Antonios Gioulbas (also ''Antonios Gkioulmpas'', ; born April 17, 1986) is a

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former

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

, who specialized in backstroke events. Gioulbas qualified for the men's 200 m backstroke at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

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, representing the host nation

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. He cleared a

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B-standard entry time of 2:01.35 from a test event at the

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. He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including top medal favorite

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of Japan. He touched out Spain's

Aschwin Wildeboer Aschwin Wildeboer Faber (born 14 February 1986 in Sabadell, Spain), known as Aschwin Wildeboer, is a Spanish Olympic backstroke swimmer of Dutch origin. Biography His parents, both born and raised in Netherlands, moved to Spain in 1978 and sett ...

to take a seventh spot by 0.03 of a second in 2:04.30. Gioulbas failed to advance into the

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, as he placed twenty-eighth overall in the preliminaries.

References

External links

2004 Olympic Profile – Eideisis Ellinika
1986 births Living people Greek male swimmers Olympic swimmers for Greece Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Male backstroke swimmers Swimmers from Athens 21st-century Greek sportsmen {{Greece-swimming-bio-stub