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Born | Kranj, Yugoslavia | 17 August 1957
Bojan Ropret (born 17 August 1957 [1] ) is a former Slovene cyclist. He competed for Yugoslavia at the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics. [2]
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