- Vasilis Papageorgopoulos
Vasilis Papageorgopoulos ( _el. Βασίλης Παπαγεωργόπουλος, born
June 27 1947 inThessaloniki ) is a retired Greek sprinter who won two medals at the European Indoor Championships as well as the bronze medal in 100 meters at the1971 European Championships in Athletics .His personal best time was 10.22 seconds, achieved in August 1972 in
Izmir . This ranks him twelfth among Greek 100 metres sprinters, behindAngelos Pavlakakis ,Aristotelis Gavelas ,Christoforos Choidis ,Alexandros Yenovelis ,Haralambos Papadias ,Konstantinos Kenteris ,Alexis Alexopoulos ,Panayotis Sarris ,Georgios Theodoridis ,Yeoryios Panayiotopoulos andAlexandros Terzian . [http://www.athletix.org/statistics/Balkan_alltime.html All time best Balkan athletes] - The Athletics Site]He first got involved in politics in 1978 when he was elected City councilor of Thessaloniki. He practiced dentistry until 1981, when he was elected as a member of the
Greek Parliament , representing Thessaloniki, for the Conservative New Democracy party. Papageorgopoulos has been, since1 January 1999 , themayor of Thessaloniki.Achievements
References
* [http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Vasilis_Papageorgopoulos Profile]
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