Greece at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Greece competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.[1] The first places the team qualified were for three athletes in sailing events.

Greece at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	GRE
NPC	Hellenic Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.gr
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	60 in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Grigorios Polychronidis (Opening) Athanasios Konstantinidis (Closing)
Medals Ranked 24th	Gold 5 Silver 4 Bronze 4 Total 13
Summer Paralympics appearances
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Funding and support

Funding for Greece's national Paralympic committee comes through the Greek Ministry of Sports and the General Secretariat of Sports. While Greek Paralympians get some support from their national sport federations, many were also getting support from the Greek NPC. The economic situation in the country led to less funding from the government, which caused the Greeks rely more on sponsorship to serve a stop gap measure. One of the biggest sponsors was OPAP, Greece's national lottery. In a few cases, Greek athletes had to self-fund if they wanted to participate internationally as their NPC did not have the funds. In 2013, there was also a tremendous discrepancy in funding between Paralympic sport and Olympic sport, with the Olympic side getting €1,400,000 while the Paralympic side got €200,000.[2]

Disability classifications

Main article: Disability sport classification

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[3][4] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.[5]

Medalists

Further information: 2016 Summer Paralympics medal table

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Athanasios Konstantinidis Athletics Men's Shot Put F32 8 September  Gold Manolis Stefanoudakis Athletics Men's Javelin Throw F53/54 9 September  Gold Pavlos Mamalos Powerlifting Men's −107 kg 14 September  Gold Che Jon Fernandes Athletics Men's Shot Put F53 14 September  Gold Dimosthenis Michalentzakis Swimming Men's 100 m butterfly S9 15 September  Silver Dimitrios Senikidis Athletics Men's Shot Put F20 10 September  Silver Panagiotis Triantafyllou Wheelchair Fencing Men's Sabre B 12 September  Silver Athanasios Konstantinidis Athletics Men's Club Throw F31/32 13 September  Silver Grigorios Polychronidis Boccia Mixed Individual BC3 16 September  Bronze Dimitrios Zisidis Athletics Men's Shot Put F32 8 September  Bronze Dimitrios Bakochristos Powerlifting Men's −54 kg 9 September  Bronze Dimitra Korokida Athletics Women's Shot Put F53 12 September  Bronze Anna Ntenta Nikolaos Pananos Grigorios Polychronidis Boccia Mixed Pairs BC3 12 September Multiple medalists Name Sport Total Athanasios Konstantinidis Athletics 1 1 0 2 Grigorios Polychronidis Boccia 0 1 1 2

Medals by sport Sport Total Athletics 3 2 2 7 Powerlifting 1 0 1 2 Boccia 0 1 1 2 Swimming 1 0 0 1 Wheelchair Fencing 0 1 0 1 Total 5 4 4 13 Medals by day Day Date Total 1 8 September 1 0 1 2 2 9 September 1 0 1 2 3 10 September 0 1 0 1 4 11 September 0 0 0 0 5 12 September 0 1 2 3 6 13 September 0 1 0 1 7 14 September 2 0 0 2 8 15 September 1 0 0 1 9 16 September 0 1 0 1 10 17 September 0 0 0 0 11 18 September 0 0 0 0 Total 5 4 4 13 Medals by gender Gender Total Male 5 4 2 11 Female 0 0 1 1 Mixed 0 0 1 1 Total 5 4 4 13

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games: Sport Men Women Total Archery 0 1 1 Athletics 13 5 18 Boccia 3 2 5 Canoe Sprint 0 2 2 Cycling 1 2 3 Judo 1 0 1 Powerlifting 6 0 6 Sailing 3 0 3 Shooting 1 0 1 Swimming 12 4 16 Wheelchair Fencing 3 1 4 Wheelchair Tennis 1 0 1 Total 44 16 60 Archery Main article: Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Dorothea Poimenidou earned Greece a spot at the Rio Games following her performance at the 2015 World Archery Para Championships. She qualified the country after her performance in the women's recurve open.[6] Women Athlete Event Ranking round Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Score Seed Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank Dorothea Poimenidou Individual Recurve Open 605 7  Duboc (FRA) L 4-6 Did not advance Athletics Main article: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Men Track Athlete Event Classification Heat Final Time Rank Time Rank Christos Koutoulias 100m T45/46/47 11.52 10 Did not advance Michail Seitis T43/44 11.30 PB 10 Did not advance 200m T43/44 22.45 PB 7 q 23.63 7 400m T43/44 49.81 WR 6 q 49.66 WR 6 Christos Koutoulias Ioannis Sevdikalis Konstantin Veltsi Michail Seitis 4x100m Relay T42-47 N/A 47.79 5 Field Athlete Event Classification Final Distance Position Dimitrios Zisidis Shot Put F32 9.24 PB Nikolaos Gonios F32 7.00 10 Athanasios Konstantinidis F32 10.39 WR Che Jon Fernandes F53 8.44 Dimitrios Senikidis F20 16.17 Efstratios Nikolaidis F20 15.69 4 Athanasios Konstantinidis Club Throw F31/32 33.69 Dimitrios Zisidis F31/32 22.24 6 Nikolaos Gonios F31/32 27.26 5 Christos Kapellas Long Jump T43/44 6.40 7 Christos Koutoulias T45/46/47 6.43 13 Evangelos Kanavos T20 6.48 9 Konstantin Veltsi T43/44 5.59 12 Michail Seitis T43/44 6.20 9 Manolis Stefanoudakis Javelin Throw F53/54 29.45 PR Women Track Athlete Event Classification Heat Final Time Rank Time Rank Styliani Smaragdi 100m T45/46/47 13.70 11 Did not advance Field Athlete Event Classification Final Distance Position Anthi Liagkou Shot Put F33 4.69 5 Dimitra Korokida F53 4.28 Valasia Kyrgiovanaki F20 12.11 4 Zoi Mantoudi F20 11.31 9 Styliani Smaragdi Long Jump T45/46/47 4.87 10 Boccia Main article: Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Individual Athlete Event Pool Matches Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank Grigorios Polychronidis Mixed Ιndividual BC3  McCowan (GBR) W 9-1  Michel (AUS) W 7-2 N/A 1 Q  Ho (HKG) W 2-2 Tiebrake Win  Kim (KOR) W 4-1  Jeong (KOR) L 1-8 Anna Ntenta  Cilissen (BEL) W 1-6  Ho (HKG) L 6-1 N/A 2 Did not advance Panagiotis Soulanis Mixed Ιndividual BC1  Prado (ESP) W 6-1  Ibarbure (ARG) W 6-4  Leung Yee (HKG) L 0-9 2 Q  Perez (NED) L 0-13 Did not advance Chrysi Morfi Metzou Mixed Ιndividual BC4  Leung Wing (HKG) L 2-13  Seo (KOR) L 1-10  Vieira (POR) L 1-6 4 Did not advance Pairs and Teams Athlete Event Pool matches Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank Anna Ntenta Nikolaos Pananos Grigorios Polychronidis Mixed Pairs BC3  Singapore (SIN) L 2–3  Great Britain (GBR) W 4–1  Portugal (POR) W 5–2 2 Q N/A  South Korea (KOR) L 1–6  Singapore (SIN) W 8–1 Cycling Main article: Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Road Men Athlete Event Time Rank Athanasios Barakas Men's Road Race B DNF Men's Road Time Trial B 45:38.46 21 Women Athlete Event Time Rank Adamantia Chalkiadaki Women's Road Race B 2:02.52 6 Women's Road Time Trial B 43:03.79 12 Paraskevi Kantza Women's Road Race B 2:43.00 16 Women's Road Time Trial B 50:36.79 17 Track Men Athlete Event Qualification Final Time Rank Time/Opposition Result Rank Athanasios Barakas Men's B 4000m Individual Pursuit 5:03.979 16 Did not advance Men's B 1000m Time Trial N/A 1:07.479 10 Women Athlete Event Qualification Final Time Rank Time/Opposition Result Rank Adamantia Chalkiadaki Women's B 3000m Individual Pursuit 3:46.620 10 Did not advance Women's B 1000m Time Trial N/A 1:13.431 10 Paraskevi Kantza Women's B 3000m Individual Pursuit 4:14.308 14 Did not advance Women's B 1000m Time Trial N/A 1:23.748 14 Judo Main article: Judo at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Men Athlete Event Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Repechage 1 Repechage 2 Final / BM Opposition Result Opposition Result Opposition Result Opposition Result Opposition Result Opposition Result Rank Theoklitos Papachristos −100 kg  Bolukbasi (TUR) L 000–100 Did not advance Paracanoeing Main article: Paracanoeing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Canoe Sprint Women Athlete Event Heats Semifinal Final Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Eleni Prelorentzou KL1 1:53.367 10 SF 1:44.092 5 Did not advance Powerlifting Main article: Powerlifting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Men Athlete Event Total lifted Rank Nikolaos Gkountanis −65 kg 181 5 Pavlos Mamalos −107 kg 238 Dimitrios Bakochristos −54 kg 162 Paschalis Kouloumoglou −59kg 145 5 Kostantinos Dimou +107kg 220 4 Gkremislav Moysiadis −80kg 165 8 Sailing Main article: Sailing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Mixed Athlete Event Race Total points Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Theodoros Alexas Vasileios Christoforou Argyris Notaroglou 3-Person Keelboat (Sonar) 3 6 3 10 7 6 4 10 1 9 9 58 7 Shooting Main article: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Mixed Athlete Event Qualification Final Score Rank Score Rank Evangelos Kakosaios Mixed R4 – 10 m Air Rifle Standing SH2 622.8 23 Did not advance Swimming Main article: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Men Athlete Event Heats Final Time Rank Time Rank Antonios Tsapatakis 50 m Freestyle S5 37.57 11 Did not advance 50 m Butterfly S5 44.55 13 Did not advance 100 m Breaststroke SB4 N/A 1:37.69 4 Aristeidis Makrodimitris 200 m Freestyle S2 5:03.56 6 Q 4:57.90 6 50 m Backstroke S2 1:02.29 7 Q 1:03.46 7 100 m Backstroke S2 2:19.25 7 2:22.45 8 Charalampos Taiganidis 50 m Freestyle S12 24.97 6 Q 24.99 6 100 m Backstroke S12 1:03.70 6 Q 1:01.21 4 Christos Tampaxis 50 m Backstroke S1 N/A 1:22.30 4 100 m Backstroke S1 N/A 2:54.23 4 Dimitrios Karypidis 50 m Backstroke S1 N/A 1:32.09 5 100 m Backstroke S1 N/A 3:12.73 6 Dimosthenis Michalentzakis 50 m Freestyle S9 27.50 13 Did not advance 100 m Butterfly S9 1:01.91 3 Q 59.27 PR 200 m Medley SM9 2:26.15 10 Did not advance Georgios Kapellakis 50 m Backstroke S2 1:14.47 11 Did not advance 100 m Backstroke S2 2:45.85 9 Did not advance Georgios Sfaltos 50 m Freestyle S6 32.65 11 Did not advance 100 m Freestyle S6 1:12.15 11 Did not advance 100 m Breaststroke SB5 1:40.17 6 Q 1:40.05 NR 6 Gerasimos Lignos 50 m Freestyle S13 27.09 18 Did not advance 100 m Breaststroke SB13 1:14.25 7 Q 1:13.68 6 100 m Backstroke S13 1:09.65 10 Did not advance Ioannis Kostakis 50 m Freestyle S3 55.45 8 Q 53.95 7 200 m Freestyle S3 N/A 4:01.46 7 50 m Breaststroke SB2 DSQ Did not advance 50 m Backstroke S3 1:17.35 10 Did not advance 150 m Medley SM3 DNS Did not advance Konstantinos Karaouzas 50 m Breaststroke SB3 54.37 9 Did not advance Panagiotis Christakis 50 m Freestyle S6 31.94 9 Did not advance 100 m Freestyle S6 1:14.05 13 Did not advance 50 m Butterfly S6 35.46 11 Did not advance 100 m Breaststroke SB6 1:37.98 11 Did not advance 200 m Medley SM6 2:59.64 9 Did not advance Women Athlete Event Heat Final Time Rank Time Rank Alexandra Stamatopoulou 100 m Freestyle S3 1:44.29 5 Q 1:47.16 6 50 m Backstroke S3 58.47 5 Q 58.33 5 Chrysoula Antoniadou 200 m Freestyle S5 3:48.62 11 Did not advance 100 m Breaststroke SB4 2:06.92 8 Q 2:06.24 7 Maria Kalpakidou 50 m Backstroke S2 N/A 1:24.45 5 100 m Backstroke S2 N/A 3:00.72 5 Semicha Rizaoglou 50 m Freestyle S4 1:11.60 16 Did not advance 100 m Freestyle S3 2:30.78 11 Did not advance 50 m Backstroke S3 1:06.18 7 Q 1:12.05 8 Mixed Athlete Event Heat Final Time Rank Time Rank Georgios Sfaltos Panagiotis Christakis Alexandra Stamatopoulou Chrysoula Antoniadou 4 x 50 m Freestyle Relay 20Pts 2:43.43 5 Q 2:39.35 5 Wheelchair fencing Main article: Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Men Athlete Event Pool matches Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Opposition Score Rank Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank Gerasimos Pylarinos Markantonatos Sabre A  Lemoine (FRA) L 1–5  Tian (CHN) L 0–5  Chan (HKG) L 2–5  Demchuk (UKR) L 4–5  Cheong (HKG) W 5–2 5 Did not advance Vasileios Ntounis  Chen (CHN) W 5–4  Tsedryk (UKR) W 5–3  Pellegrini (ITA) W 5–4  Noble (FRA) W 5–2  Osvath (HUN) W 5–2 1 Q  Chen (CHN) W 15–12  Osvath (HUN) L 12–15  Tian (CHN) L 5–15 4 Panagiotis Triantafyllou Sabre B  Castro (POL) W 5–3  Mainville (CAN) W 5-1  Cheema (GER) W 5-4  Feng (CHN) W 5-1 1 Q  Mainville (CAN) W 15–6  Pluta (POL) W 15–14  Datsko (UKR) L 7–15 Gerasimos Pylarinos Markantonatos Panagiotis Triantafyllou Vasileios Ntounis Team Épée  France (FRA) L 22-45  Brazil (BRA) W 45-32 2 Q N/A  China (CHN) L 33-45  Poland (POL) L 29-45 4 Women Athlete Event Pool matches Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Opposition Score Rank Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank Kalliopi Loufaki Épée B  Pozniak (UKR) L 1-2  Demaude (FRA) W 5-3  Makowska (POL) L 0-5  Briese-Baetke (GER) L 2-5  Yao (CHN) L 2-5 5 Did not advance Wheelchair tennis Main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Stefanos Diamantis qualified for Rio in the men's singles event via a Bipartite Commission Invitation place.[7] Men Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final / BM Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Rank Stefanos Diamantis Men's Singles  Jeremiasz (FRA) L 2-0 (0–6, 3–6) Did not advance See also Greece at the 2016 Summer Olympics References http://www.euro2day.gr/news/highlights/article/1437563/h-ellhnikh-paraolympiakh-omada-poy-tha-taxidepsei-st.html "The Paralympian" (PDF). 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