Sport in Greece

Major sports of Greece

• Football (Soccer)
• Athletics
• Basketball
• Waterpolo
• Weightlifting

Greek Sporting Successes

• 1987 and 2005 - European basketball champions

Athletes from Greece

• Dimitrios Loundras (gymnastics)
• Pyrros Dimas - 3 time Olympic champion in weightlifting.
• Spiros Louis - first modern Olympic Marathon winner 1896.

Greece Sports trivia

• Greece is one of only two nations to have participated at every Olympic Games of the modern era

• At the 1896 Summer Olympics Greece finished 2nd on the medal table with 10 gold medals, one less than the USA.

Greece at major events

• Greece at the Summer Olympics
• Greece at the FIFA World Cup

Past sporting events hosted in Greece

• 776 BC - 393 AD - the ancient Olympics held in in Olympia.
• 1896 Olympic Games Athens
• 1906 Olympic Games Athens
• 2004 Olympic Games Athens

Upcoming sporting events in Greece

Annual sporting events held in Greece

• Superleague Greece

Sporting Facilities in Greece

• Panathinaiko or Panathenaic Stadium