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Panellinios Basket

Panellinios Basket
Panellinios Basket logo
Nickname The Club of the Olympic Winners
Founded Parent Athletic Club: 1891
Basketball Club: 1929
History Panellinios B.C. Athens
(1929 – 2010)
Panellinios B.C. Lamia
(2010 – 2011)
Panellinios B.C. Athens
(2011 – Present)
Arena Panellinios Indoor Hall
Arena Capacity 1,800
Location Athens, Greece
Team colors Blue and White
         
Championships Greek Championships (6):
1929, 1939, 1940, 1953, 1955, 1957
A2 Championships (2):
(1987, 2004)
European Club Championships (2):
1955 Brussels Tournament
1956 San Remo Tournament
Website panelliniosac.gr
Uniforms

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.

(Panellinios G.S. Greek logo.)

(The club's English logo.)

(The club's famous Discobolus seal.)

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).


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