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'''Sotiris Versis''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Σωτήρης Βερσής, was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[Athletics (track and field)|athlete]] who competed in the [[discus throw]], [[shot put]] and weightlifting.
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'''Sotiris Versis''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Σωτήρης Βερσής), was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[Athletics (track and field)|athlete]] who competed in the [[discus throw]], [[shot put]] and weightlifting.
  
 
Versis was born in [[Athens]] in [[1879]]. He competed for a Greece in the [[1896 Summer Olympics]], held in [[Athens]], in the [[discus throw]] where he won third place with a throw of 28.78m. He also won third place in weightlifting.
 
Versis was born in [[Athens]] in [[1879]]. He competed for a Greece in the [[1896 Summer Olympics]], held in [[Athens]], in the [[discus throw]] where he won third place with a throw of 28.78m. He also won third place in weightlifting.

Latest revision as of 17:31, August 7, 2009

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Sotiris Versis (Greek Σωτήρης Βερσής), was a Greek athlete who competed in the discus throw, shot put and weightlifting.

Versis was born in Athens in 1879. He competed for a Greece in the 1896 Summer Olympics, held in Athens, in the discus throw where he won third place with a throw of 28.78m. He also won third place in weightlifting.

Versis broke the Greek record in the shot put on May 13, 1900 with 11.49m. He broke the Greek record in the discus throw on May 21, 1896 with 29.50m.

He died in 1918 of Asian flu.