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    the diaulos of which we are certain, however, is on a fragment of a Panathenaic amphora labeled, "I am a diaulos runner"." Golden, pp. 51-52. "Diaulos, "double...
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    hoplitodromos ('armed diaulos'). This required the sprinters to additionally carry a large shield and wear a helmet. Similarly to the diaulos, they ran two stades...
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    Ancient Olympic Games (category Defunct multi-sport events)
    Orsippus (diaulos, first to compete naked) Leonidas of Rhodes (stadion, diaulos and hoplitodromos) Chionis of Sparta (three-time stadion/diaulos winner and...
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  • stadion and the diaulos, foot races of some 200 and 400 meters respectively, were best suited to sprinters, while the hoplitodromos (a diaulos performed with...
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    Palaestra (category Sport in ancient Greece)
    two stadia (the length of the diaulos race, thus modern scholars sometimes refer to this whole structure as a diaulos). The portico on the northern side...
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  • first century CE. The achievement of POLITES of Caria, who won STADION, DIAULOS and dolichos on the same day at Olympia (69 BC), was as remarkable." Miller...
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    excelled in the stadion, a length of one stadium (approximately 192 m); the diaulos, a length of two stadiums (approximately 384 m); and the hoplitodromos...
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    substantial. At Olympia and Athens, the hoplitodromos track, like that of the diaulos, was a single lap of the stadium (or two stades; about 350–400 m). Since...
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  • Olympic Games. In 488 and 484 BC he won the stadion and diaulos; in 480 BC he won the stadion, diaulos, and hoplitodromos. Astylos originally represented Croton...
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  • Eusebius of Caesarea lists Chionis as victor in both the stadion and diaulos races at the 29th, 30th and 31st Olympiads (conventionally dated 664–656...
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