Vasileios Reppas Explained

Vasileios Reppas
Fullname:	Vasileios Reppas
Birth Date:	4 November 1988
Birth Place:	Athens, Greece
Weight:	880NaN0
Discipline:	Track
Role:	Rider
Ridertype:	Sprinter
Show-Medals:	yes

Vasileios Reppas (Βασίλειος Ρέππας; born 4 November 1988 in Athens) is a Greek amateur track cyclist.^[1] He has won the men's sprint title at the 2007 Greek national championships, and later represented his nation Greece at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Reppas qualified for the Greek squad in two track cycling events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving a berth for his team based on the nation's selection process from the UCI Track World Rankings. Teaming with Athanasios Mantzouranis and Panagiotis Voukelatos in the men's sprint race, held on the first day of track cycling, Reppas recorded a time of 45.645 and a speed of 59.152 km/h to deliver the Greek trio a tenth-place finish in the prelims.^[2] The following day, in the men's individual sprint, Reppas posted a nineteenth-place time of 10.966 and an average speed of 65.657 km/h for his flying, 200 m opening time trial, narrowly missing out the first round matches by four tenths of a second (0.4).^{[3] [4]}

Career highlights

2004

• Greek Championships (500 m time trial), Novices (GRE)
• Greek Road Championships (ITT), Greece

2005

• Greek Junior Championships (1 km time trial), Athens (GRE)
• Greek Junior Championships (Pursuit), Athens (GRE)
• Greek Junior Championships (Sprint), Athens (GRE)
• Greek Junior Championships (Team sprint), Athens (GRE)

2006

• Greek Championships (Team sprint), Greece
• European Junior Championships (Team sprint), Athens (GRE)

2007

• Greek Championships (Sprint), Greece
• Athens Open Balkan Championships (Team sprint), Athens (GRE)
• Greek Championships (Team sprint), Greece
• Athens Open Balkan Championships (Sprint), Athens (GRE)
• Greek Championships (Keirin), Greece
• Greek Championships (1 km time trial), Greece

2008

• 10th Olympic Games (Team sprint with Athanasios Mantzouranis and Panagiotis Voukelatos, Beijing (CHN)
• 17th Olympic Games (Keirin), Beijing (CHN)

2009

• Greek Championships (1 km time trial), Greece

2010

• 13th UCI World Championships (Team sprint with Christos and Zafeirios Volikakis), Copenhagen (DEN)
• 42nd UCI World Championships (Sprint), Copenhagen (DEN)

External links

• NBC 2008 Olympics profile

Notes and References

1. Vasileios Reppas. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418064413/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/re/vasileios-reppas-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 15 October 2013.
2. Web site: Men's Team Sprint Qualification. Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. 21 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120819213252/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/cycling/resultsandschedules/rsc=CTM401900/index.html. 19 August 2012. dead. dmy-all.
3. Web site: Men's Sprint Qualification. Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. 21 December 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120819213054/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/cycling/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DCTM001900/standings.html. 19 August 2012. dead.
4. News: Hoy, Pendleton top sprint qualifiers. Velo News. 17 August 2008. 16 October 2013.