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The marathon race and course is inspired by the Ancient Athenian army run from Marathon to Athens after the Battle of Marathon. [3] Taking from the tradition of the Olympic Torch, the race features the Marathon Flame, which is lit at the Tomb of the Battle of Marathon [4] and carried to the stadium in Marathon before the beginning of each race. [5]
The traditional story relates that Pheidippides (530–490 BC), an Athenian runner, 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 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.
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.
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.
Greece: 2:58:50 OR: Charilaos Vasilakos Greece: 3:06:03 Gyula Kellner Hungary: 3:06:35 4 Ioannis Vrettos Greece: Unknown 5 Eleftherios Papasymeon Greece: Unknown 6 Dimitrios Deligiannis Greece: Unknown 7 Evangelos Gerakeris Greece: Unknown 8 Stamatios Masouris Greece: Unknown 9 Sokratis Lagoudakis Greece: Unknown [1] — Edwin Flack Australia ...
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[13] [14] He is the only Briton to have won the Fukuoka Marathon. [15] In 1969, he ran in the Athens Classic Marathon, which is run over the same course as the original marathon run by Pheidippides. [16] He set a course record, clocking 2:11:07, which was not broken until 2004, when Stefano Baldini broke the record.