2024 Paris Olympics: Greece makes good progress, no medals yet

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Having concluded day two of the Paris Olympics, here are some notable updates on Greece‘s progress in the 2024 Summer Games so far.

Rowing Single Sculls

Stefanos Ntouskos has qualified for the men’s single culls quarterfinals, after placing second in his preliminary heat. He covered the 2km course in seven minutes, 1.79 seconds.

The promising Ntouskos won a gold medal for Greece in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Greek athlete Stefanos Ntouskos advances on the first day of the Paris Olympics. Photo: Hellenic Olympic Committee.

Artistic Gymnastics

Olympic gold medallist Lefteris Petrounias was the first member of the Greek team to compete in Paris over the weekend. His performance was witnessed by Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his wife Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotakis (his first Olympic visit since 2004).

Petrounias’ score of 14.800 and difficulty rating of 6.300 saw him through to fourth place in the preliminaries, securing his spot for the gymnastics rings final on Sunday, August 4.

Basketball

Greece fell short of a win against pre-game favourite Canada, with a final score of 86-79 in the national basketball team’s opening Group A game.

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 34 points for Greece, 18 in the second half, and Kostas Papanikolaou added 17, but none in the final period.

Canada had three players foul out, while Calathes’ foul out did the same for Greece.

Greece is set to face Spain and Australia this week.

Shooting

In the women’s 10-meter air pistol, Anna Korakaki and Christina Moschi failed to advance to the finals. Korakaki will however, have a second chance at a medal in the women’s 25-meter air pistol.

Swimming

Greece’s Katerina Dountounaki and Sofia Damasioti did not qualify for the semifinals of the women’s 100-meter butterfly.

Tennis

Stefanos Tsitsipas has qualified for the second round of the Olympic tournament in a 2-1 set win over Zizou Bergs. The Greek champion recovered his lead after losing his footing in the second set, ending the gruelling match at 7-6(6), 1-6, 6-1.

Maria Sakkari prevailed against Montenegro’s Danka Kovinic in a delayed match due to poor weather conditions. In the second round of the tournament, Sakkari will face Yuan Yu.

Water Polo

Led by Thodoris Vlachos, Greece’s men’s water polo delegation claimed victory over Romania with a 14-7 win in Group A of the Olympic tournament in Paris.

This comes after Greece’s silver medal win in the event in Tokyo.

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