Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

was the host nation of the 1896 Summer Olympics

1896 Summer Olympics

The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Athens, Greece, from April 6 to April 15, 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era...

held in Athens

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

. The number of Greek contestants is commonly cited as 169, but as many as 176 Greeks contested events in all nine sports. The Greeks were by far the most successful nation in terms of total medals with 46, 26 more than the United States of America

United States at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Fourteen competitors from the United States competed in three sports at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The Americans were the most successful nation in terms of gold medals, beating host nation Greece, 11 to 10...

. 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

Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, twelve athletics events were contested. All of the events except the marathon were held in the Panathinaiko Stadium, which was also the finish for the marathon. Events were held on 6 April, 7 April, 9 April, and 10 April 1896 . 64 athletes, all men, from ten nations...

 and the vault and the team horizontal bar in gymnastics

Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics

At the 1896 Summer Olympics, eight gymnastics events, all for men, were contested in Panathinaiko Stadium. They were organized and prepared by the Sub-Committee for Wrestling and Gymnastics. Events took place on 9 April, 10 April, and 11 April 1896...

.

Gold

• Nikolaos Andriakopoulos
  Nikolaos Andriakopoulos
  Nikolaos Andriakopoulos was a Greek gymnast. He was a member of Panachaikos Gymnastikos Syllogos, that merged in 1923 with Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi.-Olympics performances:...
  
   - gymnastics, rope climbing
• Ioannis Georgiadis
  Ioannis Georgiadis
  Ioannis Georgiadis was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 1906 Intercalated Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris....
  
   - fencing, sabre
• Pantelis Karasevdas
  Pantelis Karasevdas
  Pantelis Karasevdas was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Karasevdas competed in the military rifle event. He dominated the field, hitting the target with all 40 of his shots for a total score of 2,350. His score in the first string of 10 shots was...
  
   - shooting, military rifle
• Aristidis Konstantinidis
  Aristidis Konstantinidis
  Aristidis Konstantinidis was a Greek racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Olympic success in 1896:Konstantinidis competed in the 10 kilometres, 100 kilometres, and road races...
  
   - cycling, road race
• Spiridon Louis
  Spiridon Louis
  Spyridon Louis was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero....
  
   - athletics, marathon
• Ioannis Malokinis
  Ioannis Malokinis
  Ioannis Malokinis was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. His home island was Spetses.Malokinis competed in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors event. He placed first of three swimmers, with a time of 2:20.4. This time was nearly a minute slower than the mark of...
  
   - swimming, 100 metres for sailors
• Ioannis Mitropoulos
  Ioannis Mitropoulos
  Ioannis Mitropoulos was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Mitropoulos competed in both the individual and team events of the parallel bars, and the individual rings event. In the rings event, he gave Greece its first gold medal in gymnastics...
  
   - gymnastics, rings
• Georgios Orphanidis
  Georgios Orphanidis
  Georgios Orphanidis was a Greek sports shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London....
  
   - shooting, free rifle
• Ioannis Phrangoudis
  Ioannis Phrangoudis
  Ioannis Frangoudis was a Greek Army officer who reached the rank of Lt General. He also competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens as a shooter....
  
   - shooting, rapid fire pistol
• Leonidas Pyrgos
  Leonidas Pyrgos
  Leonidas Pyrgos was a Greek fencer.-Career:Pyrgos was the first Greek Olympic medallist in the history of the modern Olympic Games, winning his fencing event of the 1896 Summer Olympics on 7 April 1896...
  
   - fencing, masters foil

Silver

• Ioannis Andreou - swimming, 1,200 metres freestyle
• Spyridon Chazapis - swimming, 100 metres for sailors
• Miltiadis Gouskos - athletics, shot put
• Telemachos Karakalos
  Telemachos Karakalos
  Telemachos Karakalos was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karakalos competed in the men's sabre event. In the five-man, round-robin tournament, Karakalos won three of his four matches. He defeated Georgios Iatridis, Adolf Schmal, and Holger Nielsen but lost to...
  
   - fencing, sabre
• Dionysios Kasdaglis
  Dionysios Kasdaglis
  Dionysios Kasdaglis was a Greek-Egyptian tennis player. He competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Kasdaglis, the only competitor from Egypt, made it to the finals in both the singles and doubles events...
  
   - tennis, singles
• Georgios Kolettis
  Georgios Kolettis
  Georgios Kolettis was a Greek cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Kolettis competed in the 10 and 100 kilometres races. He finished second in the 100 kilometres, behind Léon Flameng of France. Kolettis and Flameng were the only two to finish. When Flameng crossed the...
  
   - cycling, 100 kilometres
• Stamatios Nikolopoulos
  Stamatios Nikolopoulos
  Stamatios Nikolopoulos was a Greek racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Nikolopoulos competed in the 333 metres and the 2 kilometres races, placing second in each to Frenchman Paul Masson. Nikolopoulos's time in the 2 kilometres was 5:00.2...
  
   - cycling, 333 metres, 2 kilometres
• Georgios Orphanidis
  Georgios Orphanidis
  Georgios Orphanidis was a Greek sports shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London....
  
   - shooting, rapid fire pistol
• Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos
  Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos
  Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Gortynia and died in Corfu....
  
   - athletics, discus throw
• Pavlos Pavlidis - shooting, military rifle
• Antonios Pepanos
  Antonios Pepanos
  Antonios Pepanos was a Greek swimmer. He was a member of Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron, which merged with Panachaikos Gymnastikos Syllogos in 1923 to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi....
  
   - swimming, 500 metres freestyle
• Ioannis Frangoudis - shooting, free rifle
• Georgios Tsitas
  Georgios Tsitas
  Georgios Tsitas was a Greek wrestler. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.In the first round of the wrestling competition, held in a roughly Greco-Roman format, Tsitas had a bye to guarantee a top three finish before he even had a match. The semifinal pitted Tsitas against fellow...
  
   - wrestling, Greco-Roman
• Charilaos Vasilakos - athletics, marathon
• Thomas Xenakis
  Thomas Xenakis
  Thomas Xenakis was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Greece and died in Orange, California, United States....
  
   - gymnastics, rope climbing
• Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos
  Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos
  -Depth Chart:-Honors and titles:*Total National Titles: 6**Greek Championships : 1929, 1939, 1940, 1953, 1955, 1957**Runners up : 1935, 1950, 1951, 1954**Greek Cup Runners up : 1987**Greek A2 Championships : 1987, 2004...
  
   - gymnastics, team parallel bars

Bronze

• Efstathios Choraphas - swimming, 500 metres freestyle, 1,200 metres freestyle
• Stephanos Christopoulos
  Stephanos Christopoulos
  Stephanos Christopoulos was a Greek wrestler. He was a member of Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron, that merged in 1923 with Panachaikos Gymnastikos syllogos to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi.Christopoulos competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens...
  
   - wrestling, Greco-Roman
• Evangelos Damaskos
  Evangelos Damaskos
  Evangelos Damaskos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Damaskos competed in the pole vault. He tied with fellow Greek Ioannis Theodoropoulos for third place in the event, with a height of 2.60 metres....
  
   - athletics, pole vault
• Dimitrios Drivas
  Dimitrios Drivas
  Dimitrios Drivas was a Greek swimmer best known for competing at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Drivas competed in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors event. He placed third of the three swimmers which, although winning him a medal, was still last....
  
   - swimming, 100 metres for sailors
• Dimitrios Golemis
  Dimitrios Golemis
  Dimitrios P. Golemis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Golemis competed in the 800 metres. He finished second in his preliminary heat to advance to the final. There, he came in last of the three finalists who started the race, as Albin Lermusiaux of France...
  
   - athletics, 800 metres
• Nikolaos Morakis
  Nikolaos Morakis
  Nikolaos Morakis Morakis competed in the military pistol event. He scored 205 points, finishing in third behind the American brothers John and Sumner Paine....
  
   - shooting, military pistol
• Alexandros Nikolopoulos
  Alexandros Nikolopoulos
  Alexandros Nikolopoulos was a Greek weightlifter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.In the one-handed event now known as the snatch, Nikolopoulos finished third out of the four lifters...
  
   - weightlifting, one-handed
• Georgios Papasideris
  Georgios Papasideris
  Georgios Papasideris was a Greek athlete and weightlifter.-Career:Papasideris was born in Koropi.He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He competed in the shot put, placing third...
  
   - athletics, shot put
• Konstantinos Paspatis
  Konstantinos Paspatis
  Konstantinos Paspatis was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Born in Liverpool, England 5 June 1878 and died in Athens 14 March 1903....
  
   - tennis, singles
• Ioannis Persakis
  Ioannis Persakis
  Ioannis Persakis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Athens.Persakis competed in the triple jump, taking third place. His best jump was 12.52 metres.-External links:*...
  
   - athletics, triple jump
• Petros Persakis
  Petros Persakis
  Petros Persakis was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Persakis competed in the individual rings and team parallel bars events. He placed third in the rings event...
  
   - gymnastics, rings
• Ioannis Frangoudis - shooting, free pistol
• Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis - fencing, amateur foil
• Ioannis Theodoropoulos
  Ioannis Theodoropoulos
  Ioannis Theodoropoulos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Evrytania.Theodoropoulos competed in the pole vault. He tied with fellow Greek Evangelos Damaskos for third place in the event, with a height of 2.60 metres.-External links:*...
  
   - athletics, pole vault
• Nikolaos Trikoupis
  Nikolaos Trikoupis
  Nikolaos Trikoupis was a Greek general and politician.Born in Mesolongi in 1869 to Themistoklis Trikoupis, he entered the Greek Army Academy, which he graduated in 1888 as an Artillery Second Lieutenant. He furthered his studies in France, where he remained from 1889 to 1895. He competed at the...
  
   - shooting, military rifle
• Sotirios Versis
  Sotirios Versis
  Sotirios Versis was a Greek athlete and weightlifter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Versis competed in the discus throw. He placed third behind American Robert Garrett and fellow Greek Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos. Versis's best throw was 27.78 metres.In weightlifting, Versis...
  
   - athletics, discus throw, weightlifting, two-handed
• Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos
  Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos
  Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos or Ethnikos Athens is one of the oldest sports clubs in Greece. It was founded in 1893.It had a team of gymnasts competing at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.The team's leader was Ioannis Chrysafis...
  
   - gymnastics, team parallel bars

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

Spiridon Belokas

Spyridon Belokas was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Athens.Belokas was one of 17 athletes to start the Olympic marathon race. He crossed the finish line in third place behind Spiridon Louis and Kharilaos Vasilakos, but was later found to have...

 had covered part of the distance by cart and was disqualified.

Event	Place	Athlete	Heat	Final
100 metres	5th	Alexandros Chalkokondylis	12.75 seconds	12.6 seconds
	–	Georgios Gennimatas	Unknown	Did not advance
800 metres	3rd	Dimitrios Golemis Dimitrios Golemis Dimitrios P. Golemis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Golemis competed in the 800 metres. He finished second in his preliminary heat to advance to the final. There, he came in last of the three finalists who started the race, as Albin Lermusiaux of France...	2:16.8	2:28.0
	–	Angelos Fetsis Angelos Fetsis Angelos Fetsis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Lefkada.Fetsis competed in the 800 metres event. He placed either fourth or fifth in his preliminary heat, though records do not indicate whether he was ahead or behind countryman Dimitrios Tomprof...	Unknown	Did not advance
		Dimitrios Tomprof Dimitrios Tomprof Dimitrios Tomprof was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Tomprof, of Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire, placed either fourth or fifth in his preliminary heat of the 800 metres, though records do not indicate whether he was ahead or behind countryman Angelos Fetsis...	Unknown
1500 metres	5th	Angelos Fetsis	No heats	Unknown
	6th	Dimitrios Golemis		Unknown
	–	Konstantinos Karakatsanis Konstantinos Karakatsanis Konstantinos Karakatsanis was a Greek athlete.He was born in Athens.He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karakatsanis competed in the 1,500 metres. He placed in the bottom half of the eight runners who took part in the single race of the event, though his exact placing is...		Unknown
		Dimitrios Tomprof		Unknown
110 metre hurdles	–	Athanasios Skaltsogiannis Athanasios Skaltsogiannis Athanasios Skaltsogiannis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Aitolikon.Skaltsogiannis competed in the 110 metres hurdles. His time and place in the preliminary heat is not recorded, but it is known that he finished third or fourth and did not...	Unknown	Did not advance
		Anastasios Andreou Anastasios Andreou Anastasios Andreou was a Greek athlete from Cyprus. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Limassol in 1877. He studied at the Greek School of Limassol where he was declared Multi-victorious Champion....	Unknown
Marathon	1st	Spiridon Louis Spiridon Louis Spyridon Louis was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero....	No heats	2:58.50
	2nd	Charilaos Vasilakos		3:06:03
	4th	Ioannis Vrettos Ioannis Vrettos Ioannis Vrettos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Vrettos was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished fourth of the nine athletes who completed the race.-External links:*...		Unknown
	5th	Eleitherios Papasimeon Eleitherios Papasimeon Eleftherios Papasymeon was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Papasimeon was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished fifth of the nine athletes to have completed the race.-External links:*...		Unknown
	6th	Dimitrios Deligiannis Dimitrios Deligiannis Dimitrios Deligiannis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Stemnitsa, Gortynia.Deligiannis was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished sixth of the nine athletes to have completed the race.-External links:*...		Unknown
	7th	Evangelos Gerakeris Evangelos Gerakeris Evangelos Gerakeris was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Chalkida.Gerakeris was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished seventh of the nine athletes to have completed the race....		Unknown
	8th	Stamatios Masouris Stamatios Masouris Stamatios Masouris was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Masouris was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He finished eighth of the nine athletes to have completed the race.-External links:*...		Unknown
	–	Ioannis Lavrentis Ioannis Lavrentis Ioannis Lavrentis was a Greek athlete who was likely the second runner to win a marathon. On March 12, 1896, Lavrentis was first in a field of 38 runners attempting to qualify for the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece ....		Did not finish
		Georgios Grigoriou Georgios Grigoriou Georgios Grigoriou was a Greek athlete.He was born in Sozopol.He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Grigoriou was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He was one of the seven runners that dropped out of the race.-External links:...		Did not finish
		Ilias Kafetzis Ilias Kafetzis Ilias G. Kafetzis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Kafetzis was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He was one of the seven runners that dropped out of the race.-External links:*...		Did not finish
		Dimitrios Khristopoulos Dimitrios Khristopoulos Dimitrios Christopoulos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Christopoulos was one of 17 athletes to start the marathon race. He was one of the seven runners that dropped out of the race.-External links:*...		Did not finish
		Spyridon Belokas		Disqualified

Event	Place	Athlete	Best mark
Long jump	4th	Alexandros Chalkokondylis	5.74 metres
	–	Athanasios Skaltsogiannis	Unknown
Triple jump	3rd	Ioannis Persakis Ioannis Persakis Ioannis Persakis was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Athens.Persakis competed in the triple jump, taking third place. His best jump was 12.52 metres.-External links:*...	12.52 metres
	–	Christos Zoumis	Unknown
Pole vault	3rd	Evangelos Damaskos Evangelos Damaskos Evangelos Damaskos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Damaskos competed in the pole vault. He tied with fellow Greek Ioannis Theodoropoulos for third place in the event, with a height of 2.60 metres....	2.60 metres
		Ioannis Theodoropoulos Ioannis Theodoropoulos Ioannis Theodoropoulos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Evrytania.Theodoropoulos competed in the pole vault. He tied with fellow Greek Evangelos Damaskos for third place in the event, with a height of 2.60 metres.-External links:*...	2.60 metres
	5th	Vasilios Xydas Vasilios Xydas Vasilios Xydas was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Athens.In 1896 Xydas competed in the pole vault...	2.40 metres
Shot put	2nd	Miltiadis Gouskos	11.03 metres
	3rd	Georgios Papasideris Georgios Papasideris Georgios Papasideris was a Greek athlete and weightlifter.-Career:Papasideris was born in Koropi.He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He competed in the shot put, placing third...	10.36 metres
Discus throw	2nd	Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos was a Greek athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Gortynia and died in Corfu....	28.95 metres
	3rd	Sotirios Versis Sotirios Versis Sotirios Versis was a Greek athlete and weightlifter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Versis competed in the discus throw. He placed third behind American Robert Garrett and fellow Greek Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos. Versis's best throw was 27.78 metres.In weightlifting, Versis...	27.78 metres
	–	Georgios Papasideris	Unknown

Cycling

Greece had entries in all six cycling events, winning one and taking second place in three more.

Event	Place	Cyclist	Time/Distance
333 metres	2nd	Stamatios Nikolopoulos Stamatios Nikolopoulos Stamatios Nikolopoulos was a Greek racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Nikolopoulos competed in the 333 metres and the 2 kilometres races, placing second in each to Frenchman Paul Masson. Nikolopoulos's time in the 2 kilometres was 5:00.2...	26.0 seconds
2 kilometres	2nd	Stamatios Nikolopoulos	5:00.2
10 kilometres	5th	Aristidis Konstantinidis Aristidis Konstantinidis Aristidis Konstantinidis was a Greek racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Olympic success in 1896:Konstantinidis competed in the 10 kilometres, 100 kilometres, and road races...	Unknown
	–	Georgios Kolettis Georgios Kolettis Georgios Kolettis was a Greek cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Kolettis competed in the 10 and 100 kilometres races. He finished second in the 100 kilometres, behind Léon Flameng of France. Kolettis and Flameng were the only two to finish. When Flameng crossed the...	Did not finish
100 kilometres	2nd	Georgios Kolettis	Unknown
	–	Aristidis Konstantinidis	Did not finish
12 hour race	–	Georgios Paraskevopoulos Georgios Paraskevopoulos Georgios Paraskevopoulos was a Greek cyclist. He participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Paraskevopoulos competed in the 12 hour race and the road race. He did not finish the 12 hours. In the road race, he was not among the top three out of the seven cyclists to compete....	Did not finish
		Loverdos Loverdos Nikos Loverdos was an Ottoman racing cyclist from the Greek community in Smyrna. He competed as a Greek at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Loverdos competed in the 12 hours race, but did not finish.-External links:...	Did not finish
		A. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris A. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris A. Tryfiatis-Tripiaris was a Greek racing cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Tryfiatis-Tripiaris competed in the 12 hour race, but did not finish.-External links:*...	Did not finish
		Konstantinos Konstantinou Konstantinos Konstantinou Konstantinos Konstantinou was a Greek cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Konstantinou competed in the road race, an 87 kilometre competition that took cyclists from Athens to Marathon and back...	Did not finish
Road race	1st	Aristidis Konstantinidis	3:22:31
	–	Georgios Aspiotis Georgios Aspiotis Georgios Aspiotis was a Greek cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Aspiotis competed in the road race, an 87 kilometre competition that took cyclists from Athens to Marathon and back. He did not finish in the top three, though his exact place among the fourth through...	Unknown
		Miltiades Iatrou Miltiades Iatrou Miltiades Iatrou was a Greek cyclist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Iatrou competed in the road race, an 87 kilometre competition that took cyclists from Athens to Marathon and back. He did not finish in the top three, though his exact place among the fourth through seventh...	Unknown
		Konstantinos Konstantinou	Unknown
		Georgios Paraskevopoulos	Unknown

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 Jean Maurice Perronet

Jean Maurice Perronet

Joanni Perronet was a French fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning a silver medal....

 in the sole match of the masters foil event.

Event	Place	Fencer	Record		Touches		Round-robin	Final
			Wins	Losses	For	Against
Foil	3rd	Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis	2	1	7	4	2nd Group A	Did not advance
	4th	Athanasios Vouros Athanasios Vouros Athanasios Vouros was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Vouros competed in the foil event. He placed second of four in his preliminary group after winning his match against Georgios Balakakis, losing to Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, and winning by forfeit against...	2	1	8	4	2nd Group B	Did not advance
	5th	Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was a Greek Army officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos was born in Istanbul in 1854, and enlisted in the Greek Army on 11 April 1877 as a volunteer, serving in the cavalry. He fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 and the...	1	2	5	7	3rd Group B	Did not advance
	7th	Georgios Balakakis Georgios Balakakis Georgios Balakakis was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 and 1906 Summer Olympics.Balakakis competed in the amateur foil event. He placed fourth of four in his preliminary group after losing all of his bouts, to Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Konstantinos Komninos-Miliotis, and Athanasios Vouros...	0	3	3	9	4th Group B	Did not advance
		Ioannis Poulos Ioannis Poulos Ioannis Poulos was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Poulos competed in the amateur foil event. He placed fourth of four in his preliminary group after losing all of his bouts, to Henri Callot, Henri Delaborde, and Perikles Pierrakos-Mavromichalis...	0	3	4	9	4th Group A	Did not advance
Masters foil	1st	Leonidas Pyrgos Leonidas Pyrgos Leonidas Pyrgos was a Greek fencer.-Career:Pyrgos was the first Greek Olympic medallist in the history of the modern Olympic Games, winning his fencing event of the 1896 Summer Olympics on 7 April 1896...	1	0	3	1	None held	Won 3-1
Sabre	1st	Ioannis Georgiadis Ioannis Georgiadis Ioannis Georgiadis was a Greek fencer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 1906 Intercalated Olympics and the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris....	4	0	12	6	1st	None held
	2nd	Tilemachos Karakalos	3	1	11	5	2nd	None held
	5th	Georgios Iatridis Georgios Iatridis Georgios Iatridis was a Greek fencer. He participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Iatridis competed in the sabre event. In the five-man, round-robin tournament, he lost all four of his matches. He was defeated by Ioannis Georgiadis, Adolf Schmal, Telemachos Karakalos and Holger...	0	4	3	12	5th	None held

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
Austria Austria at the 1896 Summer Olympics Three sportsmen from Austria competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Though Austria was then a part of Austria-Hungary, most sources separate Austrian competitors from the Hungarians at the 1896 Games.-Medalists:...	2	1	.667
Denmark Denmark at the 1896 Summer Olympics Three athletes from Denmark competed in five sports at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Two of the three combined to win a gold medal, two silvers, and three bronzes, while Eugen Schmidt earned no medals. Viggo Jensen contributed one of each color, while Holger Nielsen earned the second silver...	2	1	.667
France France at the 1896 Summer Olympics Thirteen athletes from France competed in six sports at the 1896 Summer Olympics. France won the fourth-most gold medals with 5 and the fourth-most total medals with 11. Cycling was the sport in which the French competitors had the most success, as they completely dominated the field...	2	6	.250
Total international	6	8	.429
Greece	7	7	.500
Total	13	15	.464

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.

Event	Place	Gymnast
Parallel bars	–	Filippos Karvelas Filippos Karvelas Filippos Karvelas was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karvelas competed in both the individual and team events of the parallel bars. He did not win a medal in the individual event, though his ranking is unknown...
		Ioannis Mitropoulos Ioannis Mitropoulos Ioannis Mitropoulos was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Mitropoulos competed in both the individual and team events of the parallel bars, and the individual rings event. In the rings event, he gave Greece its first gold medal in gymnastics...
		Antonios Papaigannou Antonios Papaigannou Antonios Papagiannou was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Papaigannou competed in the parallel bars and horizontal bar individual events. He did not win medals in either competition, though his exact ranking is unknown....
Horizontal bar	–	Antonios Papagiannou
		Leonidas Tsiklitiras Leonidas Tsiklitiras Leonidas Tsiklitiras was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Tsiklitiras competed in the horizontal bar event. He did not win a medal, though his exact placement is unknown....
Pommel horse	–	Aristovoulos Petmezas Aristovoulos Petmezas Aristovoulos Petmezas was a Greek gymnast and shooter. He competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Petmezas entered the pommel horse event. He did not earn a medal, though beyond that his placement in the competition is unknown....
Rings	1st	Ioannis Mitropoulos
	3rd	Petros Persakis Petros Persakis Petros Persakis was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Persakis competed in the individual rings and team parallel bars events. He placed third in the rings event...

Event	Place	Gymnast	Height
Rope climbing	1st	Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Nikolaos Andriakopoulos Nikolaos Andriakopoulos was a Greek gymnast. He was a member of Panachaikos Gymnastikos Syllogos, that merged in 1923 with Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi.-Olympics performances:...	14.0 metres
	2nd	Thomas Xenakis Thomas Xenakis Thomas Xenakis was a Greek gymnast. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.He was born in Greece and died in Orange, California, United States....	14.0 metres

Event	Place	Team
Team parallel bars	2nd	Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos -Depth Chart:-Honors and titles:*Total National Titles: 6**Greek Championships : 1929, 1939, 1940, 1953, 1955, 1957**Runners up : 1935, 1950, 1951, 1954**Greek Cup Runners up : 1987**Greek A2 Championships : 1987, 2004...
	3rd	Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos Ethnikos Gymnastikos Syllogos or Ethnikos Athens is one of the oldest sports clubs in Greece. It was founded in 1893.It had a team of gymnasts competing at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.The team's leader was Ioannis Chrysafis...

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

United States at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Fourteen competitors from the United States competed in three sports at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. The Americans were the most successful nation in terms of gold medals, beating host nation Greece, 11 to 10...

 in the pistol events that the two brothers entered.

Event	Place	Shooter	Score	Hits
Military rifle	1st	Pantelis Karasevdas Pantelis Karasevdas Pantelis Karasevdas was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Karasevdas competed in the military rifle event. He dominated the field, hitting the target with all 40 of his shots for a total score of 2,350. His score in the first string of 10 shots was...	2350	40
	2nd	Pavlos Pavlidis	1978	38
	3rd	Nicolaos Trikupis	1713	34
	4th	Anastasios Metaxas Anastasios Metaxas Anastasios Metaxas was a Greek architect and shooter.Metaxas is best known for being the architect chosen by George Averoff to restore the Panathinaiko Stadium for the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the birth of the modern Olympic movement, while the design was from Ernst Ziller. He also competed...	1701	Unknown
	5th	Georgios Orphanidis Georgios Orphanidis Georgios Orphanidis was a Greek sports shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London....	1698	Unknown
	7th	Georgios Diamantis Georgios Diamantis Georgios Diamantis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Diamantis competed in the two rifle events. In the military rifle event, he placed seventh with a score of 1,456. In the second string of 10 shots, he scored 384. His score and place in the free rifle...	1456	Unknown
	9th	Ioannis Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis was a Greek shooter who competed at five Olympic games, and one unofficial Olympic Games...	1261	Unknown
	11th	Alexios Fetsios Alexios Fetsios Alexios Fetsios was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Fetsios competed in the two rifle events. In the military rifle event, he placed eleventh with a score of 894. In the second string of 10 shots, he scored 272. His score and place in the free rifle event is...	894	Unknown
	12th	Spiridon Stais Spiridon Stais Spiridon Stais was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Theofilakis competed in the military rifle event. He tied for twelfth place with Eugen Schmidt at 845 points....	845	Unknown
	–	Aristovoulos Petmezas Aristovoulos Petmezas Aristovoulos Petmezas was a Greek gymnast and shooter. He competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Petmezas entered the pommel horse event. He did not earn a medal, though beyond that his placement in the competition is unknown....	Unknown
		G. Karagiannopoulos G. Karagiannopoulos G. Karagiannopoulos was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karagiannopoulos competed in the military rifle event. His time and place are unknown, but he was not among the top 13 in the 42-man competition....	Unknown
		22 others, names unknown	Unknown
Free rifle	1st	Georgios Orphanidis	1583	37
	2nd	Ioannis Phrangoudis Ioannis Phrangoudis Ioannis Frangoudis was a Greek Army officer who reached the rank of Lt General. He also competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens as a shooter....	1312	31
	4th	Anastasios Metaxas	1102	Unknown
	5th	Pantelis Karasevdas	1039	Unknown
	–	Antelothanasis Antelothanasis Antelothanasis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Antelothanasis competed in the free rifle event. His place and score in the event are not known, though he did not finish in the top five....	Unknown
		Georgios Diamantis	Unknown
		Alexios Fetsios	Unknown
		Karakatsanis Karakatsanis Karakatsanis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Karakatsanis competed in the free rifle event. His place and score in the event are not known, though he did not finish in the top five....	Unknown
		Hatzidakis	Unknown
		Nikolaos Levidis Nikolaos Levidis Nikolaos Levidis , born August 25, 1868, date of death unknown) was a Greek shooter in the 1896 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was born in Corfu.Levidis competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens in the free rifle event...	Unknown
		Zenon Mikhailidis Zenon Mikhailidis Zinon Michailidis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Michailidis competed in the free rifle event and military pistol event. His place and score in those competitions are not known, though he did not finish in the top five....	Unknown
		Moustakopoulos Moustakopoulos Moustakopoulos was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Moustakopoulos competed in the free rifle event. His place and score in the event are not known, though he did not finish in the top five....	Unknown
		Pavlos Pavlidis	Unknown
		Alexandros Theofilakis Alexandros Theofilakis Alexandros Theofilakis was a Greek shooter.-Career:Theofilakis competed at the Summer Olympics in 1896, 1908, 1912 and 1920.At the 1906 Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal at 25 m army pistol event....	Unknown
		Ioannis Theofilakis	Unknown
		Nikolaos Trikupis	Unknown
	–	Leonidas Langakis Leonidas Langakis Leonidas Langakis was a Greek shooter.-Career:Langakis participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, competing in the free rifle event. He did not finish the competition....	Did not finish
		Ioannis Vourakis Ioannis Vourakis Ioannis Vourakis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Vourakis competed in the free rifle event. He did not finish the competition....	Did not finish
Military pistol	3rd	Nikolaos Morakis Nikolaos Morakis Nikolaos Morakis Morakis competed in the military pistol event. He scored 205 points, finishing in third behind the American brothers John and Sumner Paine....	205	Unknown
	4th	Ioannis Phrangoudis	Unknown
	–	Zenon Mikhailidis	Unknown
		Georgios Orphanidis	Unknown
		Pantazidis Pantazidis Pantazidis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Pantazidis competed in the military pistol event. His place and score in the competition are unknown except that he did not finish in the top five....	Unknown
		Patsouris Patsouris Patsouris was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Patsouris competed in the military pistol event. His place and score in the competition are unknown except that he did not finish in the top five....	Unknown
		Pavlos Pavlidis	Unknown
		Aristovoulos Petmezas	Unknown
		Platis Platis Platis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Platis competed in the military pistol event. His place and score in the competition are unknown except that he did not finish in the top five....	Unknown
		Vavis Vavis Vavis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Vavis competed in the military pistol event. His place and score in the competition are unknown except that he did not finish in the top five....	Unknown
	–	Pantelis Karasevdas	Did not finish
		Sanidis Sanidis Sanidis was a Greek shooter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Sanidis competed in the military pistol event. He did not finish the competition....	Did not finish
Rapid fire pistol	1st	Ioannis Phrangoudis	344	23
	2nd	Georgios Orphanidis	249	20
Free pistol	3rd	Ioannis Phrangoudis	Unknown
	4th	Leonidas Morakis Leonidas Morakis Leonidas Morakis was a Greek shooter.-Career:Morakis participated in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, competing in the free pistol event. He placed fourth, though his score is unknown....	Unknown
	5th	Georgios Orphanidis	Unknown

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 two bronzes, all in the two longer races.

Event	Place	Swimmer	Time
100 metre freestyle	–	Georgios Anninos Georgios Anninos Georgios Anninos was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Anninos competed in the 100 metres freestyle event. His time and place are unknown, though he did not finish in the top two....	Unknown
		Efstathios Chorophas Efstathios Chorophas Efstathios Choraphas was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Choraphas was the only swimmer to compete in all three of the open swimming events, as they were contested immediately after each other...	Unknown
		Alexandros Khrisafos Alexandros Khrisafos Alexandros Chrysafos was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Chrysafos competed in the 100 metres freestyle event. His time and place are unknown, though he did not finish in the top two....	Unknown
		Four others, names unknown	Unknown
500 metre freestyle	2nd	Antonios Pepanos Antonios Pepanos Antonios Pepanos was a Greek swimmer. He was a member of Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron, which merged with Panachaikos Gymnastikos Syllogos in 1923 to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi....	9:57.6
	3rd	Efstathios Chorophas	Unknown
1200 metre freestyle	2nd	Joannis Andreou Joannis Andreou Ioannis Andreou was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Andreou competed in the 1,200 metres freestyle event. He placed second of the seven swimmers, with a time of 21:03.4. The winner, Alfréd Hajós, had finished in 18:22.2....	21:03.4
	3rd	Efstathios Chorophas	Unknown
	–	N. Kartavas N. Kartavas N. Kartavas was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Katravas competed in the 1,200 metres freestyle event. His time and place in the competition are unknown, though he did not finish in the top three.-References:...	Unknown
		Three others, names unknown	Unknown
100 metres, sailors	1st	Ioannis Malokinis Ioannis Malokinis Ioannis Malokinis was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. His home island was Spetses.Malokinis competed in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors event. He placed first of three swimmers, with a time of 2:20.4. This time was nearly a minute slower than the mark of...	2:20.4
	2nd	Spiridon Chasapis Spiridon Chasapis Spyridon P. Chazapis was a Greek swimmer. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Chazapis competed in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors event. He placed second of the three swimmers....	Unknown
	3rd	Dimitrios Drivas Dimitrios Drivas Dimitrios Drivas was a Greek swimmer best known for competing at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Drivas competed in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors event. He placed third of the three swimmers which, although winning him a medal, was still last....	Unknown

Tennis

Greece earned a silver medal and a bronze medal in the singles tournament. Kasdaglis and Petrokokkinos competed as a mixed team

Mixed team at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Early Olympic Games allowed for individuals in a team to be from different nations. The International Olympic Committee now groups their results together under the mixed team designation...

, winning another silver which is not counted in the Greek total.

Event	Place	Player(s)	Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Singles	2nd	Dionysios Kasdaglis Dionysios Kasdaglis Dionysios Kasdaglis was a Greek-Egyptian tennis player. He competed in the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Kasdaglis, the only competitor from Egypt, made it to the finals in both the singles and doubles events...	Won	Won	Won	Lost
	3rd	Konstantinos Paspatis Konstantinos Paspatis Konstantinos Paspatis was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Born in Liverpool, England 5 June 1878 and died in Athens 14 March 1903....	Won	Won	Lost	Did not advance
	5th	Aristidis Akratopoulos Aristidis Akratopoulos Aristidis Akratopoulos was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.-Career:Akratopoulos won his first-round match in the singles tournament, defeating Edwin Flack of Australia. He met fellow Greek Konstantinos Paspatis in the second round, however, and Paspatis...	Won	Lost	Did not advance
		Konstantinos Akratopoulos Konstantinos Akratopoulos Konstantinos Akratopoulos Akratopoulos had a bye in the first round of the singles tournament. He met Dionysios Kasdaglis of Egypt in the second round, losing to the eventual silver medallist. Akratopoulos finished in a three-way tie for fifth place....	Won Walkover	Lost
		Evangelos Rallis Evangelos Rallis Evangelos Rallis was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Rallis defeated fellow Greek Demetrios Petrokokkinos in the first round of the singles tournament. In the second round, though, he faced John Pius Boland of Great Britain and Ireland. He lost to the...	Won	Lost
	8th	D. Frangopoulos D. Frangopoulos D. Frangopoulos was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Frangopoulos was defeated in the first round of the singles tournament by Momcsilló Tapavicza of Hungary. This put him in a six-way tie for eighth place in the field of thirteen players. He did not...	Lost	Did not advance
		Demetrios Petrokokkinos Demetrios Petrokokkinos Demetrios Petrokokkinos was a Greek tennis player. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Petrokokkinos was defeated in the first round of the singles tournament by fellow Greek Evangelos Rallis. This put him in a six-way tie for eighth place among the thirteen man field.In the...	Lost
Doubles	2nd	Dionysios Kasdaglis Demetrios Petrokokkinos	None held	Won	Won	Lost
	4th	Aristidis Akratopoulos Konstantinos Akratopoulos		Lost	Did not advance
		Konstantinos Paspatis Evangelos Rallis		Lost

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
	1	0	1.000
	1	0	1.000
	1	1	.500
	1	3	.250
	1	3	.250
Total international	5	7	.417
Greece	4	3	.571
Total	9	10	.474

Weightlifting

In the one handed event, weightlifters had to lift with each hand successively. Nikolopoulos was able to list 57 kilograms with one hand, but only 40 kilograms with the other. He was judged to have come in third place in the event between the silver medallist Viggo Jensen

Viggo Jensen

Alexander Viggo Jensen was a Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast, and athlete. He was the first Danish Olympic champion, at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens....

 who had lifted 57 with each hand and 4th place finisher Versis who had lifted 40 with each, but had not been able to lift 57 with either.

Lifting form was used to break ties in the two handed competition.

Event	Place	Weightlifter	Best lift
One handed	3rd	Alexandros Nikolopoulos Alexandros Nikolopoulos Alexandros Nikolopoulos was a Greek weightlifter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.In the one-handed event now known as the snatch, Nikolopoulos finished third out of the four lifters...	57.0 kilograms 40.0 kilograms
	4th	Sotirios Versis Sotirios Versis Sotirios Versis was a Greek athlete and weightlifter. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.Versis competed in the discus throw. He placed third behind American Robert Garrett and fellow Greek Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos. Versis's best throw was 27.78 metres.In weightlifting, Versis...	40.0 kilograms
Two handed	3rd	Sotirios Versis	90.0 kilograms
	4th	Georgios Papasideris Georgios Papasideris Georgios Papasideris was a Greek athlete and weightlifter.-Career:Papasideris was born in Koropi.He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He competed in the shot put, placing third...	90.0 kilograms

Wrestling

Christopoulos won a battle of endurance against Momcsilló Tapavicza

Momcsilló Tapavicza

Momčilo Tapavica was a native Serb tennis player, weightlifter, wrestler and architect who in his youth...

 in the quarterfinals of the wrestling tournament. He then had to face Tsitas, who had received a bye in that round. Tsitas won, giving Christopoulos the bronze medal and a shoulder injury. Tsitas then faced Carl Schuhmann

Carl Schuhmann

Carl Schuhmann was a German athlete, who was born in Münster and won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, becoming the most successful athlete at the inaugural Olympics of the modern era...

 in the final. Schuhmann, having had a bye in the semifinals, took two days to defeat Tsitas, the match having to be postponed on account of darkness at the end of 40 minutes in the first day.

Event	Place	Wrestler	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Greco-Roman	2nd	Georgios Tsitas Georgios Tsitas Georgios Tsitas was a Greek wrestler. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.In the first round of the wrestling competition, held in a roughly Greco-Roman format, Tsitas had a bye to guarantee a top three finish before he even had a match. The semifinal pitted Tsitas against fellow...	Bye	Won	Lost
	3rd	Stephanos Christopoulos Stephanos Christopoulos Stephanos Christopoulos was a Greek wrestler. He was a member of Gymnastiki Etaireia Patron, that merged in 1923 with Panachaikos Gymnastikos syllogos to become Panachaiki Gymnastiki Enosi.Christopoulos competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens...	Won	Lost	Did not advance

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
Germany Germany at the 1896 Summer Olympics Germany competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.The Germans were the third most successful nation in terms of both gold medals and total medals . Gymnastics was the sport in which Germany excelled. The German team had 19 athletes...	0	1	.000
Hungary Hungary at the 1896 Summer Olympics Hungary competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Austrian and Hungarian results at early Olympic Games are generally kept separate despite the union of the two nations as Austria-Hungary at the time....	1	0	1.000
Total international	1	1	.500
Greece	1	1	.500
Total	2	2	.500