Spyridon Chazapis

Spyridon Chazapis, known as Spyros, was a Greek swimmer born in 1872 on the island of Andros. He took part in the first modern Olympic Games, held in Athens in 1896, and swam in the 100 metres freestyle for sailors, a race whose title shows that it was set apart for seamen. Chazapis placed second among the three swimmers who entered, and Olympedia records the result as a silver medal for Greece. That single Olympic appearance is the whole of his documented sporting career. Olympedia lists his affiliation as Andros and gives no date or place of death, so the end of his life is not recorded in the sources read for this entry. He is one of the small group of Greek competitors who made up the home swimming field at the 1896 Games.