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Sport in Greece

Greece has a long and important history in the world of sport, being the original home of the ancient Olympic Games. Here are details of sports, sporting events and sports people related to Greece.


Major sports of Greece

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

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

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