Fotis Mavriplis

Fotis Mavriplis ( Greek Φώτης Μαυρίπλης ; born January 31, 1920 in Thessaloniki , Greece ; † March 9, 2012 in Montréal , Canada ) was a Greek alpine ski racer and aeronautical engineer .

Life

Mavriplis studied aerodynamics at the Technical University of Munich and worked as an engineer in Munich before the outbreak of the Second World War . During this time he went on several weekend trips to St. Anton am Arlberg in Austria , where he learned to ski. He later lived there for some time.

In 1948 he started at the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz for Greece in alpine skiing in downhill and combined . He was the only representative of Greece at these Olympics. In the downhill, he finished 101st in a time of 5: 39.1 minutes. He needed two and a half minutes longer for the route than the Olympic champion Henri Oreiller ; Of the participants who reached the finish, only the Spaniard Fernando Armiñán was slower than him. In the slalom of the combination Mavriplis could not reach the goal, which is why he was not placed in this discipline.

Mavriplis later emigrated to Canada, first to Toronto , and later to Montréal, where he made a career as an aerospace engineer. He was the manager of the aerodynamics division at Canadair and Bombardier Aerospace . In 1980 the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute accepted him as a Fellow , and in 1998 he received the McCurdy Award for his services to the Canadian aviation industry.

Mavriplis was married to his wife Linda (née Calder) for 57 years and the couple had three children. His son Dimitri Mavriplis followed in his professional footsteps and is now a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wyoming .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Fotis Mavriplis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
2. ↑ Obituary on legacy.com accessed on September 14, 2015
3. ^ Homepage of Dimitri Mavriplis at the University of Wyoming, accessed on September 14, 2015