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The traditional story relates that Pheidippides (530–490 BC), an Athenian herald, or hemerodrome [3] (translated as 'day-runner', [4] 'courier', [5] [6] 'professional-running courier' [3] or 'day-long runner' [7]), was sent to Sparta to request help when the Persians landed at Marathon, Greece. He ran about 240 km (150 mi) in two days, and ...
The Athens Classic Marathon is an annual marathon road race held in Athens, Greece, normally in early November (the second Sunday of November), since 1972. It also often serves as Greece's national marathon championships.
Vasilakos in the middle, [12] marathon runners in training, 1896 [2] [3] On 22 March 1896, [13] Greece held the first modern Panhellenic Games. The main purpose of the games was to select the team that would compete in the first Modern Olympic Games later the same year. All participants were members of Greek sports clubs.
Marathon (Demotic Greek: Μαραθώνας, Marathónas; Attic/Katharevousa: Μαραθών, Marathṓn) is a town in Greece and the site of the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians.
Spyridon Louis (Greek: Σπυρίδων Λούης [spiˈriðon ˈluis], sometimes transliterated Spiridon Loues; [3] 12 January 1873 – 26 March 1940), commonly known as Spyros Louis (Σπύρος Λούης), was a Greek water carrier who won the first modern-day Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics.
The Alexander the Great Marathon (Greek: Μαραθώνιος Μέγας Αλέξανδρος) is an annual marathon race held in mid-April between Pella (birthplace of Alexander the Great) and Thessaloniki, Greece, since 2006. It is an AIMS-certified race, [2] and its editions of 2010 [3] and 2011 [4] received IAAF Bronze Label Road Race status.
He got by with a little help from his four-legged friends. Thomas Panek, 48, made history on Sunday as the first blind person to complete the New York City Half Marathon, with the assistance of ...
Piraeus, Greece 10 March 1996 European Championships: Stockholm, Sweden Pole vault: 4.90 m Ekaterini Stefanidi: 20 February 2016 Millrose Games: New York City, United States [36] Long jump: 6.91 m Niki Xanthou: 16 February 1997 Meeting Pas de Calais: Liévin, France Triple jump: 14.84 m Hrysopiyí Devetzí: 4 March 2003 Peania, Greece 15.00 m X ...