# Greece at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships

Greece is set to compete at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan from 14 to 30 July.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| | Greece men's national water polo team Emmanouil Zerdevas Konstantinos Genidounias Dimitrios Skoumpakis Efstathios Kalogeropoulos Ioannis Fountoulis Alexandros Papanastasiou Georgios DervisisStylianos Argyropoulos Dimitrios Nikolaidis Konstantinos Kakaris Ioannis Alafragkis Konstantinos Gkiouvetsis Panagiotis Tzortzatos | Water polo | Men's tournament | July 29 |

## Athletes by discipline

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Championships per discipline.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Artistic swimming | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Diving | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Open water swimming | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Swimming | 9 | 6 | 15 |
| Water polo | 15 | 15 | 30 |
| Total | 29 | 32 | 61 |

## Artistic swimming

Greece entered 10 artistic swimmers.

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Evangelia Platanioti | Solo technical routine | 252.2400 | 2 Q | 252.5000 | 4 |
| Evangelia Platanioti | Solo free routine | 199.4834 | 3 Q | 205.5459 | 5 |
| Sofia Malkogeorgou Evangelia Platanioti | Duet technical routine | 236.1667 | 7 Q | 238.4784 | 6 |
| Sofia Malkogeorgou Evangelia Platanioti | Duet free routine | 173.0249 | 12 Q | 189.4291 | 10 |

### Mixed

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Maria Alzigkouzi Kominea Eleni Fragkaki Krystalenia Gialama Maria Karapanagiotou Danai Kariori Ifigeneia Krommydaki Sofia Malkogeorgou Lydia Papanastasiou | Team acrobatic routine | 144.1068 | 18 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Maria Alzigkouzi Kominea Eleni Fragkaki Krystalenia Gialama Zoi Karangelou Maria Karapanagiotou Danai Kariori Ifigeneia Krommydaki Sofia Malkogeorgou | Team technical routine | 261.7013 | 2 Q | 259.4729 | 5 |
| Maria Alzigkouzi Kominea Eleni Fragkaki Krystalenia Gialama Zoi Karangelou Maria Karapanagiotou Danai Kariori Ifigeneia Krommydaki Sofia Malkogeorgou | Team free routine | 221.8460 | 9 Q | 232.6396 | 7 |

## Diving

Greece entered 3 divers.

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Theofilos Afthinos | 3 m springboard | 305.60 | 46 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Nikolaos Molvalis | 10 m platform | 346.70 | 25 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Athanasios Tsirikos | 1 m springboard | 240.75 | 54 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Athanasios Tsirikos | 3 m springboard | 235.30 | 64 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Athanasios Tsirikos | 10 m platform | 323.20 | 32 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Theofilos Afthinos Nikolaos Molvalis | 3 m synchro springboard | 262.95 | 24 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Nikolaos Molvalis Athanasios Tsirikos | 10 m synchro platform | 348.45 | 13 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Open water swimming

Greece entered 3 open water swimmers.

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Asterios Daldogiannis | Men's 5 km | 57:46.6 | 30 |
| Asterios Daldogiannis | Men's 10 km | 1:54:10.3 | 25 |
| Athanasios Kynigakis | Men's 5 km | 54:58.6 | 6 |
| Athanasios Kynigakis | Men's 10 km | 1:51:42.1 | 6 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Nefeli Giannopoulou | Women's 5 km | 1:01:48.6 | 27 |

## Swimming

Greece entered 15 swimmers.

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Arkadios Aspougalis | 50 metre breaststroke | 27.23 | 12 Q | 27.50 | 15 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Stergios Bilas | 50 metre butterfly | 23.39 | 17 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Apostolos Christou | 50 metre backstroke | 24.48 | 2 Q | 24.57 | 5 Q | 24.60 | 6 |
| Apostolos Christou | 100 metre backstroke | 54.01 | 19 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Kristian Gkolomeev | 50 metre freestyle | 21.91 | 9 Q | 21.85 | 7 Q | 21.82 | 7 |
| Dimitrios Markos | 200 metre freestyle | 1:48.84 | 31 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Dimitrios Markos | 400 metre freestyle | 3:49.41 | 19 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Dimitrios Markos | 800 metre freestyle | 7:55.72 | 21 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Dimitrios Markos | 1500 metre freestyle | 15:07.61 | 18 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Odyssef Meladinis | 100 metre freestyle | 49.23 | 41 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Apostolos Papastamos | 400 metre individual medley | 4:14.52 | 10 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Apostolos Siskos | 200 metre backstroke | 1:57.40 | 5 Q | 1:58.04 | 12 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Andreas Vazaios | 100 metre butterfly | 53.38 | 38 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Andreas Vazaios | 200 metre individual medley | 1:59.72 | 18 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Andreas Vazaios Apostolos Christou Odyssefs Meladinis Kristian Gkolomeev | 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | 3:15.86 | 15 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Apostolos Siskos Arkadios Aspougalis Andreas Vazaios Kristian Gkolomeev | 4 × 100 m medley relay | 3:42.02 | 20 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Georgia Damasioti | 200 metre butterfly | 2:11.03 | 17 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Theodora Drakou | 50 metre freestyle | 25.12 | 19 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Theodora Drakou | 50 metre backstroke | 28.20 | 12 Q | 27.87 | 11 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Maria-Thaleia Drasidou | 50 metre breaststroke | 31.44 | 27 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Maria-Thaleia Drasidou | 100 metre breaststroke | 1:10.67 | 40 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Eleni Kontogeorgou | 200 metre breaststroke | 2:30.46 | 24 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Anna Ntountounaki | 50 metre butterfly | 26.14 | 12 Q | 25.82 | 9 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Anna Ntountounaki | 100 metre butterfly | 58.12 | 12 Q | 57.79 | 12 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Artemis Vasilaki | 200 metre freestyle | 2:03.92 | 44 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Artemis Vasilaki | 800 metre freestyle | 8:49.61 | 28 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Theodora Drakou Eleni Kontogeorgou Anna Ntountounaki Maria-Thalia Drasidou | 4 × 100 m medley relay | 4:04.99 | 17 | — | — | Did not advance | Did not advance |

### Mixed

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Andreas Vazaios Stergios Bilas Theodora Drakou Maria-Thaleia Drasidou | 4 × 100 m freestyle relay | 3:28.96 | 15 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Apostolos Christou Arkadios Aspougalis Anna Ntountounaki Maria-Thaleia Drasidou | 4 × 100 m medley relay | 3:47.57 | 14 | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Water polo
### Summary

| Team | Event | Group stage | Group stage | Group stage | Group stage | Playoff | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | Final / BM |
| Team | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Greece | Men's tournament | Australia W 13–9 | Kazakhstan W 18–2 | United States W 15–14 | 1 Q | — | Montenegro W 10–9 | Serbia W 13–7 | Hungary L 13–14 | |
| Greece | Women's tournament | South Africa W 24–2 | Argentina W 21–2 | Italy W 16–12 | 1 Q | — | Australia L 8–9 | Hungary L 9–10 | Canada L 12–14 | 8 |

### Men's tournament
#### Team roster

The following is the Greek roster.
Head coach: Theodoros Vlachos
* 1 Emmanouil Zerdevas GK
* 2 Konstantinos Genidounias FP
* 3 Dimitrios Skoumpakis FP
* 4 Efstathios Kalogeropoulos FP
* 5 Ioannis Fountoulis FP
* 6 Alexandros Papanastasiou FP
* 7 Georgios Dervisis FP
* 8 Stylianos Argyropoulos FP
* 9 Dimitrios Nikolaidis FP
* 10 Konstantinos Kakaris FP
* 11 Ioannis Alafragkis FP
* 12 Konstantinos Gkiouvetsis FP
* 13 Panagiotis Tzortzatos GK
* Nikolaos Gkillas FP
* Aristeidis Chalyvopoulos FP

#### Group play

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | PSW | PSL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Greece | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 25 | +21 | 9 | Quarterfinals |
| 2 | United States | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 28 | +20 | 6 | Playoffs |
| 3 | Australia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 39 | 35 | +4 | 3 | Playoffs |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 58 | −45 | 0 | |
| 17 July 2023 10:30 | Report | Australia | 9–13 | Greece | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Adrian-Tiberiu Alexandrescu (ROU), Veselin Mišković (MNE) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Adrian-Tiberiu Alexandrescu (ROU), Veselin Mišković (MNE) |||
| 17 July 2023 10:30 | Report | Power 4 | Goals | Argyropoulos 3 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Adrian-Tiberiu Alexandrescu (ROU), Veselin Mišković (MNE) |
| 19 July 2023 17:30 | Report | Greece | 18–2 | Kazakhstan | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Raffaele Colombo (ITA), Germán Moller (ARG) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Raffaele Colombo (ITA), Germán Moller (ARG) |||
| 19 July 2023 17:30 | Report | three players 3 | Goals | Akhmetov, Ruday 1 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Raffaele Colombo (ITA), Germán Moller (ARG) |
| 21 July 2023 13:30 | Report | United States | 14–15 | Greece | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Frank Ohme (GER) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Frank Ohme (GER) |||
| 21 July 2023 13:30 | Report | Irving 6 | Goals | Genidounias, Papanastasiou 4 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Frank Ohme (GER) |

#### Quarterfinals

| 25 July 2023 15:00 | Report | Greece | 10–9 | Montenegro | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Tamás Kovács-Csatlós (HUN) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Tamás Kovács-Csatlós (HUN) |||
| 25 July 2023 15:00 | Report | Genidounias 5 | Goals | Radović 3 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Tamás Kovács-Csatlós (HUN) |

#### Semifinals

| 27 July 2023 17:00 | Report | Greece | 13–7 | Serbia | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Raffaele Colombo (ITA) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Raffaele Colombo (ITA) |||
| 27 July 2023 17:00 | Report | Argyropoulos, Kakaris 3 | Goals | Jakšić, Rašović 2 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Raffaele Colombo (ITA) |

#### Final

| 29 July 2023 18:00 | Report | Greece | 13–14 | Hungary | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Michiel Zwartt (NED), Vojin Putniković (SRB) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Michiel Zwartt (NED), Vojin Putniković (SRB) |||
| 29 July 2023 18:00 | Report | Genidounias 4 | Goals | Manhercz, Zalánki 3 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Michiel Zwartt (NED), Vojin Putniković (SRB) |

### Women's tournament
#### Team roster

The following is the Greek roster.
Head coach: Alexia Kammenou
* 1 Chrysi Diamantopoulou GK
* 2 Eleftheria Plevritou FP
* 3 Ioanna Chydirioti FP
* 4 Nikoleta Eleftheriadou FP
* 5 Margarita Plevritou FP
* 6 Eleni Xenaki FP
* 7 Eirini Ninou FP
* 8 Foteini Tricha FP
* 9 Christina Siouti FP
* 10 Vasiliki Plevritou FP
* 11 Eleftheria Fountotou FP
* 12 Maria Myriokefalitaki FP
* 13 Ioanna Stamatopoulou GK
* Eleni Elliniadi FP
* Athina Giannopoulou FP

#### Group play

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | PSW | PSL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Greece | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 16 | +45 | 9 | Quarterfinals |
| 2 | Italy | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 63 | 19 | +44 | 6 | Playoffs |
| 3 | South Africa | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 57 | −41 | 3 | Playoffs |
| 4 | Argentina | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 60 | −48 | 0 | |
| 16 July 2023 17:30 | Report | Greece | 24–2 | South Africa | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nicola Johnson (AUS), Darren Spiritsanto (USA) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nicola Johnson (AUS), Darren Spiritsanto (USA) |||
| 16 July 2023 17:30 | Report | Fountotou, E. Plevritou 4 | Goals | Sileno, Zondo 1 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nicola Johnson (AUS), Darren Spiritsanto (USA) |
| 18 July 2023 13:30 | Report | Argentina | 2–21 | Greece | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Adil Aimbetov (KAZ), Nicola Johnson (AUS) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Adil Aimbetov (KAZ), Nicola Johnson (AUS) |||
| 18 July 2023 13:30 | Report | Bacigalupo, Hatcher 1 | Goals | three players 3 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Adil Aimbetov (KAZ), Nicola Johnson (AUS) |
| 20 July 2023 10:30 | Report | Greece | 16–12 | Italy | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Matan Schwartz (ISR) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Matan Schwartz (ISR) |||
| 20 July 2023 10:30 | Report | four players 3 | Goals | four players 2 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nenad Peris (CRO), Matan Schwartz (ISR) |

#### Quarterfinals

| 24 July 2023 18:00 | Report | Greece | 8–9 | Australia | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Jennifer McCall (USA), Sébastien Dervieux (FRA) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Jennifer McCall (USA), Sébastien Dervieux (FRA) |||
| 24 July 2023 18:00 | Report | Xenaki 3 | Goals | four players 2 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Jennifer McCall (USA), Sébastien Dervieux (FRA) |

#### 5–8th place semifinals

| 26 July 2023 15:30 | Report | Greece | 9–10 | Hungary | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Matan Schwartz (ISR), Zhang Liang (CHN) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Matan Schwartz (ISR), Zhang Liang (CHN) |||
| 26 July 2023 15:30 | Report | Ninou 3 | Goals | Garda, Keszthelyi 3 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Matan Schwartz (ISR), Zhang Liang (CHN) |

#### Seventh place game

| 28 July 2023 11:30 | Report | Canada | 14–12 | Greece | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nóra Debreceni (HUN), Nicola Johnson (AUS) |
| Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nóra Debreceni (HUN), Nicola Johnson (AUS) |||
| 28 July 2023 11:30 | Report | Wright 3 | Goals | Xenaki 3 | Marine Messe Fukuoka, Fukuoka Referees: Nóra Debreceni (HUN), Nicola Johnson (AUS) |