Panellinios B.C.
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| Nickname | The Club of the Olympic Winners | ||
| Founded | Parent Athletic Club: 1891 Basketball Club: 1929 |
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| History |
Panellinios B.C. Athens (1929 – 2010) Panellinios B.C. Lamia (2010 – 2011) Panellinios B.C. Athens (2011 – Present) |
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| Arena | Panellinios Indoor Hall | ||
| Capacity | 1,700 | ||
| Location | Athens, Greece | ||
| Team colors | Blue and White |
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| Championships |
Greek Championships (6): 1929, 1939, 1940, 1953, 1955, 1957 A2 Championships (2): (1987, 2004) European Championships (2): 1955 Brussels Tournament 1956 San Remo Tournament |
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| Website | panelliniosac.gr | ||
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Panellinios B.C. (Greek: Πανελλήνιος K.A.E.) or Panellinios Basket, is a professional basketball club that is located in Athens, Greece. The club was founded in 1929, making it one of the oldest basketball clubs in Europe.
The name Panellinios can be translated as Pan-Hellenic in English, and can be interpreted to mean "The Greek Nation". B.C. stands for basketball club. So the club's name can be interpreted to mean "The National Basketball Club". The Greek multi-sports club Panathinaikos was founded by Panellinios G.S. athletes. The club was previously owned by the Greek businessman Minos Kyriakou.
The parent athletic club, Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos, was founded in Athens in 1891, making it one of the oldest sports clubs in Europe. It had a team of gymnasts compete at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. The team's leader was Sotirios Athanasopoulos. Members included Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Petros Persakis, Thomas Xenakis, and 29 others. The team placed second out of the three teams in the parallel bars team event, earning a silver medal (retroactively awarded by the International Olympic Committee, as the awards at the first Olympic Games differed from the gold, silver, bronze format used later).
The Greek multi-sport club Panathinaikos was founded by Giorgos Kalafatis in 1→908, when he and 40 other athletes decided to break away from Panellinios Gymnastikos Syllogos, following the club's decision to discontinue its football team. In 1929, the athletic association's basketball department, Panellinios B.C. Athens was founded, and that same year the club won the Athens basketball championship.
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