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Although Greece has had successful athletes at the Olympic Games, winning medals as early as the first ever Olympic Games, a Greek gymnast would not win a World Championships medal until Ioannis Melissanidis won silver on floor exercise at the 1994 World Championships. [1] As of 2024 only male artistic gymnastics have won World Championship medals for Greece. [2]
| Medal | Name | Year | Event |
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 Silver | Ioannis Melissanidis |  1994 Brisbane | Men's floor exercise |
 Bronze | Dimosthenis Tampakos |  1999 Tianjin | Men's rings |
 Gold | Vlasios Maras |  2001 Ghent | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Vlasios Maras |  2002 Debrecen | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Dimosthenis Tampakos |  2003 Anaheim | Men's rings |
| Bronze | Vlasios Maras |  2006 Aarhus | Men's horizontal bar |
| Gold | Eleftherios Kosmidis |  2010 Rotterdam | Men's floor exercise |
| Silver | Vasileios Tsolakidis |  2011 Tokyo | Men's parallel bars |
| Gold | Eleftherios Petrounias |  2015 Glasgow | Men's rings |
| Gold | Eleftherios Petrounias |  2017 Montreal | Men's rings |
| Gold | Eleftherios Petrounias |  2018 Doha | Men's rings |
| Silver | Eleftherios Petrounias | 2023 Antwerp | Men's rings |
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