Robertas Žulpa
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Born | Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union | 20 March 1960|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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)
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Lithuanian male swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of the Soviet Union
- Soviet male swimmers
- Male breaststroke swimmers
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Sportspeople from Vilnius
- Lithuanian Sportsperson of the Year winners
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists in swimming
- Universiade medalists in swimming
- Universiade gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
- European swimming biography stubs
- Lithuanian sportspeople stubs