Georgios Roubanis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Georgios Roubanis

Greek pole vaulter

Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1929

Place of Birth: Tripoli, Peloponnese Region, Greece

Profession: athletics competitor, pole vaulter

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Georgios Roubanis (Greek: Ge?????? ???µpa???, born August 15, 1929) is a Greek pole vaulter.
He was born in Thessalonica.
He competed at three Olympic Games.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 USA 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.