Georgios ROUMBANIS
Georgios Roumbanis was
the 1956 Bronze medal winner of the Pole Vault in Melbourne, with a jump
at 4, 50 m. He was born at 1929 in Tripolis. He started practising Pole
Vault at his 22, being a basketball player and a boxer first. He was an
athlete of Panhellenios G.C. At 1952 he left for the U.S.A. in order to
study and started training with the famous Pole Vault coach Payton Jordan.
Since then, and until 1958, he broke the National Record for Greece 9 times
and he broke twice the European Record. The first was in California at
1957 (4,55 m.) and the second in Munich at 1958 (4,60 m.). He stopped being
an athlete at 1961.
Carrer
Highlights
3rd-
Olympic Games, Melbourne 1956
2
European Records in Men's Pole Vault
2nd-
Mediterranean Games, 1955
6th-
European Games, 1954
4
golden, 1 silver and 1 bronze Balkan medal
3
times Greek Champion
