Tags: Olympic Result, Results Of A Sport Competition.
Greece was the host nation of the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens. The number of Greek contestants is commonly cited as 169 but as many as 176 Greeks contested events in all nine sports. The Greeks were by far the most successful nation in terms of total medals with 46 26 more than the United States of America. Nevertheless their number of first-place finishes (10) was one fewer than the Americans’ 11. The Greeks had 172 entries in 39 events.