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Dimitrios Veloulis

Greek marathon runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ16549733 ↗
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Dimitrios Veloulis (Greek: Δημήτριος Βελούλης) was a Greek track and field athlete who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics in the marathon. He finished in fifth place.

See also

Greece at the 1904 Summer Olympics

References

External links

Dimitrios Veloulis at World Athletics

Dimitrios Veloulis at Olympedia

Sources

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dimitrios Veloulis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dimitrios Veloulis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.