The second day of the Paris Olympic Games today, Sunday, July 28, includes several Greek entries.
In particular, rowing, swimming and sailing athletes, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari in tennis, are fighting for distinction.
In addition, Panagiotis Gionis in table tennis will make his sixth Olympic appearance, while the Men’s National Water Polo Team also begins its duties.
The Greek program in detail:
rowing
- 11:50 – Women’s doubles qualification (Christina Bourbous/Evangelia Anastasiadou)
- 12:30 Women’s lightweight double skiing qualifiers (Zoi Fitsiu/Milena Kontou)
- 13:20 Men’s lightweight double scull qualifiers (Antonis Papakonstantinou/Petros Gaidatzis)
Swimming
- 12:15 Men’s 400m medley qualifiers (Apostolos Papastamos – row 1)
- 12:56 men’s 100m backstroke (Vangelis Makrygiannis – line 5, Apostolos Christou – line 6)
Navigation
- 1:30 pm First day of the Men’s IQFoil (Byron Kokkalanis)
Ping-pong
- 22:00 Round of “64” Panagiotis Gionis – Edward Lee (Canada)
Water polo
- 22:05 Men’s Group A Romania – Greece (1st round)
tennis
- 13:00 1st round of men’s-women’s doubles (draw to be made) – Stefanos Tsitsipas/Petros Tsitsipas, Maria Sakkari/Despina Papamichael