Founded in 1984,
the company provides results for sports events in various forms
and media, including tv-graphics, info systems, internet etc.
using its own personnel (300 experts all over Greece), hardware
and software by in-situ data collection and on-line processing.
Over the past 27
years, Galanis Sports Data has covered more than 60,000
games and 1,000 international events in all Olympic and most
non-Olympic sports with an average of more than 2,000 games per
year.
Since 1990, the
company provides the official stats for football, basketball,
volleyball in Greece. In addition, Galanis Sports Data
produces the official statistics for the Superleague Football
Championship and provides the graphics to all television
channels within the framework of the TV rights agreement.
Galanis Sports
Data has covered almost all major athletic events which have
been held in Greece including the 9th European
Veterans’ Track & Field Championships (1994), Cosmovolley
(1994), Eurovolley (1995), the VI IAFF World
Marathon Cup (1995), Eurobasket (1995), Junior’s
Mundobasket (1995), WorldBasket (1998), European
Men’s Basketball FINAL FOUR (2000), IAAF Grand Prix
“Tsiklitiria” (1998-2009), the 47th Acropolis
Rally (2000), the 7th Basketball World
Championship for Junior Men (2003), the 29th
European Basketball Championship for Women (2003), the
European Weightlifting Championships (2003), the World
Youth Chess Championships, the FIVB World Tour
(Men-Women) (2004), the European Basketball World
Championship for Junior Men (2006, 2008, 2009), the
European Track & Field Cup (2006), the European Archery
Championships (2006), the Euroleague Final Four
(2007), the European Basketball Championship for Women U16
(2010) as well as the Euroleague games of the Greek
teams.
For the
Athens 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games the company
provided accreditation services, tv-graphics operators, results
managers, athletes biography forms and cabling installation in
all venues.
Outside Greece,
the company undertook the European Women’s Basketball FINAL
FOUR (1996 Sofia – Bulgaria), the European Men’s
Basketball FINAL FOUR (1997 Rome – Italy), the World
Weightlifting Championships (2003 Vancouver – Canada) and
provided graphics operators for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
In 2001, the
company provided stats and graphics on behalf of TELEFONICA and
ORAD in the majority of the Euroleague basketball games
in Europe (Berlin, Wroclaw, Lyon, Kaunas, Gent, Bologna, London,
Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Athens, Thessaloniki), while in football,
the company covered the Cypriot (1997-98), the Israeli
(2001), and the Turkish Championship (2002). In 2008
in Beijing In 2009, in Cyprus, the company covered the 13th
Games of Small States of Europe in 13 sports.
In 2010, Galanis
Sports Data provided results for the Special Olympics
Test Events, and will provide results also for the Special
Olympics 2011 in the summer.
Accreditation
services are provided by
Galanis Sports Data, which has developed an application that
fully covers the needs of the sports organizers, including
circulation studies and maps, and was used with great success in
the European Veterans' Track & Field Championships (1994)
, Cosmovolley '94, Eurobasket '95, Eurovolley
'96, the Centennial FIVB World Congress, the World
Basket Congress '98, Worldbasket '98, Euroleague
Final Four (2000), 65th AIPS World Congress,
Athens Grand Prix “Tsiklitiria” (2000-2009), World
Deaf Championships (2002), World Youth Chess
Championships (2002-2003), FIVB World Tour (2002,
2003, 2005), 7th Basketball World Championship for
Junior Men (2003), ESAKE Cards (2002-2006),
29th Basketball
European Championship for Women
(2003), 74th
Fide Congress
(2003), Olympic Flame Lighting & Handing-Over Ceremonies
(2002-2004-2006-2008-2010), World Modern Pentathlon
Championships (2004), ACNO World Congress (2004), European
Basketball World Championship for Junior Men (2006, 2008,
2009), Euroleague Draw (2006), European Archery
Championships (2006), World
Three-cushion Championship (2007),
Olympic Basketball Tournament
(2008), U16 European Basketball Championships for Junior
Women (2010), etc.
As part of the preparations for the Athens 2004 Olympic
Games, the company undertook the accreditation services for four
Sport Events during the months of July and August 2003
(Canoe Kayak, Rowing, Sailing, Cycling). In
addition, the company undertook the cabling installation for
A.O.B. in all venues, the positions of ATHOC Results Liaison
Managers, ATHOC PRD Coordinators and A.O.B. Graphic Generators
Operators. The company was also responsible for the collection
of the biography forms of both the Olympic Games athletes (in
co-operation with Infostrada) and all the Paralympic Games’
athletes.
Technical analyses based on the processed data are
performed on behalf of various teams and federations. Selected
topics are examined in co-operation with various universities and
conclusions are published. Daily newspapers host articles
presented in popular form on a weekly basis.
Internet
activity includes the
development of a model used for the official WorldBasket ’98
site with on-line full statistics for every match for the first
time in Europe. The site was designed, prepared and handled by
Galanis Sports Data and created a record of 10 million
hits over the period of the games. In addition, the company has
designed and is updating the official sites of Superleague
Greece (www.superleaguegreece.net)
and the Hellenic Basketball Clubs’ Association (www.esake.gr)
with official statistics for all players and teams. The
company has also designed the official website of the Hellenic
Sports Federation for Persons with Disabilities (www.eaom-amea.gr)
while it designs the websites of all competitions the company
covers feeding on-line data and results.
In the past,
Galanis Sports Data
has designed the
official websites of the Hellenic Olympic Committee (www.hoc.gr),
the International Olympic Academy (www.ioa.org.gr),
the Hellenic Weightlifting Federation (www.weightlifting.gr),
the Hellenic Chess Federation (www.chessfed.gr),
etc. The company also develops web-based applications with
games, which use on-line player and/or team statistics during
the course of the games.
Last but not least, Galanis Sports Data designed and
produced multimedia CD-ROMs for Olympiacos Basketball Club, the
Hellenic Weightlifting Federation, World Chess Championships, etc.
Publication
activities include
“SERVICE”, the official monthly newsletter of CEV (European
Volleyball Confederation), which was in circulation from 1993 to
1996, “Hellenic Basketball Report”, a monthly basketball
report servicing NBA teams, as well as the yearly HEBA
Basketball Guide. In addition to the above, the company
prepared the official presentation for the 1998 World Men’s
Basketball Championship. For 11 consecutive years since 1999,
Galanis Sports Data publishes "Sports Dates", a diary
presenting a chronology of the most significant sports events of
the past on a day-to-day basis. Also since 1999, “Galanis
Scouting Report” – a concise guide of Greek Basketball has been
available to all Internet users via the company’s website.
Election service was provided by means of on-line
presentation of results for MEGA Channel in 1991 and Antenna TV in
1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2004.
Galanis Sports Data has
developed a ticketing application, which operates for on and off line ticket sales, monitors the disposal
/ revenues and provides security controls,
visualization of seats, sectors etc.
In parallel,
tailor-made applications for teams and federations
covering all administrative, operational and competition needs,
including Internet applications are provided.
Scouting covers all areas of specialized data and
statistical information analysis and their presentation via the
Internet, CD-ROMs and printed material, on behalf of players /
teams, coaches and the Press.
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