| Greece at the Deaflympics | |
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| IPC code | GRE |
| NPC | Hellenic Athletic Federation of the Deaf |
| Website | www |
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Greece competed at the Deaflympics for the first time in 1957. Greece won its first Deaflympics medal in 1993. [1] Greece has never competed at the Winter Deaflympics.
| Games | Men | Women | Total Athletes |
| Milan 1957 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Washington DC 1965 | 17 | 0 | 17 |
| Belgrade 1969 | 28 | 0 | 28 |
| Cologne 1981 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Sofia 1993 | 36 | 0 | 36 |
| Copenhagen 1997 | 34 | 2 | 36 |
| Rome 2001 | 47 | 19 | 66 |
| Melbourne 2005 | 46 | 18 | 64 |
| Taipei 2009 | 26 | 23 | 49 |
| Sofia 2013 | 58 | 38 | 96 |
| Samsun 2017 | 31 | 23 | 54 |
| Caxias do Sul 2021-22 | 43 | 16 | 59 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1969 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 [4] |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 [5] |
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