Greece at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Greece at the 1920 Summer Olympics
IOC code	GRE
NOC	Hellenic Olympic Committee
Website	www.hoc.gr (in Greek and English)
in Antwerp  Belgium
Competitors	47 in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Vasilios Zarkadis
Medals Ranked 19th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 1
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1906 Intercalated Games

Greece competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. 47 competitors, all men, took part in 34 events in 8 sports.^[1] Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Georgios Moraitinis Iason Sappas Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Alexandros Vrasivanopoulos	Shooting	Men's 30 m team military pistol	August 3

Greece competed in the Olympic water polo tournament for the first time in 1920. The Bergvall System was in use at the time. Greece was shut out by the United States in the quarterfinals. It is unclear why the Greeks received a place in the third-place tournament, as the Americans had not won either gold or silver, but Greece beat Italy in the quarterfinals of the bronze medal tournament before losing again to the United States in the bronze semifinals.

Quarterfinals

United States

7–0

Greece

Antwerp

Bronze medal quarterfinals

Greece

5–1

Italy

Antwerp

Bronze medal semifinals

United States

7–0

Greece

Antwerp

Final rank

5th

Nine athletes represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's sixth appearance in athletics, having competed in the sport at every Olympics. The Stockholm Games were only the second time that no Greek won a medal in athletics.

Ranks given are within the heat.

Three fencers represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport.

Ranks given are within the group.

Greece competed in the Olympic football tournament for the first time. The country was defeated in the first round by Sweden.

Team Roster

• Ioannis Andrianopoulos
• Theodoros Dimitriou
• Antonios Fotiadis
• Agamemnon Gilis
• Dimitrios Gotis
• Georgios Kalafatis
• Nikolaos Kaloudis
• Georgios Khatziandreou
• Apostolos Nikolaidis
• Theodoros Nikolaidis
• Khristos Peppas
• Reserve:Dimitris Demertzis
• Reserve:Ioannis Stavropoulos
• Reserve:Vassilis Samios
• Reserve:Sotiris Despotopoulos
• Reserve:Georgio Andrianopoulos

First round

28 August 1920

Sweden	9–0	Greece
Olsson 4' 79' Karlsson 15' 20' 21' 51' 85' Wicksell 25' Dahl 31'	Report

Olympisch Stadion, Antwerp

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Charles Barette (BEL)

Final rank

10th

Nine shooters represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's fourth appearance in the sport. Greece took a silver medal in the team military pistol, its first medal in shooting since 1896.

Shooter	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
Konstantinos Kefalas	50 m small-bore rifle	Unknown
Georgios Moraitinis	300 m free rifle, 3 pos.	Unknown
Emmanouil Peristerakis	50 m small-bore rifle	Unknown
Iason Sappas	50 m free pistol	464	8
	300 m free rifle, 3 pos.	Unknown
Alexandros Theofilakis	300 m free rifle, 3 pos.	Unknown
Ioannis Theofilakis	50 m free pistol	462	10
	50 m small-bore rifle	Unknown
	300 m free rifle, 3 pos.	Unknown
	600 m military rifle, prone	59	4
Andreas Vikhos	50 m small-bore rifle	Unknown
Alexandros Vrasivanopoulos	300 m free rifle, 3 pos.	Unknown
Vasileios Xylinakis	50 m small-bore rifle	Unknown
Konstantinos Kefalas Emmanouil Peristerakis Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Andreas Vikhos	300 m team military rifle, prone	270	11
	600 m team military rifle, prone	270	7
Konstantinos Kefalas Emmanouil Peristerakis Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Vasileios Xylinakis	300 & 600 m team military rifle, prone	553	7
Konstantinos Kefalas Emmanouil Peristerakis Ioannis Theofilakis Andreas Vikhos Vasileios Xylinakis	50 m team small-bore rifle	1727	10
	300 m team military rifle, standing	209	13
Georgios Moraitinis Iason Sappas Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Alexandros Vrasivanopoulos	30 m team military pistol	1285
	50 m team free pistol	2240	4
	Team free rifle	3910	13

A single tennis player, in the men's singles, competed for Greece in 1920. It was the nation's second appearance in the sport, and first since 1896. Zerlentis lost his first match, though that single match took 66 games over 4 sets to complete.

Player	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Athanasios Zerlentis	Men's singles	Bye	Lowe (GBR) L 14–12, 8–10, 7–5, 6–4	did not advance				17

Opponent nation Wins Losses Percent  Great Britain 0 1 .000 Total 0 1 .000

Round Wins Losses Percent Round of 64 0 0 – Round of 32 0 1 .000 Round of 16 0 0 – Quarterfinals 0 0 – Semifinals 0 0 – Final 0 0 – Bronze match 0 0 – Total 0 1 .000

A single weightlifter represented Greece in 1920. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport, in which Greece was the only country to have competed at both prior appearances in 1896 and 1900.

Five wrestlers competed for Greece in 1920. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport. Notaris was the only one to win a match. Both Dialetis and Vergos competed in both freestyle and Greco-Roman.

Wrestler	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals / Bronze match	Rank
Ioannis Dialetis	Featherweight	N/A	Ackerly (USA) (L)	did not advance			9
Dimitrios Vergos	Middleweight	Bye	Borgström (SWE) (L)	did not advance			9

Opponent nation Wins Losses Percent  Sweden 0 1 .000  United States 0 1 .000 Total 0 2 .000

Round Wins Losses Percent Round of 32 0 0 – Round of 16 0 2 .000 Quarterfinals 0 0 – Semifinals 0 0 – Final 0 0 – Bronze match 0 0 – Total 0 2 .000

Wrestler	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals	Rank
				Silver quarters	Silver semis	Silver match
				Bronze quarters	Bronze semis	Bronze match
Ioannis Dialetis	Featherweight	Brian (USA) (L)	did not advance	did not advance			17
				N/A	did not advance
				did not advance
Sotirios Notaris	Middleweight	Müller (EST) (W)	Stensrud (NOR) (L)	did not advance			13
				did not advance
				did not advance
Vasilios Pavlidis	Lightweight	Frisenfeldt (DEN) (L)	did not advance	did not advance			18
				did not advance
				did not advance
Dimitrios Vergos	Heavyweight	Bye	Sjouwerman (NED) (L)	did not advance			12
				did not advance
				did not advance
Vasilios Vouyoukos	Lightweight	Bye	Metropoulos (USA) (L)	did not advance			12
				did not advance
				did not advance

Opponent nation Wins Losses Percent  Denmark 0 1 .000  Estonia 1 0 1.000  Netherlands 0 1 .000  Norway 0 1 .000  United States 0 2 .000 Total 1 5 .167

Round Wins Losses Percent Round of 32 1 2 .333 Round of 16 0 3 .000 Quarterfinals 0 0 – Semifinals 0 0 – Final 0 0 – Silver quarterfinals 0 0 – Silver semifinals 0 0 – Silver match 0 0 – Bronze quarterfinals 0 0 – Bronze semifinals 0 0 – Bronze match 0 0 – Total 1 5 .167

• Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French).
• Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 16 February 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2007.
• International Olympic Committee results database