Greece at the 2016 Summer Paralympics


Greece competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. The first places the team qualified were for three athletes in sailing events.

Funding and support

Funding for Greece's national Paralympic committee comes through the Greek Ministry of Sports and the General Secretariat of Sports. While Greek Paralympians get some support from their national sport federations, many were also getting support from the Greek NPC. The economic situation in the country led to less funding from the government, which caused the Greeks rely more on sponsorship to serve a stop gap measure. One of the biggest sponsors was OPAP, Greece's national lottery. In a few cases, Greek athletes had to self-fund if they wanted to participate internationally as their NPC did not have the funds. In 2013, there was also a tremendous discrepancy in funding between Paralympic sport and Olympic sport, with the Olympic side getting €1,400,000 while the Paralympic side got €200,000.

Disability classifications

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.

Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
AthleticsMen's Shot Put F32
AthleticsMen's Javelin Throw F53/54
PowerliftingMen's −107 kg
AthleticsMen's Shot Put F53
SwimmingMen's 100 m butterfly S9
AthleticsMen's Shot Put F20
Wheelchair FencingMen's Sabre B
AthleticsMen's Club Throw F31/32
BocciaMixed Individual BC3
AthleticsMen's Shot Put F32
PowerliftingMen's −54 kg
AthleticsWomen's Shot Put F53

BocciaMixed Pairs BC3

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:
SportMenWomenTotal
Archery011
Athletics13518
Boccia325
Canoe Sprint022
Cycling123
Judo101
Powerlifting606
Sailing303
Shooting101
Swimming12416
Wheelchair Fencing314
Wheelchair Tennis101
Total441660

Archery

Dorothea Poimenidou earned Greece a spot at the Rio Games following her performance at the 2015 World Archery Para Championships. She qualified the country after her performance in the women's recurve open.
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Athletics

;Men
;Track
;Field
;Women
;Track
;Field

Boccia

;Individual
;Pairs and Teams

Cycling

Road

;Men
;Women
AthleteEventTimeRank
Adamantia ChalkiadakiWomen's Road Race B2:02.526
Adamantia ChalkiadakiWomen's Road Time Trial B43:03.7912
Paraskevi KantzaWomen's Road Race B2:43.0016
Paraskevi KantzaWomen's Road Time Trial B50:36.7917

Track

;Men
;Women

Judo

;Men

Paracanoeing

;Canoe Sprint
;Women

Powerlifting

;Men
AthleteEventTotal liftedRank
Nikolaos Gkountanis−65 kg1815
Pavlos Mamalos−107 kg238
Dimitrios Bakochristos−54 kg162
Paschalis Kouloumoglou−59kg1455
Kostantinos Dimou+107kg2204
Gkremislav Moysiadis−80kg1658

Sailing

;Mixed

Shooting

;Mixed

Swimming

;Men
;Women
;Mixed

Wheelchair fencing

;Men
;Women

Wheelchair tennis

Stefanos Diamantis qualified for Rio in the men's singles event via a Bipartite Commission Invitation place.
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