Medal tables *Purple border colour indicates tournament was held on home soil. Medals by Summer Games Medals by Winter Games Medals by summer sport Medal tables by athlete List of medalists Athletes with most medals The table below lists the athletes that have won more than one Olympic medal while competing for Greece. It does not include medals won for other nations and mixed teams. The athletes are shown in order by the number of total medals won; in case of the same number of total medals they are sorted by gold, silver and then bronze medals. Top medalists The tables below list the top Olympic medalists for Greece, sorted by gold, silver and then bronze medals. Men Women Additional disputed medals of 1896 There is confusion about certain results and medals in the first Summer Olympics of 1896. The Hellenic Olympic Committee, claiming different sources, cites in its website some different results for certain events and some additional medals for Greece, which are contradictory to those appearing in the IOC website. They are cited here separately and are not included in any of the other tables. Summary by sport Aquatics Swimming Greece first competed in swimming at the inaugural 1896 Games, sweeping the top three spots in one event open only to Greek sailors and winning two silver and one bronze medal in international events. Greek swimmers have won only one silver medal since then at the 2016 Games. Diving Greece won a gold medal in Diving at the 2004 Games. Water Polo Greece has won silver medals at the 2004 Games (women's) and 2020 Games (men's). Athletics Greece first competed in athletics at the first Games in 1896, winning the men's marathon. Since then, Greece have won numerous medals in athletics especially from the 1992 Games through to the 2020 Games, in what is Greece's most successful sport at the Olympic Games. Cycling Greece competed in all six of the cycling events at the first Games in 1896, winning one event and taking three second-place finishes. As of 2020, those were still the only cycling medals earned by Greek competitors. Fencing Greece competed in all three fencing events at the inaugural 1896 Games, winning two (the men's master's foil and the men's sabre) and adding a second-place finish in the men's sabre and third-place in the men's foil. However another bronze medal is considered nowadays in the same