Greece at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Greece at the 1968 Summer Olympics
IOC code	GRE
NOC	Hellenic Olympic Committee
Website	www.hoc.gr (in Greek and English)
in Mexico City
Competitors	44 (44 men and 0 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Khristos Papanikolaou
Medals Ranked 42nd	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Greece competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 44 competitors, all men, took part in 27 events in 7 sports.^[1] Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Petros Galaktopoulos	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 70 kg	26 October

Athletics

Christos Papanikolaou, pole vault (5,35 m): 4th place

Boxing

Sailing

Shooting

Seven shooters, all men, represented Greece in 1968.

25 m pistol

• Alkiviadis Papageorgopoulos

50 m rifle, prone

• Lambis Manthos
• Ioannis Skarafingas

Trap

• Georgios Pangalos
• Markos Tzoumaras

Skeet

• Panagiotis Xanthakos
• Menelaos Mikhailidis

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Lost to Netherlands (5:9)
• Lost to Japan (7:8)
• Defeated United Arab Republic (7:6)
• Lost to East Germany (4:11)
• Lost to Mexico (8:11)
• Lost to Yugoslavia (1:11)
• Lost to Italy (2:6)

• Classification Matches

• 13th/14th place: Lost to Brazil (2:5) → Fourteenth place

• Team Roster

• Andreas Garifallos
• Dimitrios Kougevetopoulos
• Georgios Palikaris
• Georgios Theodorakopoulos
• Ioannis Palios
• Ioannis Thimaras
• Kyriakos Iosifidis
• Nikolaos Tsangas
• Panagiotis Mathioudakis
• Panagiotis Mikhalos
• Thomas Karalogos

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database