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The athletics department of Panathinaikos A.O. was founded in 1919 by the football players of the team. Amongst its first athletes were Giorgos Kalafatis, Apostolos Nikolaidis, Loukas Panourgias and Michalis Papazoglou. It is the second oldest department of the club operating continuously since its foundation, only behind the football department.
In the 1928 Summer Olympics the athlete of the team, Antonis Kariofilis, became the first Greek to open the parade of nations.
After World War II, a strong team was created with Giannis Lambrou, Rigas Efstathiadis, Antonis Tritsis and others. In the 1960s the great pole vaulter Christos Papanikolaou also joined the team.
Through the next decades Panathinaikos won many Championships, in both men and women, becoming one of the strongest teams in the country. The men's team were Greek champions for 20 seasons in a row from 1955 to 1974, a record for Greek athletics until present day.
Paraskevas Batzavalis
Ademe Cuneo
Aggelos Deligiannis
Konstantinos Gkelaouzos
Ilias Kassos
Christos Kosmidis
Giorgos Loufekis
Kostas Nikolaou
Anestis Papoulias
Christos Papoulias
Konstantinos Poulios
Dimitris Sabanis
Panagiotis Thanasoulas
Dimitris Theodorakakos
Pavlos Tzanavaras
Christina Fouki
Elena Leventaki
Christina Marouda
Alexia Polykrati
Antonia Tsoutsoudaki
Glykeria Tziatzia
Greek Championship, Men: (23): 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1989, 1990
Greek Indoor Championship, Men: (3): 1986, 1989, 1990
Greek Cross Country Championship, Men: (27) (record): 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2012, 2016
Greek Championship, Women: (3): 1946, 1947, 1949
Greek Cross Country Championship, Women: (6): 1949, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2017
Renos Fragoudis
Stylianos Kyriakides
Hrysopiyi Devetzi
Rigas Efstathiadis
Panagiotis Fotiou
Giannis Kabadellis
Aris Karageorgos
Antonis Kariofilis
Giannis Lambrou
Alexandra Papageorgiou
Christos Papanikolaou
Michalis Papazoglou
Hristos Polihroniou
Konstantinos Poulios
Georgios Roubanis
Antonis Tritsis
Stavros Tsitouras
Nikos Vouzis
Spilios Zacharopoulos
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