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Attic kylix with athlete cleansing himself with a strigil, 430-20 BC. The ancient Greeks also valued rest after exercising. After a workout, athletes used their aryballos, a special bottle of oil, and a strigil, which is a curved stick. They would rub the oil on their skin and then scrape it off using the strigil.
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]
Pahlevani and zourkhaneh rituals is the name inscribed by UNESCO for varzesh-e pahlavāni (Persian: آیین پهلوانی و زورخانهای, "heroic sport") [1] or varzesh-e bāstāni (ورزش باستانی; varzeš-e bāstānī, "ancient sport"), a traditional system of athletics and a form of martial arts [2] originally used to train warriors in Iran [3] [4] Outside Iran ...
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.
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 ...
Diagoras of Rhodes (/ d aɪ ə ˈ æ ɡ ə r ə s /; Ancient Greek: Διαγόρας ὁ Ῥόδιος) was an Ancient Greek boxer from the 5th century BC, who was celebrated for his own victories, as well as the victories of his sons and grandsons.
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Tiberius Claudius Patrobius (1st century AD) was an ancient athlete from Antioch in Provincia Syria, who was a 3-time Olympic champion in the sport of wrestling, according to the 207th (49 AD), 208th (53 AD), and 209th (57 AD) Ancient Olympic Games.