Rok Kopitar

Rok Kopitar (born May 5, 1959 in Celje) is a former Slovenian athlete who placed 5th in the 400 m hurdles final at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, competing for Yugoslavia. He won a gold medal in the same event at the 1979 Mediterranean Games in Split.

Kopitar's personal best over 400 m hurdles was 49.11 s, set in 1980, and still standing as a Slovenian national record as of 2008.

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Mediterranean Games champions in men's 400 metres hurdles

1949: Mustafa Batman (TUR)
1951: Armando Filiput (ITA)
1955: Guy Cury (FRA)
1959: Fahir Özgüden (TUR)
1963: Roberto Frinolli (ITA)
1967: Alessandro Scatena (ITA)
1971: Stavros Tziortzis (GRE)
1975: Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA)
1979: Rok Kopitar (YUG)
1983–1987: José Alonso (ESP)
1991: Stéphane Caristan (FRA)
1993–1997: Zid Abou Hamed (SYR)
2001: Periklis Iakovakis (GRE)
2005: Gianni Carabelli (ITA)
2009: Sébastien Maillard (FRA)
2013: Emir Bekrić (SRB)

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