Greece at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Greece at the
2012 Summer Olympics
Greece at the; 2012 Summer Olympics
IOC code	GRE
NOC	Hellenic Olympic Committee
Website	www.hoc.gr (in Greek and English)
in London
Competitors	103 in 19 sports
Flag bearers	Alexandros Nikolaidis (opening); Spyridon Gianniotis (closing)
Medals ; Ranked 75th	Gold0Silver0Bronze2Total2
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Last updated February 23, 2023

Greece competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The Hellenic Olympic Committee sent a total of 103 athletes to the Games in London, 65 men and 38 women, to compete in 19 sports. Men's water polo was the only team event in which Greece was represented at these Olympic Games.

Greece failed to win a gold or a silver medal for the first time since 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Only two bronze medals were awarded to the team: one in judo, by Ilias Iliadis, an Olympic gold medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and the other in rowing, by Alexandra Tsiavou (sixth in Beijing), and Christina Giazitzidou.

Several athletes missed out of the medal standings in the finals, including swimmer Spyridon Gianniotis (fourth in the open water marathon), the Men's coxle four team (finished in the fourth place), Vassiliki Vougiouka (missed out the semi-finals in fencing), sailor Byron Kokkalanis, (sixth in men's windsurfing) and gymnast Vasileios Tsolakidis (sixth in men's parallel bars).

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Ilias Iliadis	Judo	Men's 90 kg	1 August
Bronze	Christina Giazitzidou Alexandra Tsiavou	Rowing	Women's lightweight double sculls	4 August

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Judo	0	0	1	1
Rowing	0	0	1	1
Total	0	0	2	2

Archery

Greece qualified one archer.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Evangelia Psarra	Women's individual	636	43	Devi (IND) (22) L 4–6	did not advance

Athletics

Greek athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):^[1]^[2]

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Konstadinos Douvalidis	110 m hurdles	13.40	2 Q	13.77	7	Did not advance
Periklis Iakovakis	400 m hurdles	50.27	5	Did not advance
Alexandros Papamichail	20 km walk	—				1:21:12 NR	15
Alexandros Papamichail	50 km walk	—				3:49:56 NR	25
Konstantinos Poulios	Marathon	—				2:33:17	80
Lykourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	200 m	20.56	4 q	20.52=PB	5	Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Konstadinos Baniotis	High jump	2.21	25	Did not advance
Konstadinos Filippidis	Pole vault	5.60	3 q	5.65	6
Spyridon Lebesis	Javelin throw	82.40	5 Q	81.91	7
Alexandros Papadimitriou	Hammer throw	67.19	37	Did not advance
Michalis Stamatogiannis	Shot put	19.24	25	Did not advance
Louis Tsatoumas	Long jump	7.53	29	Did not advance

Women
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
María Belibasáki	100 m	Bye		11.63	6	Did not advance
María Belibasáki	200 m	23.36	4	—		Did not advance
Eléni Filándra	800 m	2:02.29	3 Q	—		2:04.42	8	Did not advance
Konstadina Kefala	Marathon	—						3:01.18	104
Déspina Zapounídou	20 km walk	—						1.35.19	44

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou	Pole vault	4.25	19	Did not advance
Stélla-Iró Ledáki	Pole vault	4.50 =PB	13	Did not advance
Savva Lika	Javelin throw	57.06	27	Did not advance
Niki Paneta	Triple jump	13.66	24	Did not advance
Athanasia Perra	Triple jump	11.93	33	Did not advance
Katerina Stefanidi	Pole vault	4.25	24	Did not advance
Antonia Stergiou	High jump	1.93 SB	13	Did not advance

Combined events – Heptathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	HJ	SP	200 m	LJ	JT	800 m	Final	Rank
Sofia Ifantidou	Result	13.82	1.68	12.96	25.91	5.81	56.96 OR	2:22.03	5947	24
Sofia Ifantidou	Points	1004	830	725	805	792	995	796	5947	24

Canoeing

Slalom

Greece has qualified boats for the following events

Athlete	Event	Preliminary						Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Rank	Run 2	Rank	Best	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christos Tsakmakis	Men's C-1	165.79	17	105.22	13	105.22	15	Did not advance

Cycling

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ioannis Tamouridis	Men's road race	5:58:24	110

Track

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Zafeiris Volikakis	Men's sprint	10.663 67.523	17	Baugé (FRA) DSQ	Did not advance

Keirin

Athlete	Event	1st Round	Repechage	2nd Round	Final
Athlete	Event	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
Christos Volikakis	Men's keirin	6 R	1 Q	6	9

Mountain biking

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Periklis Ilias	Men's cross-country	1:38:51	33

Diving

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Stefanos Paparounas	Men's 3 m springboard	366.10	26	Did not advance

Fencing

Greece qualified 1 fencer.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Vassiliki Vougiouka	Women's sabre	Bond-Williams (GBR) W 15–8	Socha (POL) W 15–7	Kim J-Y (KOR) L 12–15	Did not advance

Gymnastics

Artistic

Greece qualified three athletes.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Vlasios Maras	Parallel bars	—				13.400	—	13.400	64	Did not advance
Vlasios Maras	Horizontal bar	—					14.300	14.300	35	Did not advance
Vasileios Tsolakidis	Parallel bars	—				15.466	—	15.466	7 Q	—				15.300	—	15.300	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		F	V	UB	BB	Total	Rank	F	V	UB	BB	Total	Rank
Vasiliki Millousi	All-around	12.933	12.800	13.425	14.366	53.524	34	Did not advance

Rhythmic

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
Athlete	Event	5 balls	3 ribbons 2 hoops	Total	Rank	5 balls	3 ribbons 2 hoops	Total	Rank
Eleni Doika Alexia Kyriazi Evdokia Loukagou Stavroula Samara Vasileia Zachou Marianthi Zafeiriou	Team	25.875	26.000	51.875	9	Did not advance

Judo

Greece qualified 2 judokas.

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ilias Iliadis	Men's −90 kg	Randl (SVK) W 0111–0002	Bauža (LTU) W 0100–0003	Denisov (RUS) L 0000–0020	Did not advance	Anthony (AUS) W 1000–0000	Camilo (BRA) W 0011–0002
Ioulieta Boukouvala	Women's −57 kg	Lupetey (CUB) L 0001–0011	Did not advance

Rowing

Greece qualified the following boats.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Apostolos Gkountoulas Nikolaos Gkountoulas	Pair	6:21.46	3 SA/B	Bye		7:07.15	5 FB	6:53.69	9
Eleftherios Konsolas Panagiotis Magdanis	Lightweight double sculls	6:42.13	5 R	6:31.13	1 SA/B	6:40.89	4 FB	6:31.71	8
Ioannis Christou Stergios Papachristos Ioannis Tsilis Georgios Tziallas	Four	5:57.71	3 SA/B	Bye		6:02.61	2 FA	6:11.43	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christina Giazitzidou Alexandra Tsiavou	Lightweight double sculls	7:03.66	1 SA/B	Bye		7:09.01	2 FA	7:12.09

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Greece qualified 1 boat for each of the following events

Men

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*	Net points	Final rank
Byron Kokkalanis	RS:X	4	11	6	2	16	15	3	11	4	9	12	77	6
Evangelos Cheimonas	Laser	13	19	21	41	50 DSQ	33	15	30	15	19	EL	206	26
Ioannis Mitakis	Finn	4	21	10	8	25 OCS	10	20	19	7	9	EL	108	14
Panagiotis Kampouridis Efstathios Papadopoulos	470	14	7	20	15	18	28 DSQ	27	19	8	20	EL	148	19
Aimilios Papathanasiou Antonis Tsotras	Star	3	16	7	12	7	15	17 BFD	17 DSQ	17 OCS	12	EL	106	14

Women

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*	Net points	Final rank
Angeliki Skarlatou	RS:X	14	12	21	11	19	16	19	27 OCS	15	7	EL	134	16
Anna Agrafioti	Laser Radial	28	29	30	32	34	34	15	34	23	32	EL	257	33

Open

Athlete	Event	Race																Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	M*	Net points	Final rank
Dionisios Dimou Michail Pateniotis	49er	18	20	19	16	19	20	19	17	20	19	18	16	16	20	5	EL	242	20

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Greece qualified for three quota places in shooting;^[3]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Nikolaos Mavrommatis	Men's skeet	119	9	Did not advance
Efthimios Mitas	Men's skeet	114	25	Did not advance
Athina Douka	Women's 10 m air pistol	369	42	Did not advance

Swimming

Greek swimmers achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[4]^[5]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stefanos Dimitriadis	100 m butterfly	54.20	40	Did not advance
Stefanos Dimitriadis	200 m butterfly	1:58.79	23	Did not advance
Ioannis Drymonakos	200 m butterfly	1:56.97	16 Q	1:58.05	15	Did not advance
Ioannis Drymonakos	400 m individual medley	4:17.04	17	—		Did not advance
Kristian Golomeev	100 m freestyle	50.08	31	Did not advance
Spyridon Gianniotis	10 km open water	—				1:50:05.3	4
Aristeidis Grigoriadis	100 m backstroke	54.52	17 Q	54.20	14	Did not advance
Ioannis Kalargaris	50 m freestyle	22.80	30	Did not advance
Panagiotis Samilidis	100 m breaststroke	1:01.20	22	Did not advance
Panagiotis Samilidis	200 m breaststroke	2:14.82	27	Did not advance
Andreas Vazaios	200 m individual medley	2:01.23	26	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Theodora Drakou	50 m freestyle	25.13	13 Q	25.28	16	Did not advance
Marianna Lymperta	10 km open water	—				2:04:26.5	22
Nery Mantey Niangkouara	50 m freestyle	25.40	21	Did not advance
Nery Mantey Niangkouara	100 m freestyle	56.63	32	Did not advance
Kristel Vourna	100 m butterfly	58.74	16 Q	58.31 NR	12	Did not advance
Theodora Drakou Theodora Giareni Martha Matsa Nery Mantey Niangkouara Kristel Vourna	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:45.55	16	—		Did not advance

Synchronized swimming

Greece qualified 2 quota places in synchronized swimming.

Athlete	Event	Technical routine		Free routine (preliminary)			Free routine (final)
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank	Points	Total (technical + free)	Rank
Evangelia Platanioti Despoina Solomou	Duet	89.200	8	88.840	178.040	8 Q	89.360	178.560	8

Table tennis

Greece qualified two athletes for singles table tennis events. Based on their world rankings as of 16 May 2011 Kalinikos Kreanga and Panagiotis Gionis qualified for the men's event.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Panagiotis Gionis	Men's singles	Bye		Assar (EGY) W 4–0	Kishikawa (JPN) L 3–4	Did not advance
Kalinikos Kreanga	Men's singles	Bye		Saive (BEL) W 4–1	Maze (DEN) L 1–4	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Alexandros Nikolaidis had ensured a quota place for Greece in the men's +80 kg by reaching the top 3 of the 2011 WTF World Qualification Tournament.^[7]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Bronze medal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Alexandros Nikolaidis	Men's +80 kg	Tanrıkulu (TUR) L 3–7	Did not advance

Volleyball

Beach

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Standing	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Maria Tsiartsiani Vassiliki Arvaniti	Women's	Pool B Kuhn – Zumkehr (SUI) L 0 – 2 (13–21, 19–21) Vasina – Vozakova (RUS) W 2 – 1 (18–21, 21–13, 15–12) Xue – Zhang (CHN) L 0 – 2 (17–21, 16–21)	4	Did not advance				19

Water polo

Greece has qualified a men's team.

Men's tournament

Team roster

The following is the Greek roster in the men's water polo tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[8]

№	Name	Pos.	Height	Weight	Date of birth	2012 club
1	Nikolaos Deligiannis	GK	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	3 September 1976	Olympiacos
2	Emmanouil Mylonakis	D	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	9 April 1985	NO Vouliagmeni
3	Andreas Miralis	D	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	89 kg (196 lb)	21 September 1987	NO Patras
4	Konstantinos Kokkinakis	CB	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)	107 kg (236 lb)	9 October 1975	Panathinaikos
5	Theodoros Chatzitheodorou	D	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	1 October 1976	NC Chios
6	Argyris Theodoropoulos	D	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	13 January 1981	NC Chios
7	Christos Afroudakis	D	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	23 May 1984	NO Vouliagmeni
8	Evangelos Delakas	CB	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	8 February 1985	Olympiacos
9	Georgios Afroudakis	CF	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)	103 kg (227 lb)	17 October 1976	Panathinaikos
10	Ioannis Fountoulis	D	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	25 May 1988	Olympiacos
11	Konstantinos Mourikis	CF	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	115 kg (254 lb)	11 July 1988	Olympiacos
12	Manthos Voulgarakis	CF	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	104 kg (229 lb)	14 March 1980	NO Vouliagmeni
13	Filippos Karampetsos	GK	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	22 October 1974	NC Chios

Head coach: Dragan Andrić

Group play

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Croatia	5	5	0	0	50	29	+21	10	Quarterfinals
Italy	5	3	1	1	40	36	+4	7
Spain	5	3	0	2	52	42	+10	6
Australia	5	2	0	3	40	44	−4	4
Greece	5	1	1	3	41	43	−2	3
Kazakhstan	5	0	0	5	24	53	−29	0

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

29 July 2012 10:00	Report	Greece	6–8	Croatia	Water Polo Arena, London Referees: Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU), György Juhász (HUN)
		Score by quarters:2–1, 1–2, 2–2, 1–3
		Fountoulis, Mourikis 2	Goals	three players 2

31 July 2012 15:30	Report	Greece	7–7	Italy	Water Polo Arena, London Referees: Marijo Brguljan (MNE), Mihajlo Ćirić (SRB)
		Score by quarters:2–1, 1–2, 2–3, 2–1
		Fountoulis, Afroudakis 2	Goals	Presciutti 2

2 August 2012 11:20	Report	Kazakhstan	4–11	Greece	Water Polo Arena, London Referees: Ulrich Spiegel (GER), Brian Littlejohn (GBR)
		Score by quarters: 1–2, 0–4, 1–3, 2–2
		Ukumanov 2	Goals	Fountoulis 5

4 August 2012 14:10	Report	Greece	9–11	Spain	Water Polo Arena, London Referees: Marijo Brguljan (MNE), Adrian Alexandrescu (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 2–4, 2–1, 2–2
		Delakas 3	Goals	three players 3

6 August 2012 11:20	Report	Greece	8–13	Australia	Water Polo Arena, London Referees: Mihajlo Ćirić (SRB), Sergi Sanchez (ESP)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 3–5, 1–3, 2–2
		Chatzitheodorou 3	Goals	Howden 3

Weightlifting

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
David Kavelasvili	Men's −94 kg	170	11	200	13	370	13

Wrestling

Greece qualified in the following events.

Key:

VT - Victory by Fall.
PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Olegk Motsalin	−74 kg	Bye	Tigiev (UZB) L 0–3 ^PO	Did not advance					11

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Maria Prevolaraki	−55 kg	Bye	Ratkevich (AZE) L 0–3 ^PO	Did not advance					15

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Cuba competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's nineteenth appearance in the Olympics. With baseball's removal from the Olympic program and the absence of the nation's volleyball team for the first time, the Cuban Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1964. A total of 111 athletes, 66 men and 45 women, competed in 13 sports. There was only a single competitor in archery and table tennis.

Thailand competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Olympics, except the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of its partial support to the United States boycott.

Chinese Taipei competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. "Chinese Taipei" was the designated name used by Taiwan to participate in some international organizations and almost all sporting events, including the Olympic Games. Neither the common name "Taiwan" nor the official name "Republic of China" would be used due primarily to opposition from the People's Republic of China. This was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Olympics.

Nigeria competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Olympics. Nigeria missed the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal because of the African boycott. The Nigerian Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1984. A total of 53 athletes, 30 men and 23 women, competed in 8 sports. Men's basketball was the only team-based sport in which Nigeria was represented at these Olympic Games. Among the eight sports played by the athletes, Nigeria marked its official Olympic debut in slalom canoeing.

Tunisia competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's thirteenth appearance at the Olympics, having missed the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of its partial support for the United States boycott.

References

↑ "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
↑ IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – London 2012 ENTRY STANDARDS (PDF), IAAF, archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2011, retrieved 4 June 2011
↑ "Quota places by Nation and Name". ISSF. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
↑ "Swimming World Rankings". FINA. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
↑ FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE NATATION – Swimming (PDF), FINA, archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011, retrieved 8 June 2011
↑ "Direct Qualifiers for 2012 London Olympic Games – Provisional list" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
↑ "Competition Results (Day 4 & final of World Olympic Taekwondo Qualification Tournament on July 3, 2011 in Baku, Azerbaij". World Taekwondo Federation . Retrieved 4 July 2011.
↑ "Greece team roster". london2012.com. 20 July 2012.

External links

Website of Greek Olympic Committee and Team Greece

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[1] "iaaf.org – Top Lists". IAAF. Retrieved 4 June 2011.

[2] IAAF Games of the XXX Olympiad – London 2012 ENTRY STANDARDS (PDF), IAAF, archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2011, retrieved 4 June 2011

[issf-3] "Quota places by Nation and Name". ISSF. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2011.

[4] "Swimming World Rankings". FINA. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2011.

[5] FÉDÉRATION INTERNATIONALE DE NATATION – Swimming (PDF), FINA, archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011, retrieved 8 June 2011

[6] "Direct Qualifiers for 2012 London Olympic Games – Provisional list" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.

[wtf-7] "Competition Results (Day 4 & final of World Olympic Taekwondo Qualification Tournament on July 3, 2011 in Baku, Azerbaij". World Taekwondo Federation . Retrieved 4 July 2011.

[8] "Greece team roster". london2012.com. 20 July 2012.

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