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  2. History of physical training and fitness - Wikipedia

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    Athletes of Ancient Greece widely practiced physical training. However, after the original Olympic Games were banned by the Romans in 394, such culturally significant athletic competitions were not held again until the 19th Century. In 1896 the Olympic Games revived after a gap of some 1,500 years.

  3. Cleondas of Thebes - Wikipedia

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    Cleondas of Thebes was an ancient Greek athlete listed by Eusebius of Caesarea as a victor in the stadion race of the 41st Olympiad (616 BC). [1] Dionysius of Halicarnassus refers his name as "Kleonidas". [2]

  4. Running in Ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Because of his beliefs, ancient Greek athletes ended each workout with a low-intensity cool down. Aristotle observed that athletes who have a rest day should not rest completely but do a mild, low-intensity workout instead. These practices are still in use today because of how well-founded the early principles had been (Stefanović et al. 112).

  5. Leonidas of Rhodes - Wikipedia

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    Competing in the Olympic Games of the 154th Olympiad in 164 BC, the last of the "golden age" of the ancient Games, [4] Leonidas captured the crown in three separate foot races: the stadion, the diaulos, and the hoplitodromos. He repeated this feat in the three subsequent Olympics, in 160 BC, in 156 BC, and finally in 152 BC at the age of 36.

  6. Astylos of Croton - Wikipedia

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    Nothing is known of Astylos' origin. H. W. Pleket claims that he was a nobleman, but there is no ancient evidence for this; David Young argues that it is unlikely that a nobleman would have chosen to represent Syracuse at the Olympics over his home city. [4] He commissioned Simonides for an epinicion and Pythagoras of Samos for a statue in ...

  7. Chionis of Sparta - Wikipedia

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    Frank Zarnowski gives the Olympic foot a value of 32.05 cm, so that Chionis's mark of 16.66 metres (54.7 ft) is longer that the 55 podes achieved by Phayllos of Croton at the Pythian Games — 16.30 metres (53.5 ft) with a Pythian foot of 29.65 cm. [11] In the ancient Olympics, the jump was one of the five components of the pentathlon, an event ...

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  9. Theagenes of Thasos - Wikipedia

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    The Olympian: A Tale of Ancient Hellas by E.S. Kraay, ISBN 1439201676; The Pugilist at Rest: stories by Thom Jones, ISBN 0-316-47302-2; In the 2011 film Warrior (Dir. Gavin O'Connor) Tom Hardy’s character of Tommy Conlon is said to have tried to surpass Theagenes’ record of fighting victories.