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Representing  Greece
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1956 Melbourne | Pole vault |
Georgios Roubanis (Greek: Γεωργιος Ρουμπανης; born 31 July 1929) is a Greek pole vaulter. He was born in Tripoli, Greece. He competed at three Olympic Games. He is the elder brother of Aristeidis.[1] He was named the 1956 Greek Athlete of the Year.
At the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, he won a bronze medal in the pole vault, as he scored 4.50 m (Greek record at the time), on 26 November 1956. In order to attend the Melbourne event, Roubanis lost a semester of his studies at UCLA in the United States. He abandoned athletics in 1961. After studying political economics, he got his master's degree in local self-government. He had worked in the US for 5 years as a management consultant, for a movie company. He had also set up an advertising company and a printing plant. In sports, he served as the president of the Panhellenic Association of Calisthenics and founded several other associations.
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References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Georgios Roubanis Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
External links
- Georgios Roubanis at World Athletics
- Georgios Roubanis at Olympics.com
- Georgios Roubanis at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Georgios Roumpanis at Olympedia
- Giorgos Roubanis at the Hellenic Olympic Committee
- More about him at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 September 2005)
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