Team Hellas departs from Paris with eight new Olympic medals in total
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
With the conclusion of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Team Hellas is departing with eight new medals to add to its total, bringing this to 129 since the start of the modern Olympic Games.
These include a gold medal won by Miltos Tentoglou in the long jump, a silver medal won by champion swimmer Apostolos Christou in the 200m backstroke and six bronze medals won by Theodoros Tselidis in the 90kg men's category in judo, the team Antonis Papakonstantinou-Petros Gaidatzis in the men's lightweight double skiff, Milena Kontou-Zoi Fitsiou in the women's lightweight double skiff, gymnast Lefteris Petrounias in the rings event, Emmanouil Karalis in the men's pole vault and Dauren Kurugliev in freestyle wrestling.
The bronze won by Kurugliev, the last for Team Greece, made the medals tally in Paris equal to that in Atlanta in 1996 and was the fourth best performance for a Greek Olympic mission after that of Athens in 1896 (47 medals), the Athens Games in 2004 (16) and the Sydney Games in 2000 (13). It was also double the four medals won by Greece at the Tokyo Games in 2021.
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