Greece at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Greece at the
2008 Summer Paralympics
Greece at the; 2008 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	GRE
NPC	Hellenic Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.gr
in Beijing
Competitors	69 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Charalampos Taiganidis
Medals ; Ranked 20th	Gold5Silver9Bronze10Total24
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Last updated October 12, 2025

Greece competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. The national team of Greece was composed of 69 athletes, 53 men and 16 women, who competed in 11 sports, archery, athletics, boccia, cycling, judo, powerlifting, sailing, shooting, swimming, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair tennis.^[1] Contrary to the tradition in the Summer Olympic Games, Greece did not enter first during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony but 69th in name order in Chinese, with the swimmer Charalampos Taiganidis being the team's flag bearer.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Charalampos Taiganidis	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle S13
Gold	Georgios Kapellakis	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle S2
Gold	Charalampos Taiganidis	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke S13
Gold	Paschalis Stathelakos	Athletics	Men's shot put F40
Gold	Christos Tampaxis	Swimming	Men's 50 metre backstroke S1
Silver	Georgios Kapellakis	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle S2
Silver	Alexandra Dimoglou	Athletics	Women's 400 m T13
Silver	Anthi Karagianni	Athletics	Women's long jump F13
Silver	Grigorios Polychronidis	Boccia	Mixed individual BC3
Silver	Charalampos Taiganidis	Swimming	Men's 100 m butterfly S13
Silver	Charalampos Taiganidis	Swimming	Men's 200 m individual medley SM13
Silver	Pavlos Mamalos	Powerlifting	Men's 82.50 kg
Silver	Andreas Katsaros	Swimming	Men's 50 metre backstroke S1
Silver	Charalampos Taiganidis	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle S13
Bronze	Georgios Kapellakis	Swimming	Men's 200 m freestyle S2
Bronze	Ioannis Protos	Athletics	Men's 400 m T13
Bronze	Charalampos Taiganidis	Swimming	Men's 400 m freestyle S13
Bronze	Anastasios Tsiou	Athletics	Men's shot put F57/58
Bronze	Alexandra Dimoglou	Athletics	Women's 200 m T13
Bronze	Athanasios Barakas	Athletics	Men's long jump F11
Bronze	Maria Stamatoula	Athletics	Women's shot put F32-34/52/53
Bronze	Georgios Kapellakis	Swimming	Men's 50 metre backstroke S2
Bronze	Che Jon Fernandes	Athletics	Men's shot put F53/54
Bronze	Alexandra Dimoglou	Athletics	Women's 100 m T13

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Swimming	4	5	3	12
Athletics	1	2	7	10
Boccia	0	1	0	1
Powerlifting	0	1	0	1
Total	5	9	10	24

Multiple medallists

The following Greek athletes won multiple medals at the 2008 Paralympic Games.

Name	Medal	Sport	Events
Charalampos Taiganidis	Gold Gold Silver Silver Silver Bronze	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle S13 Men's 100 m backstroke S13 Men's 100 m butterfly S13 Men's 200 m individual medley SM13 Men's 50 m freestyle S13 Men's 400 m freestyle S13
Georgios Kapellakis	Gold Silver Bronze Bronze	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle S2 Men's 100 m freestyle S2 Men's 200 m freestyle S2 Men's 50 m backstroke S2
Alexandra Dimoglou	Silver Bronze Bronze	Athletics	Women's 400 m T13 Women's 200 m T13 Women's 100 m T13

Archery

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Romaios Roumeliotis	Individual recurve - Standing	475	24	Zarzuela (ESP) L 90-97	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Anna Tzika	Individual recurve - Standing	550	10	BYE	Byambasuren (MGL) W 90-85	Gao (CHN) L 83-106	did not advance

Boccia

Athlete	Event	Match 1	Match 2	Match 3	Rank	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Dimitrios Michos	Individual BC3	Pesquera (ESP) L 0-14	Kabush (CAN) L 1-6	Raimundo (POR) L 1-5	4	did not advance
Grigorios Polychronidis	Individual BC3	Zhu (CHN) W 11-1	Dijkstra (NZL) W 19-0	Sukkarath (THA) W 7-0	1 Q	Gauthier (CAN) W 6-3	Jeong (KOR) W 4-1	Park (KOR) L 2-3
Maria Stavropoulou	Individual BC3	Gauthier (CAN) L 1-9	Costa (POR) L 3-5	Martin (ESP) L 2-11	4	did not advance
Dimitrios Michos Grigorios Polychronidis Maria Stavropoulou	Pairs BC3	Thailand (THA) L 2-5	Portugal (POR) L 2-5	New Zealand (NZL) D 2-2	4	did not advance

Cycling

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ioannis Kalaitzakis	Men's time trial LC1	41:13.72	16
Ioannis Kalaitzakis	Men's road race LC1/LC2/CPA	2:02.21	29
Stamatios Kotzias	Mixed time trial CP1/CP2	27:02.61	10
Stamatios Kotzias	Mixed road race CP1/CP2	50.09	6

Track

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ioannis Kalaitzakis	Individual pursuit (LC 1)	5:20.026	15			did not advance
Ioannis Kalaitzakis	1 km time trial (LC 1)					1:16.450	12

Judo

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Bronze	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Theoklitos Papachristos	+100 kg		Papp (HUN) L 0001-1001	did not advance		Parasyuk (RUS) L 0000-0001	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Bronze	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Maria Keramida	-57 kg		Karkar (ALG) L 0000-0010	did not advance		Cete (TUR) W 1000-0010	Merenciano (ESP) L 0002-0010	Did not advance	5

Powerlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Total lifted	Rank
Nikolaos Gkountanis	-75 kg	190.0 kg	7
Pavlos Mamalos	-82.50 kg	225.0 kg
Gkremislav Moysiadis	-67.50 kg	187.5 kg	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Total lifted	Rank
Anastasia Kazantzidou	-67.50 kg	87.5 kg	7

Sailing

Athlete	Event	Race											Score	Rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Score	Rank
Georgios Delikouras	1P keelboat (2.4MR)	15	13	9	3	13	14	7	14	12	8		79	13
Vasileios Christoforou Theodoros Alexas Nikolaos Paterakis	3P keelboat (Sonar)	2	5	7	5	8	2	4	9	2	6	8	41	7

Shooting

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Panagiotis Giannoukaris	Mixed R5-10M air rifle prone SH2	597	16	did not advance
Evangelos Kakosaios	Mixed R5-10M air rifle prone SH2	597	14	did not advance
Eleni Zampoura	Women's P2-10M air pistol SH1	360	9	did not advance

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Events	Heat		Final
Athlete	Events	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Konstantinos Fykas	S8 100 m freestyle	1:00.96	6 Q	1:01.40	7
Konstantinos Fykas	S8 50 m freestyle	DSQ		did not advance
Georgios Kapellakis	S2 200 m freestyle	5:12.99	2 Q	5:05.91
	S2 100 m freestyle	2:31.97	3 Q	2:23.63
	S2 50 m freestyle	1:11.02	3 Q	1:04.85
Konstantinos Karaouzas	SB3 100 m breaststroke	56.71	6 Q	54.47	4
Ioannis Kostakis	S3 100 m freestyle	1:52.89	3 Q	1:45.72	4
	S3 200 m freestyle			3:38.42	4
	S3 50 m freestyle	49.87	2 Q	49.84	5
Charalampos Taiganidis	S13 100 m butterfly	1:00.52	2 Q	59.20
	S13 400 m freestyle	4:31.17	6 Q	4:23.59
	S13 100 m freestyle	54.96	2 Q	53.37
	SM13 200 m individual medley	2:24.19	7 Q	2:16.95
	S13 100 m backstroke	1:03.02	1 Q	59.85
Christos Tampaxis	S2 100 m freestyle	2:53.19	10	did not advance
Christos Tampaxis	S2 50 m freestyle	1:20.84	9	did not advance
Vasileios Tsagkaris	SB3 100 m breaststroke	56.04	5 Q	55.91	6
Stylianos Tsakonas	S4 100 m freestyle	1:40.63	9	did not advance
	S4 50 m backstroke	51.04	6 Q	51.15	6
	S4 200 m freestyle	3:43.87	8 Q	3:40.20	8
	SM4 150 m individual medley	3:00.27	7 Q	2:57.99	7
Nikolaos Tsotras	S7 100 m freestyle	1:10.07	9	did not advance
	S7 100 m backstroke	1:21.52	10	did not advance
	S7 50 m freestyle	31.41	7 Q	31.01	5
Ioannis Kostakis Stylianos Tsakonas Konstantinos Karaouzas Nikolaos Tsotras	20 pts 4x50 m freestyle			2:57.98	4

Women

Athlete	Events	Heat		Final
Athlete	Events	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Maria Kalpakidou	S3 50 m freestyle	1:25.39	12	did not advance
Maria Liaskou	S3 50 m freestyle	1:29.31	14	did not advance

Tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Georgios Lazaridis	Singles - Open	Majdi (FRA) L 0-6 0-6	did not advance

Wheelchair fencing

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary Round		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Pylarinos Markantonatos	Épée A	Alhaddad (KUW) L 3-5 Serafini (ITA) W 5-2 Saengsawang (THA) W 5-1 Sanchez (ESP) W 5-3 Davydenko (UKR) L 4-5 Maillard (FRA) W 5-4	2 Q	Betti (ITA) L 12-15	did not advance
Emmanouil Bogdos	Épée B	Alsaedi (KUW) W 5-4 Latreche (FRA) L 3-5 Williams (USA) L 4-5 Poleshchuk (RUS) W 5-2 Komar (UKR) L 2-5	5 Q	Bezyazynchny (BLR) L 7-15	did not advance

References

↑ Ξεκινούν οι Αγώνες των δυνατών (in Greek). www.sport-fm.gr. 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2008-09-07.

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[1] Ξεκινούν οι Αγώνες των δυνατών (in Greek). www.sport-fm.gr. 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2008-09-07.

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