Greece at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Greece at the Paralympic Games

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IPC code  GRE
NPC Hellenic Paralympic Comitee
At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing
Competitors 69 in 11 sports
Flag bearer Charalampos Taiganidis
Medals
Rank: 20		 Gold
5		 Silver
9		 Bronze
10		 Total
24
Paralympic history (summary)
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Winter Games
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Greece competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. The national team of Greece was composed of 69 athletes, 53 men and 16 women, who competed in 11 sports, archery, athletics, boccia, cycling, judo, powerlifting, sailing, shooting, swimming, wheelchair fencing, wheelchair tennis.[1] Contrary to the tradition in the Summer Olympic Games, Greece did not enter first during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony but 69th in name order in Chinese, with the swimmer Charalampos Taiganidis being the team's flag bearer.

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Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Taiganidis, CharalamposCharalampos Taiganidis Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle S13
 Gold Kapellakis, GeorgiosGeorgios Kapellakis Swimming Men's 50 m freestyle S2
 Gold Taiganidis, CharalamposCharalampos Taiganidis Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke S13
 Gold Stathelakos, PaschalisPaschalis Stathelakos Athletics Men's shot put F40
 Gold Tampaxis, ChristosChristos Tampaxis Swimming Men's 50 metre backstroke S1
 Silver Kapellakis, GeorgiosGeorgios Kapellakis Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle S2
 Silver Dimoglou, AlexandraAlexandra Dimoglou Athletics Women's 400 m T13
 Silver Karagianni, AnthiAnthi Karagianni Athletics Women's long jump F13
 Silver Polychronidis, GrigoriosGrigorios Polychronidis Boccia Mixed individual BC3
 Silver Taiganidis, CharalamposCharalampos Taiganidis Swimming Men's 100 m butterfly S13
 Silver Taiganidis, CharalamposCharalampos Taiganidis Swimming Men's 200 m individual medley SM13
 Silver Mamalos, PavlosPavlos Mamalos Powerlifting Men's 82.50 kg
 Silver Katsaros, AndreasAndreas Katsaros Swimming Men's 50 metre backstroke S1
 Silver Taiganidis, CharalamposCharalampos Taiganidis Swimming Men's 50 m freestyle S13
 Bronze Kapellakis, GeorgiosGeorgios Kapellakis Swimming Men's 200 m freestyle S2
 Bronze Protos, IoannisIoannis Protos Athletics Men's 400 m T13
 Bronze Taiganidis, CharalamposCharalampos Taiganidis Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle S13
 Bronze Tsiou, AnastasiosAnastasios Tsiou Athletics Men's shot put F57/58
 Bronze Dimoglou, AlexandraAlexandra Dimoglou Athletics Women's 200 m T13
 Bronze Barakas, AthanasiosAthanasios Barakas Athletics Men's long jump F11
 Bronze Stamatoula, MariaMaria Stamatoula Athletics Women's shot put F32-34/52/53
 Bronze Kapellakis, GeorgiosGeorgios Kapellakis Swimming Men's 50 metre backstroke S2
 Bronze Fernandes, Che JonChe Jon Fernandes Athletics Men's shot put F53/54
 Bronze Dimoglou, AlexandraAlexandra Dimoglou Athletics Women's 100 m T13

Multiple medallists

The following Greek athletes won multiple medals at the 2008 Paralympic Games.

Name Medal Sport Events
Taiganidis, CharalamposCharalampos Taiganidis  Gold
 Gold
 Silver
 Silver
 Silver
 Bronze		 Swimming Men's 100 m freestyle S13
Men's 100 m backstroke S13
Men's 100 m butterfly S13
Men's 200 m individual medley SM13
Men's 50 m freestyle S13
Men's 400 m freestyle S13
Kapellakis, GeorgiosGeorgios Kapellakis  Gold
 Silver
 Bronze
 Bronze		 Swimming Men's 50 m freestyle S2
Men's 100 m freestyle S2
Men's 200 m freestyle S2
Men's 50 m backstroke S2
Dimoglou, AlexandraAlexandra Dimoglou  Silver
 Bronze
 Bronze		 Athletics Women's 400 m T13
Women's 200 m T13
Women's 100 m T13

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men
Athlete Event Ranking round Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Score Rank Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Romaios Roumeliotis Individual recurve - Standing 475 24  Zarzuela (ESP)
L 90-97		 Did not advance
Women
Athlete Event Ranking round Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Score Rank Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Anna Tzika Individual recurve - Standing 550 10 BYE  Byambasuren (MGL)
W 90-85		  Gao (CHN)
L 83-106		 Did not advance

Boccia

Main article: Boccia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Athlete Event Match 1 Match 2 Match 3 Rank Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Dimitrios Michos Individual BC3  Pesquera (ESP)
L 0-14		  Kabush (CAN)
L 1-6		  Raimundo (POR)
L 1-5		 4 Did not advance
Grigorios Polychronidis Individual BC3  Zhu (CHN)
W 11-1		  Dijkstra (NZL)
W 19-0		  Sukkarath (THA)
W 7-0		 1 Q  Gauthier (CAN)
W 6-3		  Jeong (KOR)
W 4-1		  Park (KOR)
L 2-3
Maria Stavropoulou Individual BC3  Gauthier (CAN)
L 1-9		  Costa (POR)
L 3-5		  Martin (ESP)
L 2-11		 4 Did not advance
Dimitrios Michos
Grigorios Polychronidis
Maria Stavropoulou		 Pairs BC3  Thailand (THA)
L 2-5		  Portugal (POR)
L 2-5		  New Zealand (NZL)
D 2-2		 4 Did not advance

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Road

Athlete Event Time Rank
Ioannis Kalaitzakis Men's time trial LC1 41:13.72 16
Men's road race LC1/LC2/CPA 2:02.21 29
Stamatios Kotzias Mixed time trial CP1/CP2 27:02.61 10
Mixed road race CP1/CP2 50.09 6

Track

Men
Athlete Event Heats Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Ioannis Kalaitzakis Individual pursuit (LC 1) 5:20.026 15 Did not advance
1 km time trial (LC 1) 1:16.450 12

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men
Athlete Event Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final Repechage 1 Repechage 2 Bronze Rank
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result
Theoklitos Papachristos +100 kg  Papp (HUN)
L 0001-1001		 Did not advance  Parasyuk (RUS)
L 0000-0001		 Did not advance
Women
Athlete Event Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final Repechage 1 Repechage 2 Bronze Rank
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result
Maria Keramida -57 kg  Karkar (ALG)
L 0000-0010		 Did not advance  Cete (TUR)
W 1000-0010		  Merenciano (ESP)
L 0002-0010		 Did not advance 5

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men
Athlete Event Total lifted Rank
Nikolaos Gkountanis -75 kg 190.0 kg 7
Pavlos Mamalos -82.50 kg 225.0 kg
Gkremislav Moysiadis -67.50 kg 187.5 kg 5
Women
Athlete Event Total lifted Rank
Anastasia Kazantzidou -67.50 kg 87.5 kg 7

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Athlete Event Race Score Rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Georgios Delikouras 1P keelboat (2.4MR) 15 13 9 3 13 14 7 14 12 8 79 13
Vasileios Christoforou
Theodoros Alexas
Nikolaos Paterakis		 3P keelboat (Sonar) 2 5 7 5 8 2 4 9 2 6 8 41 7

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Score Rank Score Rank
Panagiotis Giannoukaris Mixed R5-10M air rifle prone SH2 597 16 Did not advance
Evangelos Kakosaios Mixed R5-10M air rifle prone SH2 597 14 Did not advance
Eleni Zampoura Women's P2-10M air pistol SH1 360 9 Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men
Athlete Events Heat Final
Time Rank Time Rank
Konstantinos Fykas S8 100 m freestyle 1:00.96 6 Q 1:01.40 7
S8 50 m freestyle DSQ Did not advance
Georgios Kapellakis S2 200 m freestyle 5:12.99 2 Q 5:05.91
S2 100 m freestyle 2:31.97 3 Q 2:23.63
S2 50 m freestyle 1:11.02 3 Q 1:04.85
Konstantinos Karaouzas SB3 100 m breaststroke 56.71 6 Q 54.47 4
Ioannis Kostakis S3 100 m freestyle 1:52.89 3 Q 1:45.72 4
S3 200 m freestyle 3:38.42 4
S3 50 m freestyle 49.87 2 Q 49.84 5
Charalampos Taiganidis S13 100 m butterfly 1:00.52 2 Q 59.20
S13 400 m freestyle 4:31.17 6 Q 4:23.59
S13 100 m freestyle 54.96 2 Q 53.37
SM13 200 m individual medley 2:24.19 7 Q 2:16.95
S13 100 m backstroke 1:03.02 1 Q 59.85
Christos Tampaxis S2 100 m freestyle 2:53.19 10 Did not advance
S2 50 m freestyle 1:20.84 9 Did not advance
Vasileios Tsagkaris SB3 100 m breaststroke 56.04 5 Q 55.91 6
Stylianos Tsakonas S4 100 m freestyle 1:40.63 9 Did not advance
S4 50 m backstroke 51.04 6 Q 51.15 6
S4 200 m freestyle 3:43.87 8 Q 3:40.20 8
SM4 150 m individual medley 3:00.27 7 Q 2:57.99 7
Nikolaos Tsotras S7 100 m freestyle 1:10.07 9 Did not advance
S7 100 m backstroke 1:21.52 10 Did not advance
S7 50 m freestyle 31.41 7 Q 31.01 5
Ioannis Kostakis
Stylianos Tsakonas
Konstantinos Karaouzas
Nikolaos Tsotras		 20 pts 4x50 m freestyle 2:57.98 4
Women
Athlete Events Heat Final
Time Rank Time Rank
Maria Kalpakidou S3 50 m freestyle 1:25.39 12 Did not advance
Maria Liaskou S3 50 m freestyle 1:29.31 14 Did not advance

Tennis

Main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men
Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Georgios Lazaridis Singles - Open  Majdi (FRA)
L 0-6 0-6		 Did not advance

Wheelchair fencing

Main article: Wheelchair fencing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men
Athlete Event Preliminary Round Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Score		 Rank Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score		 Opposition
Score
Pylarinos Markantonatos Épée A  Alhaddad (KUW)
L 3-5
 Serafini (ITA)
W 5-2
 Saengsawang (THA)
W 5-1
 Sanchez (ESP)
W 5-3
 Davydenko (UKR)
L 4-5
 Maillard (FRA)
W 5-4		 2 Q  Betti (ITA)
L 12-15		 Did not advance
Emmanouil Bogdos Épée B  Alsaedi (KUW)
W 5-4
 Latreche (FRA)
L 3-5
 Williams (USA)
L 4-5
 Poleshchuk (RUS)
W 5-2
 Komar (UKR)
L 2-5		 5 Q  Bezyazynchny (BLR)
L 7-15		 Did not advance

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ξεκινούν οι Αγώνες των δυνατών" (in Greek). www.sport-fm.gr. 2008-09-06. http://www.sport-fm.gr/article/145434#show-thumb. Retrieved 2008-09-07. 

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