Vasileios Reppas ( gr, Βασίλειος Ρέππας; born 4 November 1988 in Athens) is a Greek amateur track cyclist. 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 The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

. Reppas qualified for the Greek squad in two track cycling events at the

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 Athanasios Mantzouranis ( gr, Αθανάσιος Μαντζουράνης; born 11 April 1982) is a retired Greek amateur track cyclist. He has won multiple titles in track time trial (kilo), sprint (individual and team), and Keirin at the Greek ...

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. 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).

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

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 (

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), Copenhagen (DEN)

References

External links

NBC 2008 Olympics profile
* 1988 births Living people Greek male cyclists Greek track cyclists Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Greece Sportspeople from Athens 21st-century Greek people {{Greece-cycling-bio-stub