Sadness has caused the news of the Greek sport and the family of the track, the news of the death of George Roubanis, at the age of 95. The deceased has been a champion in the jump for a few years, and reached the climax of his great career in 1956, when he won the bronze medal at the Melbourne Olympics.
Giorgos Roubanis was born on August 15, 1929 in Tripoli and his origin was from Stemnitsa Arcadia. He was the trainer Savvas Roubani and brother of basketball player Aristides Roubanis, who also died a few years ago.
He first joined the potential of the Panathinaic Athletic Club and then transferred to the Panhellenic General Assembly. At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, he won the bronze medal in the jump on a 4.50 jump. In 1956 he was awarded the PSAT Athletic Award as the best athlete of the year, and retired from sports in 1961.
Together with Dimitris Thanopoulos he founded the Hellenic Olympic Association in 1985.
Hellenic Olympic Committee: Have a nice trip to eternity great Greek Olympian
And the Greek Olympic Committee with great sadness bid farewell to the top Olympian.
According to her announcement, George Roubanis, who was the older Olympian, won the bronze medal at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne in jumping, with a 4.50 marathon, after a marathon that lasted about 11 hours.
The President of the EEA Mr. Isidoros Kouvelos, expressing the plenary of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, stressed: “We are particularly distressed to the loss of leading champion George Roubanis, a leading and older Olympic champion and the first Olympic Games. Blue -white high on the web of glory! Almost throughout his life, he served sports and Olympism by offering Greece moments of national pride, winning the bronze medal at the 1956 Olympic Games. And after the end of his athletic career he continued to serve the Olympics. Greek Olympians in 1985. He divided the love for sports to thousands of young people in our country and was a shining example of athlete and man. I want to express my condolences to his family and his relatives. Have a nice journey to eternity great Greek Olympian. You will forever belong to the pantheon of the top athletes in our country. ”
Source: skai.gr
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