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Greek athletes have won a total of 121 medals in 15 different sports and the country currently ranks 36th in the all-time Summer Olympics medal count. Athletics and weightlifting have been the top medal-producing sports for the nation and in the latter Greece is placed among the top 10 countries overall.
Greece competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with a team of 101 athletes in 17 sports.Greek athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Great Britain, and Switzerland.
Boxing was one of the most popular sports in the ancient Olympic Games and was introduced into the Olympics in 688 BCE. [24] Scene of youths boxing, c. 336 B.C Aristotle reckoned the date of the first Olympics to be 776 BC, a date largely accepted by most, though not all, subsequent ancient historians. [ 25 ]
Handball is considered among the five major olympic team sports in Greece, [7] but it is less popular than football, basketball, volleyball and water polo. [8] However, it is a growing team sport in Greece.
The Nikos Galis Olympic Indoor Hall (also known simply as the Indoor Hall) was completed in 1995, and was the largest indoor venue in use for sporting events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. It is part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex, in the suburb of Maroussi.
[14] In 1896, at the first modern Olympics, the very first modern-day marathon was run. To honor the history of Greek running, Greece chose a course that would mimic the route run by Athenian army. The route started at a bridge in the town of Marathon and ended in the Olympic stadium. Another event in the ancient Olympic Games was the pentathlon.
Greece entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition at the Games for the first time since 2012. 2018 Youth Olympic bronze medalist Fani Tzeli secured a spot in the women's lightweight category (57 kg) with a top two finish at the 2021 European Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC, Greek: Ελληνική Ολυμπιακή Επιτροπή) is the governing Olympic body of Greece. It is the second oldest National Olympic Committee in the world (after the French Olympic Committee ), it organizes the country's representatives at the Olympic Games and other multi-sport events.