Greece at the 1908 Summer Olympics

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Greece at the Olympic Games
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At the 1908 Summer Olympics in London
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Greece competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.

Contents 1 Results by event 1.1 Athletics 1.2 Cycling 1.3 Shooting 2 Sources

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Greece's best results were a trio of silver medals, one by Konstantinos Tsiklitiras in each of the standing jumps and the third by Mikhail Dorizas in the freestyle javelin.

Event	Place	Athlete	Heats	Semifinals	Final
Men's 100 metres	Heats	Georgios Skoutarides	Unknown 2nd, heat 1	Did not advance
		Mikhail Paskalides	Unknown 4th, heat 6
Men's 200 metres	Heats	Mikhail Paskalides	Unknown 2nd, heat 9	Did not advance
Men's 1500 metres	Semi- finalist	Stefanos Demitrios	None held	Unknown 4th, heat 4	Did not advance
Men's 110 metre hurdles	Heats	Georgios Skoutarides	Unknown 2nd, heat 3	Did not advance
Men's 5 miles	—	Georgios Koulouberdas	None held	Did not finish —, semifinal 2	Did not advance
Men's marathon	—	Georgios Koulouberdas	None held		Did not finish
		Anastasios Koutoulakis			Did not finish

Event	Place	Athlete	Height/ Distance
Men's triple jump	10th	Dimitrios Muller	13.09 metres
Men's pole vault	6th	Georgios Banikas	3.50 metres
	9th	Stefanos Kountouriotis	3.25 metres
Men's standing high jump	2nd	Konstantinos Tsiklitiras	1.55 metres
Men's standing long jump	2nd	Konstantinos Tsiklitiras	3.235 metres
Men's shot put	9-25	Mikhail Dorizas	Unknown
		Nikolaos Georgantas	Unknown
Men's discus throw	12-42	Mikhail Dorizas	Unknown
		Nikolaos Georgantas	Unknown
Men's javelin throw	8-16	Kharalambos Zouras	Unknown
Men's Greek discus	5th	Mikhail Dorizas	33.34 metres
	6th	Nikolaos Georgantas	33.21 metres
Men's freestyle javelin	2nd	Mikhail Dorizas	51.36 metres
	4th	Kharalambos Zouras	48.61 metres
	10-33	Nikolaos Georgantas	Unknown

[edit] Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics

Greece had one long-distance cyclist enter the cycling competitions in 1908. He did not finish either of his races.

Event	Place	Cyclist	Heats	Semifinals	Final
Men's 20 kilometres	—	Ioannis Santorinaios	None held	Did not finish —, semifinal 5	Did not advance
Men's 100 kilometres	—	Ioannis Santorinaios	None held	Did not finish —, semifinal 2	Did not advance

[edit] Shooting

Event	Place	Shooter	Score
Men's 1000 yard free rifle	45th	Alexandros Theofilakis	30
Men's team free rifle	9th	Ioannis Theofilakis Matthias Triantafilladis Alexandros Theofilakis Georgios Orphanidis Deukal. Rediadis Frangiskos Maurommatis	3789
Men's team military rifle	7th	Ioannis Theofilakis Frangiskos Maurommatis Alexandros Theofilakis Georgios Orphanidis Matthias Triantafilladis Deukal. Rediadis	1999
Men's stationary target small-bore rifle	15th	Georgios Orphanidis	357
Men's individual pistol	25th	Frangiskos Maurommatis	419
	26th	Alexandros Theofilakis	409
	29th	Ioannis Theofilakis	406
	32nd	Deukal. Rediadis	397
Men's team pistol	7th	Frangiskos Maurommatis Alexandros Theofilakis Ioannis Theofilakis Georgios Orphanidis	1576
Men's individual trap shooting	4th	Anastasios Metaxas	57

[edit] Sources

• Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association. 
• De Wael, Herman (2001). Top London 1908 Olympians. Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved on 6 June 2006.

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