Greece at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Greece at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	GRE
NPC	Hellenic Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.gr
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	60 in 12 sports
Flag bearers	Grigorios Polychronidis (Opening) Athanasios Konstantinidis (Closing)
Medals Ranked 24th	Gold 5 Silver 4 Bronze 4 Total 13
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Greece competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. ^[1] The first places the team qualified were for three athletes in sailing events.

Funding and support

Funding for Greece's national Paralympic committee comes through the Greek Ministry of Sports and the General Secretariat of Sports. While Greek Paralympians get some support from their national sport federations, many were also getting support from the Greek NPC. The economic situation in the country led to less funding from the government, which caused the Greeks rely more on sponsorship to serve a stop gap measure. One of the biggest sponsors was OPAP, Greece's national lottery. In a few cases, Greek athletes had to self-fund if they wanted to participate internationally as their NPC did not have the funds. In 2013, there was also a tremendous discrepancy in funding between Paralympic sport and Olympic sport, with the Olympic side getting €1,400,000 while the Paralympic side got €200,000. ^[2]

Disability classifications

Main article: Disability sport classification

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. ^{[3] [4]} Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability. ^[5]

Medalists

Further information: 2016 Summer Paralympics medal table

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Athanasios Konstantinidis Athletics Men's Shot Put F32 8 September  Gold Manolis Stefanoudakis Athletics Men's Javelin Throw F53/54 9 September  Gold Pavlos Mamalos Powerlifting Men's −107 kg 14 September  Gold Che Jon Fernandes Athletics Men's Shot Put F53 14 September  Gold Dimosthenis Michalentzakis Swimming Men's 100 m butterfly S9 15 September  Silver Dimitrios Senikidis Athletics Men's Shot Put F20 10 September  Silver Panagiotis Triantafyllou Wheelchair Fencing Men's Sabre B 12 September  Silver Athanasios Konstantinidis Athletics Men's Club Throw F31/32 13 September  Silver Grigorios Polychronidis Boccia Mixed Individual BC3 16 September  Bronze Dimitrios Zisidis Athletics Men's Shot Put F32 8 September  Bronze Dimitrios Bakochristos Powerlifting Men's −54 kg 9 September  Bronze Dimitra Korokida Athletics Women's Shot Put F53 12 September  Bronze Anna Ntenta Nikolaos Pananos Grigorios Polychronidis Boccia Mixed Pairs BC3 12 September Multiple medalists Name Sport Total Athanasios Konstantinidis Athletics 1 1 0 2 Grigorios Polychronidis Boccia 0 1 1 2

Medals by sport Sport Total Athletics 3 2 2 7 Powerlifting 1 0 1 2 Swimming 1 0 0 1 Boccia 0 1 1 2 Wheelchair Fencing 0 1 0 1 Total 5 4 4 13 Medals by day Day Date Total 1 8 September 1 0 1 2 2 9 September 1 0 1 2 3 10 September 0 1 0 1 5 12 September 0 1 2 3 6 13 September 0 1 0 1 7 14 September 2 0 0 2 8 15 September 1 0 0 1 9 16 September 0 1 0 1 Total 5 4 4 13 Medals by gender Gender Total Male 5 4 2 11 Female 0 0 1 1 Mixed 0 0 1 1 Total 5 4 4 13

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	0	1	1
Athletics	13	5	18
Boccia	3	2	5
Canoe Sprint	0	2	2
Cycling	1	2	3
Judo	1	0	1
Powerlifting	6	0	6
Sailing	3	0	3
Shooting	1	0	1
Swimming	12	4	16
Wheelchair Fencing	3	1	4
Wheelchair Tennis	1	0	1
Total	44	16	60

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Dorothea Poimenidou earned Greece a spot at the Rio Games following her performance at the 2015 World Archery Para Championships. She qualified the country after her performance in the women's recurve open. ^[6]

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Dorothea Poimenidou	Individual Recurve Open	605	7	Duboc  (FRA) L 4-6	Did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men

Track

Athlete	Event	Classification	Heat		Final
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christos Koutoulias	100m	T45/46/47	11.52	10	Did not advance
Michail Seitis		T43/44	11.30 PB	10	Did not advance
	200m	T43/44	22.45 PB	7 q	23.63	7
	400m	T43/44	49.81 WR	6 q	49.66 WR	6
Christos Koutoulias Ioannis Sevdikalis Konstantin Veltsi Michail Seitis	4 × 100 m relay	T42-47	—		47.79	5

Field

Athlete	Event	Classification	Final
			Distance	Position
Dimitrios Zisidis	Shot put	F32	9.24 PB
Nikolaos Gonios		F32	7.00	10
Athanasios Konstantinidis		F32	10.39 WR
Che Jon Fernandes		F53	8.44
Dimitrios Senikidis		F20	16.17
Efstratios Nikolaidis		F20	15.69	4
Athanasios Konstantinidis	Club Throw	F31/32	33.69
Dimitrios Zisidis		F31/32	22.24	6
Nikolaos Gonios		F31/32	27.26	5
Christos Kapellas	Long Jump	T43/44	6.40	7
Christos Koutoulias		T45/46/47	6.43	13
Evangelos Kanavos		T20	6.48	9
Konstantin Veltsi		T43/44	5.59	12
Michail Seitis		T43/44	6.20	9
Manolis Stefanoudakis	Javelin Throw	F53/54	29.45 PR

Women

Track

Athlete	Event	Classification	Heat		Final
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Styliani Smaragdi	100m	T45/46/47	13.70	11	Did not advance

Field

Athlete	Event	Classification	Final
			Distance	Position
Anthi Liagkou	Shot put	F33	4.69	5
Dimitra Korokida		F53	4.28
Valasia Kyrgiovanaki		F20	12.11	4
Zoi Mantoudi		F20	11.31	9
Styliani Smaragdi	Long Jump	T45/46/47	4.87	10

Boccia

Main article: Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Individual

Athlete	Event	Pool Matches				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Grigorios Polychronidis	Mixed Ιndividual BC3	McCowan  (GBR) W 9-1	Michel  (AUS) W 7-2	—	1 Q	Ho  (HKG) W 2-2 Tiebrake Win	Kim  (KOR) W 4-1	Jeong  (KOR) L 1-8
Anna Ntenta		Cilissen  (BEL) W 1-6	Ho  (HKG) L 6-1	—	2	Did not advance
Panagiotis Soulanis	Mixed Ιndividual BC1	Prado  (ESP) W 6-1	Ibarbure  (ARG) W 6-4	Leung Yee  (HKG) L 0-9	2 Q	Perez  (NED) L 0-13	Did not advance
Chrysi Morfi Metzou	Mixed Ιndividual BC4	Leung Wing  (HKG) L 2-13	Seo  (KOR) L 1-10	Vieira  (POR) L 1-6	4	Did not advance

Pairs and Teams

Athlete	Event	Pool matches				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Anna Ntenta Nikolaos Pananos Grigorios Polychronidis	Mixed Pairs BC3	Singapore  (SIN) L 2–3	Great Britain  (GBR) W 4–1	Portugal  (POR) W 5–2	2 Q	—	South Korea  (KOR) L 1–6	Singapore  (SIN) W 8–1

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Athanasios Barakas	Men's Road Race B	DNF
	Men's Road Time Trial B	45:38.46	21

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Adamantia Chalkiadaki	Women's Road Race B	2:02.52	6
	Women's Road Time Trial B	43:03.79	12
Paraskevi Kantza	Women's Road Race B	2:43.00	16
	Women's Road Time Trial B	50:36.79	17

Track

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Time/Opposition Result	Rank
Athanasios Barakas	Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit	5:03.979	16	Did not advance
	Men's B 1000m Time Trial	—		1:07.479	10

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Time/Opposition Result	Rank
Adamantia Chalkiadaki	Women's B 3000m Individual Pursuit	3:46.620	10	Did not advance
	Women's B 1000m Time Trial	—		1:13.431	10
Paraskevi Kantza	Women's B 3000m Individual Pursuit	4:14.308	14	Did not advance
	Women's B 1000m Time Trial	—		1:23.748	14

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Theoklitos Papachristos	−100 kg	Bolukbasi  (TUR) L 000–100	Did not advance

Paracanoeing

Main article: Paracanoeing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Canoe Sprint

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eleni Prelorentzou	KL1	1:53.367	10 SF	1:44.092	5	Did not advance

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Total lifted	Rank
Nikolaos Gkountanis	−65 kg	181	5
Pavlos Mamalos	−107 kg	238
Dimitrios Bakochristos	−54 kg	162
Paschalis Kouloumoglou	−59kg	145	5
Kostantinos Dimou	+107kg	220	4
Gkremislav Moysiadis	−80kg	165	8

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Race											Total points	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Theodoros Alexas Vasileios Christoforou Argyris Notaroglou	3-Person Keelboat (Sonar)	3	6	3	10	7	6	4	10	1	9	9	58	7

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Evangelos Kakosaios	Mixed R4 – 10 m Air Rifle Standing SH2	622.8	23	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Antonios Tsapatakis	50 m Freestyle S5	37.57	11	Did not advance
	50 m Butterfly S5	44.55	13	Did not advance
	100 m Breaststroke SB4	—		1:37.69	4
Aristeidis Makrodimitris	200 m Freestyle S2	5:03.56	6 Q	4:57.90	6
	50 m Backstroke S2	1:02.29	7 Q	1:03.46	7
	100 m Backstroke S2	2:19.25	7	2:22.45	8
Charalampos Taiganidis	50 m Freestyle S12	24.97	6 Q	24.99	6
	100 m Backstroke S12	1:03.70	6 Q	1:01.21	4
Christos Tampaxis	50 m Backstroke S1	—		1:22.30	4
	100 m Backstroke S1	—		2:54.23	4
Dimitrios Karypidis	50 m Backstroke S1	—		1:32.09	5
	100 m Backstroke S1	—		3:12.73	6
Dimosthenis Michalentzakis	50 m Freestyle S9	27.50	13	Did not advance
	100 m Butterfly S9	1:01.91	3 Q	59.27 PR
	200 m Medley SM9	2:26.15	10	Did not advance
Georgios Kapellakis	50 m Backstroke S2	1:14.47	11	Did not advance
	100 m Backstroke S2	2:45.85	9	Did not advance
Georgios Sfaltos	50 m Freestyle S6	32.65	11	Did not advance
	100 m Freestyle S6	1:12.15	11	Did not advance
	100 m Breaststroke SB5	1:40.17	6 Q	1:40.05 NR	6
Gerasimos Lignos	50 m Freestyle S13	27.09	18	Did not advance
	100 m Breaststroke SB13	1:14.25	7 Q	1:13.68	6
	100 m Backstroke S13	1:09.65	10	Did not advance
Ioannis Kostakis	50 m Freestyle S3	55.45	8 Q	53.95	7
	200 m Freestyle S3	—		4:01.46	7
	50 m Breaststroke SB2	DSQ		Did not advance
	50 m Backstroke S3	1:17.35	10	Did not advance
	150 m Medley SM3	DNS		Did not advance
Konstantinos Karaouzas	50 m Breaststroke SB3	54.37	9	Did not advance
Panagiotis Christakis	50 m Freestyle S6	31.94	9	Did not advance
	100 m Freestyle S6	1:14.05	13	Did not advance
	50 m Butterfly S6	35.46	11	Did not advance
	100 m Breaststroke SB6	1:37.98	11	Did not advance
	200 m Medley SM6	2:59.64	9	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Alexandra Stamatopoulou	100 m Freestyle S3	1:44.29	5 Q	1:47.16	6
	50 m Backstroke S3	58.47	5 Q	58.33	5
Chrysoula Antoniadou	200 m Freestyle S5	3:48.62	11	Did not advance
	100 m Breaststroke SB4	2:06.92	8 Q	2:06.24	7
Maria Kalpakidou	50 m Backstroke S2	—		1:24.45	5
	100 m Backstroke S2	—		3:00.72	5
Semicha Rizaoglou	50 m Freestyle S4	1:11.60	16	Did not advance
	100 m Freestyle S3	2:30.78	11	Did not advance
	50 m Backstroke S3	1:06.18	7 Q	1:12.05	8

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Georgios Sfaltos Panagiotis Christakis Alexandra Stamatopoulou Chrysoula Antoniadou	4 × 50 m Freestyle Relay 20Pts	2:43.43	5 Q	2:39.35	5

Wheelchair fencing

Main article: Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Pool matches		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Gerasimos Pylarinos Markantonatos	Sabre A	Lemoine  (FRA) L 1–5   Tian  (CHN) L 0–5   Chan  (HKG) L 2–5   Demchuk  (UKR) L 4–5   Cheong  (HKG) W 5–2	5	Did not advance
Vasileios Ntounis	Chen  (CHN) W 5–4   Tsedryk  (UKR) W 5–3   Pellegrini  (ITA) W 5–4   Noble  (FRA) W 5–2   Osvath  (HUN) W 5–2	1 Q	Chen  (CHN) W 15–12	Osvath  (HUN) L 12–15	Tian  (CHN) L 5–15	4
Panagiotis Triantafyllou	Sabre B	Castro  (POL) W 5–3   Mainville  (CAN) W 5-1   Cheema  (GER) W 5-4   Feng  (CHN) W 5-1	1 Q	Mainville  (CAN) W 15–6	Pluta  (POL) W 15–14	Datsko  (UKR) L 7–15
Gerasimos Pylarinos Markantonatos Panagiotis Triantafyllou Vasileios Ntounis	Team Épée	France  (FRA) L 22-45   Brazil  (BRA) W 45-32	2 Q	—	China  (CHN) L 33-45	Poland  (POL) L 29-45	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Pool matches		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kalliopi Loufaki	Épée B	Pozniak  (UKR) L 1-2   Demaude  (FRA) W 5-3   Makowska  (POL) L 0-5   Briese-Baetke  (GER) L 2-5   Yao  (CHN) L 2-5	5	Did not advance

Wheelchair tennis

Main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Stefanos Diamantis qualified for Rio in the men's singles event via a Bipartite Commission Invitation place. ^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Stefanos Diamantis	Men's singles	Jérémiasz  (FRA) L 2-0 (0–6, 3–6)	Did not advance

See also

• Greece at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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