Vassilios Sillis (; 9 March 1929 – 5 January 2018)Vassilios Sillis' obituary
was a

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athlete and a record holder over 400m in Greece. He was born in

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. As a sprinter he competed in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

and in the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar ...

. He was named the 1954 and 1962

Greek Athlete of the Year The PSAT Sports Awards () are the annual sports awards that are issued by the Panhellenic Sports Press Association (PSAT). The awards are given to the year's top performing individual athletes, in the form of Athlete of the Year awards, and also t ...

. In 2012, he returned his first Greek Athlete of the Year award, which he won in 1954 to the PSAT (Panhellenic Sports Press Association). He stated that he returned the award because he wanted "to return a historical token of an institution that entails the great honour, for any athlete who can be awarded by the Sports Press".PSAT
website, retrieved 9-3-2016 (in Greek)

References

1929 births 2018 deaths Greek male sprinters Olympic athletes for Greece Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Athletes from Athens Athletes (track and field) at the 1959 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Greece Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics 20th-century Greek sportsmen {{Greece-athletics-bio-stub