At a glance
Through our sponsorship of Paralympians and sports events, we support equal access to sports for all, and promote acceptance, respect to diversity and the athletic ideal. This way we create the conditions for equal treatment by society.
Supporting the Greek Paralympians
Since 2005 we have been the proud sponsors of gold medallist Paralympian Grigoris Polychronidis, one of the top Paralympic boccia players since 2018.
In his career, he has so far won 7 Paralympic medals:
- Bronze in Paris in 2024
- Silver and Bronze in Tokyo in 2020
- Silver and Bronze in Rio in 2016
- Gold in London in 2012
- Silver in Beijing in 2008
Moreover, he has been crowned Greek champion 22 times and has excelled in numerous European and world competitions, winning 50 medals in official international sporting events: 21 gold, 12 silver and 17 bronze.
Since 2023 we have also had the honour of supporting gold medallist Paralympian in athletics Nasos Ghavelas. Nasos Ghavelas won the:
- Gold medal in 100m in the T11 category at the Paralympic Games in Paris in September 2024, with a time of 11.02”.
- Gold medal in 100m in the T11 category at the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris in July 2023, with a time of 10.93”.
- Gold medal in 100m in the T11 category at the Dubai World Para Athletics Grand Prix in February 2023.
- Gold medal in 60m in the T11 category at the SEGAS Athletics Indoor Meeting in February 2022, when he broke the world record with a time of 7.07”.
- Gold medal at the European Championship in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and the Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, when he broke another world record in 100m in the T11 category with 10.82”.
Turning our values into action
Since 2022 we have been sponsoring the Student Boccia Championship organised by the Association of Greek Paralympians (SEP), the International Olympic Truce Centre and the Live Athletically initiative of the General Secretariat of Sports.
The goal of Greek Paralympian Grigoris Polychronidis and SEP is to make this championship an institution, so that more students can become familiar with this Paralympic sport. We stand behind this goal, as we believe that sports is a point of convergence where differences are eliminated, and there should be no distinction between sports for people with disabilities and people without.
