Greece was the host nation of the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens. The number of Greek contestants is commonly cited as 169, but as many as 176 GreeksThe names of 103 competitors are known. Up to 7 unknown swimmers, 22 unknown shooters, and 44 unknown gymnasts competed for a total of 176. Most historians reduce the number of swimmers to 6 unknowns, saying that two of the entries were by the same swimmer, as well as noting that the 104 known competitors include three gymnasts who probably were among the 44 unnamed competitors in the team event. These two changes reduce the total competitors to 172. A comparison of Mallon's tables of multiple-event athletes indicates that he believes 3 of the unknown gymnasts also competed in other sports, reducing the number further to 169, which is the number he uses for Greece, Smyrna and Cyprus. contested events in all nine sports. The Greeks were by far the most successful nation in terms of total medals with 47, 27 more than the United States of America. Nevertheless, their number of first-place finishes (10) was one fewer than the Americans' 11. The Greeks had 172 entries in 39 events. Only 4 events had no Greek entrants—the 400 metres and the high jump in athletics and the vault and the team horizontal bar in gymnastics.
Medalists
The following competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded. MedalNameSportEventDate Athletics Men's marathon Cycling Men's road race Fencing Men's masters foil Fencing Men's sabre Gymnastics Men's rings Gymnastics Men's rope climbing Shooting Men's 200 m military rifle Shooting Men's 300 m free rifle, three positions Shooting Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol Swimming Men's sailors 100 m freestyle Athletics Men's marathon Athletics Men's shot put Athletics Men's discus throw Cycling Men's sprint Cycling Men's time trial Cycling Men's 100 km Fencing Men's sabre Spyridon AthanasopoulosPetros PersakisThomas Xenakis Gymnastics Men's team parallel bars Gymnastics Men's rope climbing Shooting Men's 200 m military rifle Shooting Men's 300 m free rifle, three positions Shooting Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol Swimming Men's 500 m freestyle Swimming Men's 1200 m freestyle Swimming Men's sailors 100 m freestyle Tennis Men's singles Demetrios Petrokokkinos Tennis Men's doubles Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman Athletics Men's 800 m Athletics Men's pole vault Athletics Men's pole vault Athletics Men's triple jump Athletics Men's shot put Athletics Men's discus throw Fencing Men's foil Fencing Men's foil Filippos KarvelasDimitrios LoundrasIoannis Mitropoulos Gymnastics Men's team parallel bars Gymnastics Men's rings Shooting Men's 200 m military rifle Shooting Men's 25 m military pistol Shooting Men's 30 m free pistol Swimming Men's 500 m freestyle Swimming Men's sailors 100 m freestyle Tennis Men's singles Weightlifting Men's one hand lift Weightlifting Men's two hand lift Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman
Medals by sportSportTotalShooting3339Gymnastics2226Fencing2126Athletics13610Swimming1326Cycling1304Tennis0213Wrestling0112Weightlifting0022Total10181947
Multiple medalists The following competitors won multiple medals at the 1896 Olympic Games. Name Medal Sport Event Shooting Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistolMen's 300 metre free rifleMen's 30 metre pistol Gymnastics Men's rope climbingMen's team parallel bars Shooting Men's 300 metre free rifleMen's 25 metre rapid fire pistol Gymnastics Men's ringsMen's team parallel bars Tennis Men's singlesMen's doubles Cycling Men's sprintMen's track time trial Gymnastics Men's team parallel barsMen's rope climbing Gymnastics Men's team parallel barsMen's rings AthleticsWeightlifting Men's discus throwMen's two hand lift
Competitors
| width=78% align=left valign=top | The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. SportMenWomenTotalAthletics 29 0 29Cycling 8 0 8Fencing 9 0 9Gymnastics 56 0 56Shooting 48 0 48Swimming 16 0 16Tennis 7 0 7Weightlifting 3 0 3Wrestling 2 0 2 Total 178 0 178
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Medals by dayDayDate Total16 April012327 April115738 April010149 April33410510 April2259611 April393 15712 April2103813 April0000Total10181947
Athletics
The Greeks entered every event on the athletics program save the 400 metres and the high jump. They took 1 gold, 3 silver, and 6 bronze medals in the sport. It was initially thought that the Greek team had swept the top three places of the marathon event, until it was discovered that Spiridon Belokas had covered part of the distance by cart and was disqualified.
Track & road events AthleteEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankAlexandros Chalkokondylis100 m12.82 Q12.65Georgios GennimatasUnknown4-5Did not advanceKonstantinos MouratisDid not advanceKonstantinos Mouratis400 mDid not advanceAngelos Fetsis800 mUnknown4Did not advanceDimitrios Golemis2:16.82 Q2:28.0Dimitrios TombrofUnknown5Did not advanceAngelos Fetsis1500 mcolspan=2 Unknown5Dimitrios Golemiscolspan=2 Unknown6Konstantinos Karakatsaniscolspan=2 Unknown7-8Dimitrios Tombrofcolspan=2 Unknown7-8Anastasios Andreou110 m hurdlesUnknown4Did not advanceKonstantinos MouratisDid not advenceAthanasios SkaltsogiannisUnknown3-4Did not advanceSpyridon BelokasMarathoncolspan=2 Dimitrios Deligianniscolspan=2 Evangelos Gerakeriscolspan=2 Unknown7Georgios Grigorioucolspan=2 Ilias Kafetziscolspan=2 Sokratis Lagoudakiscolspan=2 Unknown9Ioannis Lavrentiscolspan=2 Spyridon Louiscolspan=2 2:58:50 ORStamatios Masouriscolspan=2 Unknown8Eleftherios Papasymeoncolspan=2 Unknown5Charilaos Vasilakoscolspan=2 3:06:03 Ioannis Vrettoscolspan=2 Unknown4
Field events AthleteEventFinalDistancePositionEvangelos DamaskosMen's pole vault2.60Ioannis Theodoropoulos2.60Vasilios Xydas2.405Alexandros ChalkokondylisMen's long jump5.744Athanasios SkaltsogiannisUnknown5-9Konstantinos MouratisIoannis PersakisMen's triple jump12.52Christos ZoumisUnknown6-7Miltiadis GouskosMen's shot put11.20Georgios Papasideris10.36Georgios PapasiderisMen's discus throwUnknown5-9Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos28.95Sotirios Versis27.28
Cycling
Greece had entries in all six cycling events, winning one and taking second place in three more.
Track
AthleteEventTime / DistanceRankStamatios NikolopoulosMen's time trial25.4Stamatios NikolopoulosMen's sprint5:00.2Georgios Koletis10 kmAristidis KonstantinidisUnknownGeorgios Aspiotis100 kmGeorgios KoletisUnknownAristidis KonstantinidisNikos Loverdos12 hour raceKonstantinos KonstantinouGeorgios ParaskevopoulosA. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris
Road
AthleteEventTimeRankGeorgios AspiotisMen's road raceUnknown4-7Miltiades IatrouUnknown4-7Aristidis Konstantinidis3:22:31Konstantinos KonstantinouUnknown4-7Georgios ParaskevopoulosUnknown4-7
Fencing
Greek fencers won the top two places in the sabre competition, third place in the amateur foil competition, and in a major upset, Pyrgos defeated Joanni Perronet in the sole match of the masters foil event.
AthleteEventRound 1FinalRankOpposition ScoreRankGeorgios ValakakisMen's foil034Did not advance7Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos123Did not advance6Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis212Did not advanceIoannis Poulos034Did not advance8Athanasios Vouros212Did not advanceLeonidas PyrgosMen's masters foilcolspan=3 W 3–1Ioannis GeorgiadisMen's sabre401Georgios Iatridis0455Tilemachos Karakalos312
Gymnastics
The names of the members of the two teams that competed in the team events are, for the most part, unknown. The vault and the team horizontal bar were two of the four events (the other two in the athletics program) that had no Greek entrants. The Greeks took two of each color medal, with two medals in each of the rope climbing (gold and silver), rings (gold and bronze), and team parallel bars (silver and bronze) competitions.
Team AthleteEventResultRankNikolaos AndriakopoulosSpyridon AthanasopoulosPetros PersakisThomas Xenakis29 others, names unknownMen's team parallel bars UnknownIoannis ChrysafisIoannis MitropoulosDimitrios LoundrasFilippos Karvelas15 others, names unknown Unknown
Individual AthleteEventResultRankAristovoulos PetmezasMen's pommel horse Unknown3-15Ioannis MitropoulosMen's rings UnknownPetros Persakis UnknownAntonios PapaioannouMen's horizontal bar Unknown3-15Leonidas Tsiklitiras Unknown3-15Filippos KarvelasMen's parallel bars Unknown3-18Ioannis Mitropoulos Unknown3-18Antonios Papaioannou Unknown3-18Nikolaos AndriakopoulosMen's rope climbing14.0Thomas Xenakis14.0
Shooting
Greek shooters dominated the two rifle events and the rapid fire pistol competition, but were largely unable to compete with the Paine brothers of the United States in the pistol events that the two brothers entered.
AthleteEventFinalScoreRankGeorgios DiamantisMen's 200 m military rifle14567Alexios Fetsios89411G. KaragiannopoulosUnknown14-41Pantelis Karasevdas2350Anastasios Metaxas17014Georgios Orphanidis16985Panagiotis Pavlidis1978Aristovoulos PetmezasUnknown14-41Spiridon Stais84512Ioannis Theofilakis12619Nikolaos Trikoupis171322 others, names unknownUnknown14-41AntelothanasisMen's 300 m free rifleUnknown6-18Georgios DiamantisUnknown6-18Alexios FetsiosUnknown6-18Ioannis Frangoudis1312HatzidakisUnknown6-18KarakatsanisUnknown6-18Pantelis Karasevdas10395Leon LangakisNikolaos LevidisUnknown6-18Anastasios Metaxas11024Xenon MikhailidisUnknown6-18MoustakopoulosUnknown6-18Georgios Orphanidis1583Panagiotis PavlidisUnknown6-18Alexandros TheofilakisUnknown6-18Ioannis TheofilakisUnknown6-18Nikolaos TrikoupisUnknown6-18Ioannis VourakisPantelis KarasevdasMen's 25 m military pistolXenon MikhailidisUnknown6-13Nikolaos Morakis205Georgios OrphanidisUnknown6-13PantazidisUnknown6-13PatsourisUnknown6-13Panagiotis PavlidisUnknown6-13Aristovoulos PetmezasUnknown6-13Ioannis FrangoudisUnknown4PlatisUnknown6-13SanidisVavisUnknown6-13Ioannis FrangoudisMen's 25 m rapid fire pistol344Georgios Orphanidis249Ioannis FrangoudisMen's 30 m pistolUnknownNikolaos MorakisUnknown4Georgios OrphanidisUnknown5
Swimming
Some of the Greek swimmers' names were not recorded. Greece's only swimming gold medal came in an event in which only Greek swimmers were allowed to compete, as did a silver and a bronze. In the three open events, the Greeks took two silvers and one bronze, all in the two longer races.
AthleteEventFinalTimeRankGeorgios Anninos100 m freestyleUnknown3-10Efstathios ChorafasUnknown3-10Alexandros ChrysafosUnknown3-10Ag. DiamantopoulosI. DontisDimitris FrangopoulosGeorgios GaitanosG. K. KaragiannisNikolaos KatravasV. KhatzisTheod. KontosP. F. KoukoudakisGeorgios LamprakisSav. LaskaridisMerk. LeriasV. MangourakisI. MarkouG. MarnezosPanagiotis NastosGeorgios PetrouFill. PothitosEmm. ValetsiotisIr. VlachosSol. XenopoulosFour others, names unknownUnknown3-10Efstathios Chorafas500 m freestyleUnknownDimitrios ChristopoulosAg. DiamantopoulosI. DontisDimitris FrangopoulosGeorgios GaitanosI. GeorgiadisA. GrigoriadisNikolaos KatravasV. KhatzisTheod. KontosNik. KourakosK. KourkoulasSav. LaskaridisMerk. LeriasV. MangourakisI. MarkouG. MarnezosG. MazoukasP. MikhalopoulosPanagiotis NastosAntonios Pepanos9:57.6Fill. PothitosK. SalourosD. SantanisN. StournarasSol. XenopoulosA. ZanosIoannis Andreou1200 m freestyle21:03.4G. AthanasiouEfstathios ChorafasAg. DiamantopoulosI. DontisDimitris FrangopoulosNikolaos KatravasUnknown3-8V. KhatzisTheod. KontosNik. KourakosP. F. KoukoudakisSav. LaskaridisMerk. LeriasPanagiotis NastosAntonios PepanosA. RomantzasEmm. ValetsiotisSol. XenopoulosThree others, names unknownUnknown3-8Spyridon ChazapisSailors 100 m freestyleUnknownDimitrios DrivasUnknownNik. KourakosK. KourkoulasIoannis Malokinis2:20.4P. MikhalopoulosK. SalourosD. SantanisN. Stournaras
Tennis
Greece earned a silver medal and a bronze medal in the singles tournament. Kasdaglis and Petrokokkinos won a silver medal in doubles tournament.