silver	Efthymios Kalaras	Athletics	Men's discus throw F54
Silver	Alexandros Taxildaris	Swimming	Men's 50 m backstroke S1
Bronze	Christos Angourakis	Athletics	Men's shot put F53
Bronze	Paraskevi Kantza	Athletics	Women's 100 m T11
Bronze	Georgios Kapellakis	Swimming	Men's 50 m backstroke S2
Bronze	Ioannis Kostakis	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle S3

Sports

Archery

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Romaios Roumeliotis	Men's individual standing	469	22	Atamanenko (UKR) L 116-147	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Anna Tzika	Women's individual standing	549	7	—	Wolak (POL) W 130-128	Wang (CHN) L 91-101	did not advance

Athletics

Men's track

Men's field

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
			Result	Points	Rank
Dimitrios Alexiou	F11	Long jump	5.85	-	6
		Triple jump	12.35	-	5
Panagiotis Angeletos	F36	Shot put	8.98	-	8
Christos Angourakis	F52-53	Javelin	15.99	835	14
	F53	Shot put	7.65	-
Stefanos Anargyrou	F56	Shot put	10.34	-	8
Evangelos Bakolas	F33-34	Discus	16.86	-	9
		Shot put	9.10	846	5
Athanasios Barakas	F11	Long jump	5.87	-	5
		Triple jump	11.39	-	8
Polychronis Chronopoulos	F52	Shot put	7.30	-	7
Athanasios Deligiorgis	F42	Discus	33.60	-	8
		Shot put	12.42	-	4
Zacharias Fostiras	F52	Shot put	7.90	-	6
Efthymios Kalaras	F54	Discus	28.07	-
Georgios Karaminas	F52	Shot put	8.51	-
	F52-53	Javelin	14.46	905	10
Loukas Kaskanis	F11	Javelin	DNS
		Shot put	11.65	-	5
Athanasios Koltsidas	F33-34	Shot put	9.06	944	6
Dimitrios Konstantagkas	F56	Shot put	11.05	-	5
Miltiadis Kyriakidis	F44/46	Shot put	13.26	912	8
Symeon Paltsanitidis	F55	Discus	30.53	-	5
Georgios Pappas	F44/46	Shot put	14.27	982	5
Miltiadis Stathopoulos	F44/46	High jump	1.80	-	6
Georgios Toptsis	F46	Triple jump	12.41	-	8
Gerasimos Vryonis	F52-53	Javelin	17.67	922	8
	F53	Shot put	7.48	-	4

Women's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Paraskevi Kantza	T11	100m	13.33	4 q	13.32	4 q	13.34
		200m	28.57	5 Q	27.48	4 q	27.29	4
Anthi Karagianni	T13	100m	—				12.87
		400m	—				1:00.13
Eleni Samaritaki	T36	100m	—				15.78	6
		200m	—				32.90	5

Women's field

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
			Result	Points	Rank
Anthi Karagianni	F13	Long jump	5.29	-

Boccia

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries			Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opponent	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Maria Tsilikopoulou	Mixed individual BC2	Murray (GBR)	DNS	4	did not advance
		Hayes (IRL)	DNS
		Femtegield (NOR)	L 2-5
Grigorios Polychronidis	Mixed individual BC3	Hanson (USA)	W 3-2	2 Q	Costa (POR) L 1-6	did not advance
		Macedo (POR)	W 7-2
		Cronin (IRL)	W 4-1
		Bidlas (CZE)	L 4-5
Anastasia Chatzipanagiotidou	Mixed individual BC4	Valentim (POR)	L 1-10	5	did not advance
		Beres (HUN)	L 1-7
		Gomez (ESP)	L 2-5
		Gyurkota (HUN)	L 1-7
Emmanouil Mourtos		Dueso (ESP)	L 1-10	3	did not advance
		de Oliveria Pereira (POR)	L 3-10
		Vandervies (CAN)	W 4-3
		Ledesma (ARG)	W 9-1

Cycling

Men's road

Men's track

Equestrian

Football 5-a-side

The men's football 5-a-side team didn't win any medals, they defeated by Spain in the bronze medal match.

Players

• Georgios Alikaniotis
• Dimitris Ampatzis
• Paschalis Ampatzis
• Angelis Aslanoglou
• Estratios Chatziapostolidis
• Christoforos Katsampalis
• Ioannis Papnikolaou
• Charalampos Tokatlidis
• Argyrios Triantafyllou
• Dimos Zacharos

Tournament

Game	Match	Score	Rank
1	Greece vs.  Brazil (BRA)	0 - 4	4
2	Greece vs.  Argentina (ARG)	1 - 2
3	Greece vs.  Spain (ESP)	0 - 0
4	Greece vs.  France (FRA)	2 - 2
5	Greece vs.  South Korea (KOR)	3 - 1
Bronze medal final	Greece vs.  Spain (ESP)	0 - 2	4

Goalball

The men's goalball team didn't win any medals, they were 12th out of 12 teams.

Players

• Nikolaos Argyros
• Athanasios Chasiotis
• Nikolaos Chatzidafnis
• Antonios Diamantopoulos
• Sotirios Michalpoulos
• Anastasios Trikalitis

Men's tournament

Game	Match	Score	Rank
1	Greece vs.  Denmark (DEN)	3 - 10	6
2	Greece vs.  Sweden (SWE)	5 - 10
3	Greece vs.  United States (USA)	1 - 11
4	Greece vs.  Canada (CAN)	5 - 13
5	Greece vs.  Germany (GER)	3 - 13
11th/12th classification	Greece vs.  Slovenia (SLO)	2 - 12	12

The women's goalball team didn't win any medals, they were knocked out in the preliminaries.

Players

• Antigoni Chatziapostolidou
• Vouziana Giota
• Styliani Iliopoulou
• Aikaterini Lorentzou
• Maria Tzalla
• Ioanna Zacharou

Women's tournament

Game	Match	Score	Rank
1	Greece vs.  Canada (CAN)	0 - 8	8
2	Greece vs.  United States (USA)	0 - 3
3	Greece vs.  Japan (JPN)	1 - 2
4	Greece vs.  Finland (FIN)	0 - 4
5	Greece vs.  Netherlands (NED)	1 - 6
6	Greece vs.  Germany (GER)	0 - 2
7	Greece vs.  Brazil (BRA)	0 - 1

Judo

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final/ Bronze medal contest
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Theoklitos Papachristos	Men's 100kg	—	Szott (USA) L 0010H-1000C	—	Matsumoto (JPN) W 1001S-0001S	Le Meaux (FRA) L 0101K-0110S	Did not advance
Efstathios Soutios	Men's 66kg	Garcia del Valle (ESP) L 0000–1010	—		Lee (KOR) L 0000-0010	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Final/ Bronze medal contest
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Maria Keramida	Women's 57kg	—	Payno (ESP) L 0000-1000	—	Buzmakova (RUS) L 0000-1000
Christina Skandli	Women's 48kg	Medjeded (FRA) L 0001–1100	—	Guo (CHN) L 0000-0220	Did not advance

Powerlifting

Men

Women

Sailing

Shooting

Men

Women

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Konstantinos Fykas	S8	50m freestyle	27.97	2 Q	27.54
		100m freestyle	1:01.74	2 Q	1:00.37
		400m freestyle	DNS		did not advance
		100m butterfly	DSQ		did not advance
	SB8	100m breaststroke	1:22.69	7 Q	1:23.72	7
Georgios Kapellakis	S2	50m freestyle	1:14.28	5 Q	1:14.41	5
		100m freestyle	2:52.56	9	did not advance
		200m freestyle	5:43.88	6 Q	5:49.36	8
		50m backstroke	1:17.98	7 Q	1:11.46
Nikolaos Kaplanis	S2	50m freestyle	1:22.69	11	did not advance
		100m freestyle	3:16.24	12	did not advance
		50m backstroke	1:24.43	11	did not advance
Ioannis Kostakis	S3	50m freestyle	55.42	7 Q	54.40	7
		100m freestyle	1:55.41	2 Q	1:55.79
		200m freestyle	4:08.87	2 Q	4:08.07	4
	SB2	50m breaststroke	1:14.53	8 Q	1:11.42	7
	SM3	150m individual medley	3:46.83	8 Q	3:39.78	8
Antonios Kymoundris	S2	50m freestyle	1:26.28	12	did not advance
		100m freestyle	3:00.09	11	did not advance
		200m freestyle	5:55.40	8 Q	5:42.32	7
		50m backstroke	1:21.99	10	did not advance
Georgios Papadimitriou	S3	50m backstroke	1:13.63	10	did not advance
	SB2	50m breaststroke	1:24.26	9	did not advance
Charalampos Taiganidis	S13	50m freestyle	24.90	1 Q	24.97
		100m backstroke	1:03.43 WR	1 Q	1:03.98
		100m butterfly	1:01.36	1 Q	1:01.50
Christos Tampaxis	S1	50m freestyle	N/A		1:31.00
		100m freestyle	N/A		2:56.64
		50m backstroke	N/A		1:22.20 PR
Alexandros Taxildaris	S1	50m freestyle	N/A		1:55.91	5
		100m freestyle	N/A		3:48.41	4
		50m backstroke	N/A		1:42.34
Stylianos Tsakonas	S4	200m freestyle	3:46.12	10	did not advance
		50m backstroke	55.08	10	did not advance
Fotios Zafeiris	S4	50m freestyle	44.77	7 Q	44.87	8
		100m freestyle	1:46.95	10	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Maria Kalpakidou	S2	50m freestyle	N/A		1:28.70
		100m freestyle	N/A		3:19.24	4
		50m backstroke	N/A		1:28.30

Table tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Antonio Kalyvas	Men's singles 5	Robles (ESP) L 0-3	Bolldén (SWE) L 0-3	Nilsen (RSA) L 0-3	4	did not advance
Polychronis Politsis	Men's singles 6	Arnold (GER) L 1-3	Hassan (EGY) L 2-3	Kersten (NED) L 1-3	4	did not advance
Konstantinos Siachos	Men's singles 3	Kesler (SCG) L 0–3	Kramminger (AUT) L 0–3	Glazar (CZE) L 0–3	4	did not advance
Antonios Kalyvas Konstantinos Siachos	Men's teams 5	Chinese Taipei (TPE) L 0-3	Sweden (SWE) L 0-3	—	3	did not advance

Volleyball

The men's volleyball team didn't win any medals, they were 8th out of 8 teams.

Players

• Marinos Anagnostopoulos
• Emmanouil Drakonakis
• Christos Konstantakopoulos
• Anastasios Kostaris
• Eleftherios Lamprakis
• Kyriakos Makris
• Nikolaos Mallios
• Ioannis Somos
• Ioannis Soukiouroglou
• Emmanouil Touloupakis
• Panagiotis Vakondios
• Georgios Zafeiropoulos

Men's tournament

Game	Match	Score	Rank
1	Greece vs.  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	0 - 3	4
2	Greece vs.  Egypt (EGY)	0 - 3
3	Greece vs.  United States (USA)	1 - 3
Quarterfinals	Greece vs.  Iran (IRI)	0 - 3	L
Semifinals	Greece vs.  Finland (FIN)	0 - 3	L
7th/8th classification	Greece vs.  Japan (JPN)	1 - 3	8

Wheelchair basketball

The men's team didn't any medals, they were 12th out of 12 teams.

Players

• Michalis Chatzidimitriou
• Panagiotis Chrisovergis
• Angelos Dimpitouzis
• Georgios Echlert
• Vaios Gioras
• Georgios Kounias
• Nikolaos Loulas
• Athanasios Maltas
• Georgios Petrakis
• Michalis Stergiopoulous
• Periklis Tsapanidis
• Angelos Tsiakiris

Men's tournament

Game	Match	Score	Rank
1	Greece vs.  Netherlands (NED)	34 - 95	6
2	Greece vs.  United States (USA)	27 - 85
3	Greece vs.  Germany (GER)	39 - 101
4	Greece vs.  Japan (JPN)	32 - 73
5	Greece vs.  Iran (IRI)	33 - 81
11th/12th classification	Greece vs.  France (FRA)	55 - 78	12

Wheelchair fencing

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition	Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Emmanouil Bogdos	Men's foil B	Czop (POL)	L 0-5	5	did not advance
		Latreche (FRA)	L 2-5
		Moreno (USA)	L 0-5
		Sarri (ITA)	L 0-5
	Men's sabre B	Wysmierski (POL)	L 2-5	6 Q	Szekeres (HUN) L 7-15	did not advance
		Durand (FRA)	L 3-5
		Mayer (GER)	L 2-5
		Szekeres (HUN)	L 1-5
		Heaton (GBR)	L 1-5
		Shumate (USA)	W 5-1
Nikolaos Peppas	Men's épée A	Al Qallaf (KUW)	L 1–5	6	did not advance
		Lipinski (GER)	L 2-5
		Jablonski (POL)	L 2-5
		Tai (HKG)	L 1-5
		More (FRA)	L 1-5
		Rodriguez (ESP)	W 5-4
	Men's foil A	Pender (POL)	L 2-5	4 Q	Fung (HKG) L 0-15	did not advance
		Kwong (HKG)	L 0-5
		Citerne (FRA)	W 5-4
		Rodriguez (USA)	W 5-4

Wheelchair tennis

Men

Athlete	Class	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
			Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Konstantinos Vazouras	Open	Men's singles	Bonaccurso (AUS) L 1-6, 0-6	did not advance

See also

• Greece at the Paralympics
• Greece at the 2004 Summer Olympics

References

1. "Participation Numbers Athens 2004 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
2. "Medal Standings Athens 2004 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 June 2011.

• Nations at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
• Greece at the Paralympics
• 2004 in Greek sport