15 Facts About Grigoris Lambrakis

Grigoris Lambrakis was a Greek politician, physician, athlete, and lecturer.

Grigoris Lambrakis participated in track and field sports and was a member of the faculty of the School of Medicine at the University of Athens.

Grigoris Lambrakis held the Greek record for long jump for twenty-three years.

Grigoris Lambrakis earned several gold medals in the Balkan Games, which took place annually, featuring competitors from Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey.

Grigoris Lambrakis competed in the men's long jump and the men's triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Grigoris Lambrakis used the revenue from these games to fund public food-banks for the starving population.

Grigoris Lambrakis continued to help the poor by running a small private clinic for patients who were unable to afford medical care.

Grigoris Lambrakis was actively involved in the pacifist movement of his time, which voiced strong opposition to the First Indochina War and the Second American War in Vietnam.

Grigoris Lambrakis was elected to the Hellenic Parliament in the 1961 Greek legislative election as a Piraeus MP.

Grigoris Lambrakis suffered brain injuries and died in the hospital five days later, on.

The assassination of Lambrakis initiated an enormous popular reaction, and soon after, investigator Christos Sartzetakis, district attorney Nikos Athanasopoulos and attorney general P Delaportas uncovered connections of the police and army, including the Gendarmerie commander for Northern Greece, Konstantinos Mitsou, and various local police officers, like Kapelonis and Katsoulis, to far-right extremists.

The events that followed the assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis led to rapid political developments.

In 1966 a 'Greek Democratic Youth of Australia Grigoris Lambrakis' was formed in all capitals of the States of Australia by young Greek workers and students.

The life and death of Grigoris Lambrakis inspired the author Vassilis Vassilikos to write the political novel "Z".

Grigoris Lambrakis remained in the hearts of the Greek people as a national symbol of democracy, representing the struggle against political repression, Royal Court scandal, and international dependence.