European Games

Greece at the 1st European Games “Baku 2015”

At the premiere of the new sports institution of the “old” continent, the 1st European Games 2015, Greece could not be absent.

The Hellenic Olympic Committee honored its traditions with its continuous presence in the sport institutions and sent a team of 137 athletes to Baku, Azerbaijan.

It all started on June 12, 2015, in a way that was strongly Greek.

The director, choreographer and creator of the opening ceremony was Dimitris Papaioannou, the man who had impressed the whole world with his wonderful work at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics.

The program included 20 different sports, 12 of which were also eligible for qualification for the Rio Games.

The Greek team did extremely well and their total haul reached nine medals, divided into one gold, four silver and as many bronze.

Lefteris Petrounias won the only gold medal in the gymnastics rings.

Giorgos Tzanos won silver in karate, Dimitris Dimitriou in swimming, Vlasis Maras in gymnastics, Anna Korakaki – Kostas Malgarinos in shooting and Nikos Iliadis in judo, Elektra Lebl in swimming and both national water polo teams won the bronze.

Greece at the 2nd European Games “Minsk 2019”

From June 21 to 30, 2019, the 2nd European Games were held in Minsk, Belarus. The Greek delegation consisted of 65 people, 38 male and 27 female athletes, while the head of the mission was the member of the Plenary Assembly of the HOC, Xenia Argitaki. The table tennis champion Panagiotis Gionis was the flag bearer.

Greece won nine medals. Christos Volikakis won two gold medals in cycling, in scratch and in the points race, and Anna Korakaki in shooting, with the 25-metre pistol. Korakaki also won silver in the 10-metre air pistol, as did Savvas Karakizidis in sambo. Giorgos Azoidis in judo, Elena Chatziliadou in karate, Kostas Douvalidis in 110-metre hurdles and Raphaela Spanoudaki in 100-metre race climbed to the third step of the podium.

Greece at the 3rd European Games “Krakow – Malopolska 2023”

Greece participated in the 3rd European Games “Krakow Malopolska 2023” with a large and dynamic delegation of athletes who competed in a variety of sports, representing the country with success. The Games took place in Krakow and the Malopolska region of Poland from June 21 to July 2, 2023, attracting top athletes from all over Europe.

Team Hellas consisted of 170 members, including 92 female and 78 male athletes, competing in 19 sports, with many aiming for Olympic qualification for Paris 2024. The head of the delegation was Ioannis Karras, a member of the Hellenic Olympic Committee’s Plenary, and the flag bearer was Athletics champion Elina Tzengko.

Greece won a total of seventeen medals. The medals won by Greece at the 3rd European Games are as follows:

Gold:

Anna Korakaki – Shooting

Miltiadis Tentoglou – Athletics

Silver:

Emmanouela Katsouraki – Shooting

Emmanouil Karalis – Athletics

Georgios Tsampodimos Leovaris – Kickboxing

Dionysios Xenos – Karate

Stefanos Xenos – Karate

Bronze:

Dora Gkountoura – Fencing

Skeet Team (Mitas, Mavrommatis, Chalkiadakis) – Shooting

Semeli Zarmakoupi – Kickboxing

Kyriakos Bakirtzis – Muay Thai

Apostolos Telikostoglou – Taekwondo

Konstantinos Chamalidis – Taekwondo

Konstantinos Dimitropoulos – Taekwondo

Kelly Kydonaki – Karate

Georgia Xenos – Karate

Evangelia Platanioti/Sofia Malkogeorgou – Artistic Swimming