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Greece at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
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IPC code	GRE
NPC	Hellenic Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.gr
in Paris, France August 28, 2024 (2024-08-28) – September 8, 2024 (2024-09-08)
Competitors	37 in 10 sports
Flag bearers (opening)	Theodora Paschalidou Manolis Stefanoudakis
Flag bearers (closing)	Alexandra Stamatopoulou Antonios Tsapatakis
Medals Ranked 33rd	Gold 3 Silver 3 Bronze 7 Total 13
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Greece competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France, that took place from 28 August to 8 September. The Greek team won 13 medals all together. Three of them gold medals, three silver and seven bronze medals. Another notable achievement were the back-to-back win by Nasos Gavelas, the first Greek to do it and Grigoris Polychronidis who won his 7th medal in the BC3 category of boccia .

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Athanasios Konstantinidis	Athletics	Men's shot put F32	3 September
Gold	Athanasios Ghavelas Guide: Ioannis Nyfantopoulos	Athletics	Men's 100 m T11	5 September
Gold	Alexandra Stamatopoulou	Swimming	Women's 50 m backststroke S4	7 September
Silver	Lida-Maria Manthopoulou	Athletics	100 metres T38	31 August
Silver	Athanasios Konstantinidis	Athletics	Men's club throw F32	31 August
Silver	Antonios Tsapatakis	Swimming	Men's 100 m breaststroke SB4	2 September
Bronze	Christina Gkentzou	Taekwondo	Women's 65 kg	30 August
Bronze	Eleni Papastamatopoulou	Taekwondo	Women's +65 kg	31 August
Bronze	Grigorios Polychronidis	Boccia	Men's individual BC3	1 September
Bronze	Konstantinos Tzounis	Athletics	Men's discus throw F56	2 September
Bronze	Lazaros Stefanidis	Athletics	Men's shot put F32	3 September
Bronze	Manolis Stefanoudakis	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F54	6 September
Bronze	Theodora Paschalidou	Judo	Women's 70kg J1	6 September

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Archery

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	588 SB	5	Bye	Rahimi (IRI) L 0-6	Did not advance

Athletics

Greek track and field athletes achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2023 World Championships, 2024 World Championships, or through high performance allocation, as long as they meet the minimum entry standard (MES).

Key

• Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
• Q = Qualified for the next round
• q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
• DQ = Disqualified
• PR = Paralympic Record
• AR = Area (or continental) Record
• NR = National Record
• SB = Season's Best
• N/A = Round not applicable for the event
• Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men's track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Athanasios Ghavelas Guide: Ioannis Nyfantopoulos	Men's 100 m T11	11.16	1 Q	11.08	1 Q	11.02 SB
Michail Seitis	Men's 200 m T64	23.32	7 q	—		23.15	5
Stylianos Malakopoulos	Men's 400 m T62	—				52.76 PB	7

Men's field events

Athlete	Event	Final
		Distance	Position
Athanasios Prodromou	Men's long jump T20	6.95	7
Efstratios Nikolaidis	Men's shot put F20	15.66 SB	7
Grigorios Ntislis	Men's discus throw F52	11.89	10
Athanasios Konstantinidis	Men's shot put F32	11.92 AR
	Men's club throw F32	38.65 PB
Dimitrios Zisidis	Men's shot put F32	8.88	6
	Men's club throw F32	23.90	9
Lazaros Stefanidis	Men's shot put F32	9.84
	Men's club throw F32	36.87	5
Stylianos Malakopoulos	Men's long jump T64	6.81	7
Manolis Stefanoudakis	Men's javelin throw F54	30.13
Konstantinos Tzounis	Men's discus throw F56	41.32

Women's track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Lida-Maria Manthopoulou	100 metres T38	12.53 PB	3 Q	12.49 PB

Women's field events

Boccia

Greece entered two athletes into the Paralympics games in the BC3, by winning the silver medal in the mixed pairs event for BC3, at the 2024 Paralympic Qualification Tournament in Coimbra, Portugal.

Athlete	Event	Pool matches				Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Grigorios Polychronidis	Men's individual BC3	Menard (FRA) W 5–2	Arita (JPN) W 9–0	Carvalho (BRA) L 1–4	1 Q	Choochuenklin (THA) W 4–1	Michel (AUS) L 1–6	Iskrzycki (POL) W 4*–4
Anna Ntenta	Women's individual BC3	Ferrando (ARG) L 2–8	Ichinoe (JPN) L 0–8	Callupe (PER) W 5–4	3	Did not advance			9
Chrysi Morfi Metzou	Women's individual BC4	Arambasic (CRO) W 5–4	Aller Mayo (ESP) W 7–0	Chica (COL) L 3–10	2 Q	Mat Salim (MAS) L 0–7	Did not advance		5
Grigorios Polychronidis Anna Ntenta	Mixed pairs BC3	South Africa W 10–0	Brazil W 4–1	—	1 Q	Argentina L 4–5	Did not advance		5

Cycling

Greece sent one male para-cyclist after finished the top eligible nation's at the 2022 UCI Nation's ranking allocation ranking.

Equestrian

Greece entered two para-equestrianist into the Paralympic equestrian competition, by virtue of the nations individual final world para dressage rankings.

Individual

Powerlifting

Men

Judo

Theodora Paschalidou and Emmanouella Masourou have qualified for the Games.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Theodora Paschalidou	Women's 70 kg J1	Bye	Lauria (ITA) W 10–00	Souza de Freitas (BRA) L 1–10	Bye	Lkhaijav (MGL) W 10–00
Emmanouela Masourou	Women's 48 kg J1	Bye	Nikolaychyk (UKR) L 10–00	—	Togtokhbayar (MGL) W 10–00	Tasin (TUR) L 00–10	5

Shooting

Greece entered one para-shooter after achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2022, 2023 and 2024 world cup, 2022 World Championships, 2023 World Championships, 2023 European Para Championships and 2024 European Championships, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by July 15, 2024.

Men

Mixed

Swimming

Greece secured one quotas at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships after finishing in the top two places in Paralympic class disciplines.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Dimitrios Karypidis	Men's 50m backstroke S1	—		1:31.50	5
	Men's 100m backstroke S1	—		3:18.09	4
Nikolaos Kontou	Men's 50m backstroke S1	—		1:37.48	6
	Men's 100m backstroke S1	—		3:49.31	5
Ioannis Kostakis	Men's 50m freestyle S3	1:02.32	14	Did not advance
	Men's 200m freestyle S3	4:35.61	12	Did not advance
	Men's 50m breaststroke SB2	—		1:14.00	7
	Men's 150m individual medley SM3	3:47.16	12	Did not advance
Alexandros-Stylianos Lergios	Men's 50m freestyle S5	38.00	12	Did not advance
	Men's 100m freestyle S5	1:23.01	11	Did not advance
	Men's 50m butterfly S5	40.56	11	Did not advance
Dimosthenis Michalentzakis	Men's 100 m freestyle S8	59.44	4 Q	59.75	6
	Men's 100 m butterfly S8	1:06.63	7 Q	DQ
	Men's 200 m individual medley SM8	2:30.51	6 Q	2:25.97	4
Antonios Tsapatakis	Men's 100 m breaststroke SB4	1:37.00	2 Q	1:36.16

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Areti Aravela Spyridou	50 m backstroke S2	1:46.04 PB	10	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke S2	3:45.65 PB	10	Did not advance
Alexandra Stamatopoulou	50m backstroke S4	—		50.12
	50m freestyle S4	47.73	10	Did not advance
Maria Tziveleki	200 m individual medley SM5	4:17.39	13	Did not advance
	200 m freestyle S5	3:28.19 PB	15	Did not advance

Mixed

Taekwondo

Greece entered one athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. Eleni Papastamatopoulou qualified for Paris 2024, following the triumph of her gold medal results in women's +65 kg classes, at the 2024 European Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Athlete	Event	First round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Eleni Papastamatopoulou	Women's +65 kg	Kyeremaa (GHA)   W 24-7	Naimova (UZB) L 5-12	Did not advance	Santiago Moreno (ESP) W 11-7	Fernanda Vargas (MEX) W 36-9
Christina Gkentzou	Women's 65 kg	Zewar (POL) W 22-0	Silva de Moura (BRA) L 7-11	Did not advance	Secil (TUR) W 23-2	Yao (CHN) W 14-4

See also

• Greece at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• Greece at the Paralympics

References

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