Greece at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	GRE
NPC	Hellenic Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.gr
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	60 in 12 sports
Flag bearers	Grigorios Polychronidis (Opening) Athanasios Konstantinidis (Closing)
Medals Ranked 24th	Gold 5 Silver 4 Bronze 4 Total 13
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Greece competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3][4] 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.^[5]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Athanasios Konstantinidis Athletics Men's Shot Put F32 8 September  Gold Manolis Stefanoudakis Athletics Men's Javelin Throw F53/54 9 September  Gold Pavlos Mamalos Powerlifting Men's −107 kg 14 September  Gold Che Jon Fernandes Athletics Men's Shot Put F53 14 September  Gold Dimosthenis Michalentzakis Swimming Men's 100 m butterfly S9 15 September  Silver Dimitrios Senikidis Athletics Men's Shot Put F20 10 September  Silver Panagiotis Triantafyllou Wheelchair Fencing Men's Sabre B 12 September  Silver Athanasios Konstantinidis Athletics Men's Club Throw F31/32 13 September  Silver Grigorios Polychronidis Boccia Mixed Individual BC3 16 September  Bronze Dimitrios Zisidis Athletics Men's Shot Put F32 8 September  Bronze Dimitrios Bakochristos Powerlifting Men's −54 kg 9 September  Bronze Dimitra Korokida Athletics Women's Shot Put F53 12 September  Bronze Anna Ntenta Nikolaos Pananos Grigorios Polychronidis Boccia Mixed Pairs BC3 12 September Multiple medalists Name Sport Total Athanasios Konstantinidis Athletics 1 1 0 2 Grigorios Polychronidis Boccia 0 1 1 2

Medals by sport Sport Total Athletics 3 2 2 7 Powerlifting 1 0 1 2 Swimming 1 0 0 1 Boccia 0 1 1 2 Wheelchair Fencing 0 1 0 1 Total 5 4 4 13 Medals by day Day Date Total 1 8 September 1 0 1 2 2 9 September 1 0 1 2 3 10 September 0 1 0 1 5 12 September 0 1 2 3 6 13 September 0 1 0 1 7 14 September 2 0 0 2 8 15 September 1 0 0 1 9 16 September 0 1 0 1 Total 5 4 4 13 Medals by gender Gender Total Male 5 4 2 11 Female 0 0 1 1 Mixed 0 0 1 1 Total 5 4 4 13

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games:

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.^[6]

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Dorothea Poimenidou	Individual Recurve Open	605	7	Duboc (FRA) L 4-6	Did not advance

Athletics

Men

Track