Following Friday’s first-ever “floating” Olympic Games opening ceremony – which received mixed reviews – Day 1 of competition at the Paris Olympics kicked off on Saturday with 13 medals up for grabs.
A number of Greek athletes are set to compete on day 1, the first of which is champion rower Stefanos Ntouskos who competed in the men’s single scull preliminaries and came in second, behind New Zealand’s Tom Mackintosh, thereby qualifying for the quarterfinals. Ntouskos won gold in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics (held in 2021), setting a new Olympic record in the process.
Day 1
Following suit are the preliminaries in swimming, artistic gymnastics, shooting and tennis. The day will conclude with the women’s water polo and men’s basketball events.
Notable athletes participating today include swimmer Anna Ntountounaki, shooting champion Anna Korakaki, Greece’s “Lord of the Rings” Lefteris Petrounias, and tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Detailed Event Program 

Swimming

12:02 pm – Women’s 100m butterfly preliminaries – Georgia Damasioti

12:05 pm – Women’s 100m butterfly preliminaries – Anna Ntountoukaki
1:31 pm- Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay preliminaries – Stergios Bilas, Andreas Vazaios, Odysseus Meladinis, Panagiotis Bolanos

If qualified:

9:30 pm – Women’s 100m butterfly semifinals
10:34 pm – Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay final

Artistic Gymnastics

1:20 pm- Rings preliminaries – Lefteris Petrounias

Tennis

1:00 pm – Men’s and women’s singles first round – Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Zizou Bergs (Belgium)

Shooting

1:30 pm – Women’s 10m pistol preliminaries  – Anna Korakaki and Christina Moschi

Water Polo

4:35 pm – Women’s group B, first match: GREECE vs. USA

Basketball

10:00 pm – Men’s group A, first match: GREECE vs. CANADA

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