Paralympics

On Monday Greece clinched its eighth medal at the Rio Paralympics as Panagiotis Triantafyllou took silver in Wheelchair Fencing Men's Individual Sabre - Category B. Panagiotis fought for gold, in the end losing to Ukraine's Anton Datsko with a final...

The Greek team at the 15th Paralympics in Rio got off to a great start on the first day on Thursday. Thanasis Konstantinidis broke three world records to win the gold medal in the F32 shot put final whereas his...

Ten athletes will represent Greece in the first day, Thursday, of the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Chrysoula Antoniadou, Semicha Rizaoglou and Alexandra Stamatopoulou will represent the white and blue in 100m freestyle swimming. Nikos Gonios, Dimitrios...

The first group of Paralympic athletes who will represent Greece at the 15th Summer Paralympic Games flew to Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. The 2016 Paralympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro September 7-18. President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis...

Syrian refugee Ibrahim al Hussein, who lost his leg during a 2012 bombing, is competing at the Rio Paralympics in September. The Hellenic Paralympic Committee announced that the man who is living, working and training in Greece will be...

By By Justin A. Rice | For the IPC - From the stadion races at the original Olympiads to wrestling in both ancient and modern times, Greeks conjure many Olympic and Paralympic images from a wide range of sports. Skiing,...

Greece’s Boccia team won Portugal with 4-1 and managed the Gold medal in the category Boccia Mixed Pairs in London Paralympics 2012. The team consists of Maria-Eleni Kordali, Nikolaos Pananos and Grigorios Polychronidis. The Greek pair of Nikolaos Pananos and...

Greek athletes won three bronze medals in London Paralympics 2012 on Monday. Swimmer Aristeidis Makrodimitris won the third place in Men’s 100m Free style Makrodimitris earned bronze after finishing third in the 100-meter freestyle S2 final on Monday, clocking...