Panagiotis Papoulias, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Panagiotis Papoulias

Greek male distance runner

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1969

Place of Birth: Athens, Attica Region, Greece

Profession: middle-distance runner

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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Panagiotis Papoulias (Greek: ?a?a???t?? ?ap????a?; born 9 December 1969) is a Greek former track and field athlete who competing middle- and long-distance running events.
His greatest achievement was a bronze medal at the 1996 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
He was a two-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics (1995 and 1997) and also ran at the 1998 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and 1998 European Athletics Championships.Papoulias was a six-time national champion at the Greek Athletics Championships, winning two 1500 metres titles and four over 5000 metres.
He is the Greek national record holder in the 3000 m and 5000 m events with personal bests of 7:44.26 minutes and 13:28.59 minutes, respectively, as well as the Greek record holder for the 10000 m in the M35 category.
He also holds the national indoor records for the 1500 m (3:39.63) and 3000 m (7:43.66).
He was a member of GS Ilioupolis, Olympiacos and AEK during his career.He was a double bronze medallist in the 3000 metres and 5000 m at the 1997 European Cup.
He was the first long-distance medallist for Greece at the European Athletics Indoor Championships and as of 2016, remains the only such Greek athlete.Since September 2016 he is serving as a managing director for Panathinaikos youth academies, the team he is a fan of since childhood, as he stated.