{{Short description|American pole vaulter (born 1957)}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Greg Woepse | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|03|04|mf=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport | Men's Athletics}} {{Medal|Country | the {{USA}} }} {{Medal|Competition|Pan American Games}} {{Medal|Silver | 1979 San Juan | Pole Vault}} }}

'''Greg Woepse''' (born March 4, 1957)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digilander.libero.it/atletica2/Stagionali/WRL/1983/PV.htm|title = Lista Anno}}</ref> is a retired American track and field athlete, primarily in the pole vault. He is best known for achieving the silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games.

Woepse appears on the American top 10 list three times, his highest rating was number 6 in 1979,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/rankings/men/pvusranking.pdf |title=All-Time U.S. Rankings - Men's Pole Vault |website=trackandfieldnews.com |accessdate=2007-12-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201144108/http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/rankings/men/pvusranking.pdf |archivedate=2007-12-01 }}</ref> which was also the year he graduated from San Jose State University.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1121773/index.htm |title=Gripping the pole at its end, Sergei Bubka broke the world - 02.20.84 - SI Vault |access-date=2012-04-20 |archive-date=2014-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203152600/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1121773/index.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> In his two attempts to make the Olympics he no heighted in 1980 and finished 8th before a near-home crowd in 1984 at the Olympic Trials.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hymans |first1=Richard |title=The History of the United States Olympic Trials – Track & Field |url=http://www.legacy.usatf.org/statistics/champions/OlympicTrials/HistoryOfTheOlympicTrials.pdf |publisher=USA Track & Field |date=2008 |access-date=2019-12-22 |archive-date=2016-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327114422/http://www.legacy.usatf.org/statistics/champions/OlympicTrials/HistoryOfTheOlympicTrials.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Woepse was a pole vaulter at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California. His name surfaces now at the school having coached the successful pole vaulting careers of his children Elizabeth, Greg, Jr., and Michael Woepse, who won the 2012 NACAC U23 Championships.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-13-ss-37123-story.html|title=Archives|website=Los Angeles Times|date=13 March 2001 }}</ref>

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