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Robertas Žulpa (20 March 1960 – 30 August 2024) was a Lithuanian swimmer who competed for the Soviet Union during his professional career.
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| Born | 20 March 1960 Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 August 2024 (aged 64) Vilnius, Lithuania[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Žulpa trained at VSS Žalgiris in Vilnius, becoming the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1980.[2] He won a gold medal in 200 m breaststroke with a time of 2:15.85 at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
In 1988, Žulpa emigrated to Italy where he started to coach swimming to 11-year-old boys. Later, he became Italian–Russian translator for various companies. Žulpa spent much of his time in his native Lithuania working as a Lithuanian–Italian translator.
Žulpa died on 30 August 2024, at the age of 64.[3]
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