Credit: Filip Bossuyt/ Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 2.0 She won Gold at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil with an outstanding jump of 4.85 meters. Katerina Stefanidi, a 31-year old Athens native, is widely regarded as one of the top female Greek athletes of our time. Credit: Barrymyles/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 Katerina Stefanidi, Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou, and Helen Claudia Polak will participate in the women’s pole vault event, while Konstantinos Filippidis and Emmanouil Karalis will represent the country in the same event for male athletes. The athletes on the team are Evangelia Papazoglou, Evangelia Platanioti, Maria Alzigkouzi, Georgia Vasilopoulou, Krystalenia Gialama, Penelope Karamesiou, Adriania Misikevits, Eleni Fragkaki, and Danai Kariori.Īthletes representing Greece at the Olympics in track and fieldĪ total of 19 Greek athletes will be participating in the track and field event at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which is called “Athletics.” The Greek artistic swimming team is composed of nine incredibly talented young women. Artistic Swimming Greel Artistic Swimming team performing to “CATS” during the qualifier. The veteran Olympian qualified for the Summer 2021 games in Tokyo during the pre-Olympic archery tournament that was held in Paris in late June.

Credit: Hellenic Olympic CommitteeĮvangelia Psarra, 47, who was born in Thessaloniki, has competed for Greece six times at the Summer Olympics in Archery. Mavrommatis ranked 9th in the same event in the 2012 Olympic Games held in London. Greek sport shooter Nikolaos Mavrommatis will represent Greece in Tokyo in the skeet shooting event.

1991: Giorgos Mouflouzelis, rebetika musician.Korakaki, along with gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias, will be the flag bearers for Greece during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

1983: Nikos Goulandris, shipowner, president of Olympiakos FC.

1878: Patriarch Joachim II of Constantinople.1865: Makarios I, Archbishop of Cyprus.1834: Panourgias Panourgias, War of Independence hero.

1936: Giorgos Zografos, singer and actor.

2012: Alexandros Papamichail breaks the Greek record in the 20 km Race walking event with a time of 1:21.12.

2012: Alexandra Tsiavou and Christina Giazitzidou win bronze in the women's lightweight double sculls at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

2004: Demis Nikolaidis becomes President of AEK at age 31.1992: Morfo Drosidou wins bronze in Tae Kwon Do in the Barcelona Olympic Games.1984: Babis Cholidis wins bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling in the Los Angeles Olympiad.1972: Vasilis Papageorgopoulos breaks the Greek record for the 100m with a 10.22 performance.1961: Myron Anyfandakis breaks the Greek record for the javelin throw with 74.15m.1936: Christos Mantikas breaks the Greek record for the 400m hurdles: 53.5.1929: Ergotelis FC play their first match: a 4-0 victory over Leon at Handax Stadium in Heraklio, Crete.Its captain and crew are heavily criticised for abandoning the ship before any passengers were rescued. 1991: Greek-owned ship, MTS Oceanos, sinks off the coast of Durban, S.1936: Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas declares a state of emergency and rules by decree.1865: The Hymn to Freedom is established as the National Anthem of Greece.

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