Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos

Paraskevopoulos competed in the discus throw, at the 1896 Summer Olympics an event which the Greek public felt that a Greek athlete was sure to win. Indeed, when Paraskevopoulos threw the discus 28.95 metres, it seemed as if he had won the event. The only athlete left to throw was Robert Garrett of the United States, who had been unable to throw the discus any distance in his first two throws. Garrett's final attempt, however, was a good one and sailed to 29.15 metres, relegating Paraskevopoulos to second place.{{cite web|title=Athletics at the 1896 Athina Summer Games: Men's Discus Throw|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1896/ATH/mens-discus-throw.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417175220/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1896/ATH/mens-discus-throw.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=22 April 2017}}

Four years later Paraskevopoulos traveled to Paris, France, to compete at the 1900 Summer Olympics, he entered the shot put and with a distance of 11.29 metres he finished qualifying in fifth place, the final took place the next day, in the final he throw the put 11.52 metres, but this didn't change the positions and he still finished in fifth place as the throws from qualifying also counted towards the final.{{cite web|title=Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's Shot Put|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1900/ATH/mens-shot-put.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174534/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1900/ATH/mens-shot-put.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=22 April 2017}} He also competed in his favoured event the discus throw, in the qualifying he threw 34.04 metres to qualify in fourth place, again he improved his distance in the final when throwing 34.50 metres but again his position didn't change and finished fourth just 10 centimetres behind Richard Sheldon from America, who won the bronze medal.{{cite web|title=Athletics at the 1900 Paris Summer Games: Men's Discus Throw|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1900/ATH/mens-discus-throw.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417172818/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1900/ATH/mens-discus-throw.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=22 April 2017}}

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Category:1875 births

Category:1956 deaths

Category:People from Gortynia

Category:Greek male discus throwers

Category:Greek male shot putters

Category:Sportspeople from the Peloponnese

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Category:19th-century Greek sportsmen

Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Category:Olympic athletes for Greece

Category:Olympic silver medalists for Greece

Category:Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics

Category:Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)

Category:Date of birth missing