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This article lists various water polo records and statistics in relation to the Greece men's national water polo team at the Summer Olympics.

The Greece men's national water polo team has participated in 16 of 27 official men's water polo tournaments.^[1]

Abbreviations

Apps	Appearances	Rk	Rank	Ref	Reference	Cap No.	Water polo cap number
Pos	Playing position	FP	Field player	GK	Goalkeeper	ISHOF	International Swimming Hall of Fame
L/R	Handedness	L	Left-handed	R	Right-handed	Oly debut	Olympic debut in water polo
(C)	Captain	p.	page	pp.	pages

Team statistics

Comprehensive results by tournament

Notes:

• Results of Olympic qualification tournaments are not included. Numbers refer to the final placing of each team at the respective Games.
• At the 1904 Summer Olympics, a water polo tournament was contested, but only American contestants participated. Currently the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Swimming Federation (FINA) consider water polo event as part of unofficial program in 1904.
• Last updated: 5 May 2021.

Legend

Men's team[1]	00	04	08	12	20	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20	Years
Greece					8	13				15					14	14		10	8	9	10	6	10	4	7	9	6	Q	16
Total teams	7		4	6	12	13	14	5	16	18	21	10	16	13	15	16	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Number of appearances

Last updated: 27 July 2021.

Legend

• Year^* – As host team

Men's team[1]	Apps	Record streak	Active streak	Debut	Most recent	Best finish	Confederation
Greece	16	11	11	1920	2020	Fourth place	Europe – LEN

Best finishes

Last updated: 27 July 2021.

Legend

• Year^* – As host team

Men's team[1]	Best finish	Apps	Confederation
Greece	Fourth place (2004*)	16	Europe – LEN

Finishes in the top four

Last updated: 5 May 2021.

Legend

• Year^* – As host team

Men's team[1]	Total	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	First	Last
Greece	1				1 (2004*)	2004	2004

Medal table

Last updated: 5 May 2021.

Men's team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Greece (GRE)	0	0	0	0

Player statistics

Multiple appearances

The following table is pre-sorted by number of Olympic appearances (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), date of birth (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.

• Number of six-time Olympians: 0
• Number of five-time Olympians: 2
• Number of four-time Olympians: 7
• Last updated: 27 July 2021.

Legend

•     – Hosts

Male athletes who competed in water polo at four or more Olympics

Apps	Player	Birth	Pos	Water polo tournaments					Age of first/last	ISHOF member	Note	Ref
				1	2	3	4	5
5	George Mavrotas	1967	FP	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	17/33			[2]
	Georgios Afroudakis	1976	FP	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	19/35			[3]
4	Kyriakos Giannopoulos	1959	FP	1980	1984	1988	1992		21/33			[4]
	Anastasios Papanastasiou	1964	FP	1984	1988	1992	1996		20/32			[5]
	Filippos Kaiafas	1968	FP	1988	1992	1996	2000		20/32			[6]
	Konstantinos Loudis	1969	FP	1992	1996	2000	2004		23/35			[7]
	Theodoros Chatzitheodorou	1976	FP	1996	2000	2004		2012	19/35			[8]
	Nikolaos Deligiannis	1976	GK	2000	2004	2008	2012		24/35			[9]
	Christos Afroudakis	1984	FP	2004	2008	2012	2016		20/32			[10]

Multiple medalists

The following table is pre-sorted by total number of Olympic medals (in descending order), number of Olympic gold medals (in descending order), number of Olympic silver medals (in descending order), year of receiving the last Olympic medal (in ascending order), year of receiving the first Olympic medal (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.

• Number of four-time Olympic medalists: 0
• Number of three-time Olympic medalists: 0
• Last updated: 11 August 2021.

Top goalscorers

The following table is pre-sorted by number of total goals (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), name of the player (in ascending order), respectively.

• Number of goalscorers (50+ goals): 0
• Number of goalscorers (40–49 goals): 2
• Number of goalscorers (30–39 goals): 2
• Last updated: 1 April 2021.

Legend

•     – Hosts

Male players with 30 or more goals at the Olympics

Rk	Player	Birth	L/R	Total goals	Water polo tournaments (goals)					Age of first/last	ISHOF member	Note	Ref
					1	2	3	4	5
1	Kyriakos Giannopoulos	1959		44	1980 (7)	1984 (6)	1988 (18)	1992 (13)		21/33			[11]
2	Georgios Afroudakis	1976	Right	40	1996 (10)	2000 (8)	2004 (9)	2008 (9)	2012 (4)	19/35			[12]
3	Antonios Aronis	1957		33	1980 (4)	1984 (13)	1988 (16)			23/31			[13]
4	Sotirios Stathakis	1953		30	1980 (16)	1984 (14)				27/31			[14]

Sources:

• Official Reports (PDF): 1920–1924, 1948, 1968–1972, 1980–1996;
• Official Results Books (PDF): 2000 (pp. 57, 59, 61, 80–81, 86, 88, 91), 2004 (pp. 203–204), 2008 (pp. 199–200), 2012 (pp. 478–479), 2016 (pp. 117–118).

Goalkeepers

The following table is pre-sorted by edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), cap number or name of the goalkeeper (in ascending order), respectively.

Last updated: 27 July 2021.

Legend and abbreviation

•     – Hosts
• Eff % – Save efficiency (Saves / Shots)

Year	Cap No.	Goalkeeper	Birth	Age	ISHOF member	Note	Ref
1920		Nikolaos Baltatzis-Mavrokordatos	1897	22–23			[15]
		Konstantinos Nikolopoulos					[16]
1924		Nikolaos Baltatzis-Mavrokordatos (2)	1897	26–27		Starting goalkeeper	[15]
		(Unknown)
1948		Alexandros Monastiriotis				Starting goalkeeper	[17]
		(Unknown)
1968	1	Ioannis Thymaras	1934	33–34			[18]
	11	Takis Michalos	1947	20			[19]
1972	1	Dimitrios Konstas					[20]
	11	Takis Michalos (2)	1947	24			[19]
1980	1	Ioannis Vossos	1960	19			[21]
	11	Ioannis Giannouris	1958	22			[22]
1984	1	Ioannis Vossos (2)	1960	23			[21]
	13	Stavros Giannopoulos	1961	23			[23]
1988	1	Nikolaos Christoforidis	1965	23			[24]
	12	Evangelos Patras	1968	19			[25]
1992	1	Evangelos Patras (2)	1968	23			[25]
	13	Gerasimos Voltirakis	1968	24			[26]
Year	Cap No.	Goalkeeper	Birth	Age	ISHOF member	Note	Ref

Year	Cap No.	Goalkeeper	Birth	Age	Saves	Shots	Eff %	ISHOF member	Note	Ref
1996	1	Gerasimos Voltirakis (2)	1968	28	64	124	51.6%		Starting goalkeeper	[26]
	13	Evangelos Patras (3)	1968	27	1	7	14.3%			[25]
2000	1	Georgios Reppas	1974	25	7	23	30.4%			[27]
	6	Nikolaos Deligiannis	1976	24	48	97	49.5%		Starting goalkeeper	[9]
2004	1	Georgios Reppas (2)	1974	29	18	37	48.6%			[27]
	12	Nikolaos Deligiannis (2)	1976	27	31	52	59.6%			[9]
2008	1	Nikolaos Deligiannis (3)	1976	31	38	82	46.3%			[9]
	13	Georgios Reppas (3)	1974	33	28	65	43.1%			[27]
2012	1	Nikolaos Deligiannis (4)	1976	35	45	83	54.2%		Starting goalkeeper	[9]
	13	Filippos Karampetsos	1977	34	6	11	54.5%			[28]
2016	1	Konstantinos Flegkas	1988	28	56	120	46.7%		Starting goalkeeper	[29]
	13	Stefanos Galanopoulos	1993	23	1	5	20.0%			[30]
2020	1	Emmanouil Zerdevas	1997	23						[31]
	13	Konstantinos Galanidis	1990	30						[32]
Year	Cap No.	Goalkeeper	Birth	Age	Saves	Shots	Eff %	ISHOF member	Note	Ref

Sources:

• Official Reports (PDF): 1996 (pp. 62–66, 69, 71–72);
• Official Results Books (PDF): 2000 (pp. 57, 59, 61, 80–81, 86, 88, 91), 2004 (pp. 203–204), 2008 (pp. 199–200), 2012 (pp. 478–479), 2016 (pp. 117–118).

Top sprinters

The following table is pre-sorted by number of total sprints won (in descending order), year of the last Olympic appearance (in ascending order), year of the first Olympic appearance (in ascending order), name of the sprinter (in ascending order), respectively.

• Number of sprinters (30+ sprints won, since 2000): 0
• Number of sprinters (20–29 sprints won, since 2000): 0
• Number of sprinters (10–19 sprints won, since 2000): 2
• Number of sprinters (5–9 sprints won, since 2000): 2
• Last updated: 15 May 2021.

Legend and abbreviation

•     – Hosts
• Eff % – Efficiency (Sprints won / Sprints contested)

Male players with 5 or more sprints won at the Olympics (statistics since 2000)

Rk	Sprinter	Birth	Total sprints won	Total sprints contested	Eff %	Water polo tournaments (sprints won / contested)					Age of first/last	ISHOF member	Note	Ref
						1	2	3	4	5
1	Ioannis Thomakos	1977	18	32	56.3%	2000 (12/18)	2004 (5/12)	2008 (1/2)			23/31			[33]
2	Christos Afroudakis	1984	15	37	40.5%	2004 (6/15)	2008 (7/17)	2012 (1/4)	2016 (1/1)		20/32			[10]
3	Konstantinos Genidounias	1993	8	18	44.4%	2016 (8/18)					23/23			[34]
4	Emmanouil Mylonakis	1985	7	31	22.6%	2008 (2/12)	2012 (2/9)	2016 (3/10)			23/31			[35]

Source:

• Official Results Books (PDF): 2000 (pp. 57, 59, 61, 80–81, 86, 88, 91), 2004 (pp. 203–204), 2008 (pp. 199–200), 2012 (pp. 478–479), 2016 (pp. 117–118).

See also

• Greece women's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
• List of men's Olympic water polo tournament records and statistics
• Lists of Olympic water polo records and statistics
• Greece at the Olympics

References

Sources

Official Reports (IOC)

PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:

Official Results Books (IOC)

PDF documents in the LA84 Foundation Digital Library:

• Official Results Book – 2000 Olympic Games – Water Polo (download, archive)
• Official Results Book – 2004 Olympic Games – Water Polo (download, archive)
• Official Results Book – 2008 Olympic Games – Water Polo (download, archive)

PDF documents on the FINA website:

• Official Results Book – 2012 Olympic Games – Diving, Swimming, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo (archive) (pp. 284–507)

PDF documents in the Olympic World Library:

• Official Results Book – 2016 Olympic Games – Water Polo (archive)

PDF documents on the International Olympic Committee website:

• Official Results Book – 2020 Olympic Games – Water Polo (archive)

Official Reports (FINA)

PDF documents on the FINA website:

• HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics (as of September 2019) (archive) (pp. 4–13)
• 1870–2020 | 150 years of Water Polo – Evolution of its rules (archive)

Official website (IOC)

Water polo on the International Olympic Committee website:

• Water polo
• Men's water polo

Olympedia

Water polo on the Olympedia website:

Sports Reference

Water polo on the Sports Reference website:

Todor66

Water polo on the Todor66 website:

ISHOF

International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) website:

External links

• Greece men's national water polo team – Official website (in Greek)
• Olympic water polo – Official website