Greece at the 2000 Summer Olympics Greece at the 2000 Summer Olympics Greece competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Greek athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games.At the closing ceremony, a Greek segment was performed, as the country hosted the next Olympics in Athens Four years later. Greece finished in 17th position in the final medal rankings, with four gold medals and 13 medals overall. Men Greece sent one archer to Sydney. She lost her first match. Men Men's 100 m Men's 200 m Men's 400 m Men's 800 m Men's 400 m Hurdles Men's 4 × 100 m Men's 4 ×
Olympic Games Evangelos Zappas, a wealthy Greek-Romanian philanthropist, first wrote to King Otto of Greece, in 1856, offering to fund a permanent revival of the Olympic Games. Zappas sponsored the first Olympic Games in 1859, which was held in an Athens city square. Athletes participated from Greece and the Ottoman Empire. Zappas funded the restoration of the ancient Panathenaic Stadium so that it could host all future Olympic Games. The stadium hosted Olympics in 1870 and 1875. Thirty thousand spectators attended that Games in 1870, though no official attendance records are available for the 1875 Games. In 1890, after attending the Olympian