Robertas Žulpa
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Born | (1960-03-20) 20 March 1960 (age 64) Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robertas Žulpa (born 20 March 1960, in Vilnius) is a former Lithuanian swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union during his professional career.
Žulpa trained at VSS Žalgiris in Vilnius, becoming the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1980.[1] He won a gold medal in 200 m breaststroke with a time of 2:15.85 at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
In 1988, Žulpa emigrated to Italy where he started to coach swimming to 11-year-old boys. Later, he became Italian–Russian translator for various companies. Žulpa currently spends much of his time in his native Lithuania working as a Lithuanian–Italian translator.
References
- ^ (in Russian) Profile in the Olympic Encyclopedia
External links
- YouTube heat 200 m Breaststroke Olympic Games -80
- Robertas Žulpa at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1908: Frederick Holman (GBR)
- 1912: Walter Bathe (GER)
- 1920: Håkan Malmrot (SWE)
- 1924: Bob Skelton (USA)
- 1928: Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN)
- 1932: Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (JPN)
- 1936: Tetsuo Hamuro (JPN)
- 1948: Joe Verdeur (USA)
- 1952: John Davies (AUS)
- 1956: Masaru Furukawa (JPN)
- 1960: Bill Mulliken (USA)
- 1964: Ian O'Brien (AUS)
- 1968: Felipe Muñoz (MEX)
- 1972: John Hencken (USA)
- 1976: David Wilkie (GBR)
- 1980: Robertas Žulpa (URS)
- 1984: Victor Davis (CAN)
- 1988: József Szabó (HUN)
- 1992: Mike Barrowman (USA)
- 1996: Norbert Rózsa (HUN)
- 2000: Domenico Fioravanti (ITA)
- 2004: Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
- 2008: Kosuke Kitajima (JPN)
- 2012: Dániel Gyurta (HUN)
- 2016: Dmitriy Balandin (KAZ)
- 2020: Zac Stubblety-Cook (AUS)
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