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Leonidas of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: Λεωνίδας; born 188 BCE) was one of the most famous Olympic runners. He was acclaimed as the greatest sprinter of all time. Competing in the Olympic Games of 164 BCE, he captured the crown in three separate foot races — the stadion, the diaulos, and the hoplitodromos. He repeated this feat in the next three subsequent Olympics, in 160 BCE, in 156 BCE, and finally in 152 BCE at the age of 36. Leonidas's lifetime record of twelve Olympic crowns was unmatched in not only the ancient world, but all time.
Leonidas was renowned not only for his unsurpassed number of victories but for his versatility as a runner. His favored races required speed and strength in differing degrees; the stadion and the diaulos, 200-yard and 400-yard races respectively, were best suited to sprinters, while the hoplitodromos, a diaulos performed with bronze armor and shield, required more muscular strength and endurance. Philostratus the Athenian wrote in his Gymnastikos that Leonidas's versatility made all previous theories of runners' training and body types obsolete.
Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American competition swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals in three Olympiads. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (18, double the second highest record holders), Olympic gold medals in individual events (11), and Olympic medals in individual events for a male (13). In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps took the record away from fellow swimmer Mark Spitz (7) for the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. Five of those victories were in individual events, tying the single Games record. In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four golds and two silver medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Games for the third Olympics in a row.
Phelps is the long course world recordholder in the 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter butterfly and 400-meter individual medley as well as the former long course world recordholder in the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter individual medley. He has won a total of 77 medals in major international long-course competition, totalling 61 gold, 13 silver, and 3 bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships. Phelps's international titles and record-breaking performances have earned him the World Swimmer of the Year Award seven times and American Swimmer of the Year Award nine times as well as the FINA Swimmer of the Year Award in 2012. His unprecedented Olympic success in 2008 earned Phelps Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year award.
Rhodes (Greek: Ρόδος, Ródos [ˈroðos]) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of land area and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the South Aegean region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Rhodes. The city of Rhodes had 50,636 inhabitants in 2011. It is located northeast of Crete, southeast of Athens and just off the Anatolian coast of Turkey. Rhodes' nickname is The island of the Knights, named after the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, who once conquered the land.
Historically, Rhodes was famous worldwide for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Medieval Old Town of the City of Rhodes has been declared a World Heritage Site. Today, it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe.
The island has been known as Ρόδος in Greek throughout its history. In addition, the island has been called Italian: Rodi, Turkish: Rodos, and Ladino: Rodi or Rodes.
Leonidas I (/liːˈɒn.ᵻ.dəs/ lee-ON-i-dəs or /liː.əˈnaɪ.dəs/; Doric: Λεωνίδας [leɔːnídas], Leōnidas; Ionic Greek: Λεωνίδης, Leōnidēs; died 480 BC), was a Greek warrior king of the Greek city-state of Sparta. He led the Spartan forces during the Second Persian War and is remembered for his death at the Battle of Thermopylae. Leonidas was the third son of Anaxandridas II of Sparta, and thus belonged to the Agiad dynasty, who claimed descent from the hero Heracles.
According to Herodotus, Leonidas' mother was not only his father's wife but also his niece and had been barren for so long that the ephors, the five annually elected administrators of the Spartan constitution, tried to prevail upon King Anaxandridas to set her aside and take another wife. Anaxandridas refused, claiming his wife was blameless, whereupon the ephors agreed to allow him to take a second wife without setting aside his first. This second wife, a descendent of Chilon of Sparta (one of the Seven Sages of Greece), promptly bore a son, Cleomenes. However, one year after Cleomenes' birth, Anaxandridas' first wife also gave birth to a son, Dorieus. Leonidas was the second son of Anaxandridas' first wife, and either the elder brother or twin of Cleombrotus. Because Leonidas was not heir to the throne, he was not exempt from attending the agoge, the public school education which the sons of all Spartans had to complete in order to qualify for citizenship. Leonidas was thus one of the few Spartan kings to have ever undergone the notoriously harsh training of Spartan youth.
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Who is Leonidas of Rhodes? Learn about the man, Leonidas of Rhodes, whose 2,168 year old record of individual Olympics victories was broken by Michael Phelps.
Michael Phelps won his 13th Olympic gold medal Aug. 11, passing Leonidas of Rhodes for most individual gold medals, a record that stood for over 2,000 years
Who, what, why: who was leonidas of rhodes? - bbc news
The greatest Olympic runner of all was Leonidas of Rhodes who won all three running events at each of the four successive Olympiads between 164 and 152 BC. Women competed in foot races at Olympia, but these were not part of the Olympic Games. British Museum curator Judith Swaddling describes the runners.
Michael Phelps has broken a two,000-year-old Olympic record by surpassing the twelve individual titles won by Leonidas of Rhodes. United Nations agency was this contestant whose record has taken 2 millennia to beat, asks Jon Kelly? Phelps contains a total of twenty-two Olympic gold medals, however 9 of those have are available relays - in terms of individual titles he has scarcely passed the best contestant of the traditional world. Leonidas of Rhodes competed in four sequential Olympiads in 164BC, 160BC, 156BC and 152BC and in every of those he won 3 completely different foot races. An contestant United Nations agency won 3 events at one Olympiad was called a triastes, or tripler. there have been solely seven triastes and Leonidas is that the only 1 familiar to own achieved the honour ove...
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For more videos and construction details visit our website http://colossusrhodes.com Colossus of Rhodes PROJECT. This project originates from the ideas, the expectations and the hopes of some young professionals coming from various european countries: Greece, Spain, Italy and United Kingdom. The determined aim is very ambitious: to build a contemporary structure dedicated to the Colossus of Rhodes, considering 21st century standards. The purpose of the project is not to propose a copy of the original statue, 40 meters heigh, but to arouse the same emotions that visitors felt more than 2200 years ago........http://colossusrhodes.com music by Audiomachine - Shadowfall http://audiomachine.com/
Michael Phelps Tied A 2,168-Year-Old Olympic Record ==================================================== Another two golds last night for Michael Phelps, the most decorated American Olympian ever: That makes 21 gold medals in his career, 25 medals overall, and with his win in the 200m butterfly—a particularly personal win, given his loss in that event four years ago—Phelps now has 12 individual wins to bring him into a tie with the late, great Leonidas of Rhodes. Olympic historian Bill Mallon pulled out this beauty of a factoid, and there’s no reason to doubt it: the IOC is good at keeping stats and the Classical and Hellenistic-era Greeks weren’t bad either. Leonidas of Rhodes was a sprinter, apparently one of the best who ever lived, according to the mostly complete Olympic records fir...
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- The Battle of Thermopylae ( Greek: Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, Machē tōn Thermopylōn) was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place simultaneously with the naval battle at Artemisium, in August or September 480 BC, at the pass of Thermopylae ('The Hot Gates'). The Persian invasion was a delayed response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece, which had been ended by the Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. Xerxes had amassed a huge army and navy, and set out to conquer all of Greece. The Athenian general Themistocles had proposed that the allied Greeks block the advance of the Persian army at the pass...
Who is Leonidas of Rhodes? Learn about the man, Leonidas of Rhodes, whose 2,168 year old record of individual Olympics victories was broken by Michael Phelps.
Michael Phelps won his 13th Olympic gold medal Aug. 11, passing Leonidas of Rhodes for most individual gold medals, a record that stood for over 2,000 years
Who, what, why: who was leonidas of rhodes? - bbc news
The greatest Olympic runner of all was Leonidas of Rhodes who won all three running events at each of the four successive Olympiads between 164 and 152 BC. Women competed in foot races at Olympia, but these were not part of the Olympic Games. British Museum curator Judith Swaddling describes the runners.
Michael Phelps has broken a two,000-year-old Olympic record by surpassing the twelve individual titles won by Leonidas of Rhodes. United Nations agency was this contestant whose record has taken 2 millennia to beat, asks Jon Kelly? Phelps contains a total of twenty-two Olympic gold medals, however 9 of those have are available relays - in terms of individual titles he has scarcely passed the best contestant of the traditional world. Leonidas of Rhodes competed in four sequential Olympiads in 164BC, 160BC, 156BC and 152BC and in every of those he won 3 completely different foot races. An contestant United Nations agency won 3 events at one Olympiad was called a triastes, or tripler. there have been solely seven triastes and Leonidas is that the only 1 familiar to own achieved the honour ove...
world history
For more videos and construction details visit our website http://colossusrhodes.com Colossus of Rhodes PROJECT. This project originates from the ideas, the expectations and the hopes of some young professionals coming from various european countries: Greece, Spain, Italy and United Kingdom. The determined aim is very ambitious: to build a contemporary structure dedicated to the Colossus of Rhodes, considering 21st century standards. The purpose of the project is not to propose a copy of the original statue, 40 meters heigh, but to arouse the same emotions that visitors felt more than 2200 years ago........http://colossusrhodes.com music by Audiomachine - Shadowfall http://audiomachine.com/
Michael Phelps Tied A 2,168-Year-Old Olympic Record ==================================================== Another two golds last night for Michael Phelps, the most decorated American Olympian ever: That makes 21 gold medals in his career, 25 medals overall, and with his win in the 200m butterfly—a particularly personal win, given his loss in that event four years ago—Phelps now has 12 individual wins to bring him into a tie with the late, great Leonidas of Rhodes. Olympic historian Bill Mallon pulled out this beauty of a factoid, and there’s no reason to doubt it: the IOC is good at keeping stats and the Classical and Hellenistic-era Greeks weren’t bad either. Leonidas of Rhodes was a sprinter, apparently one of the best who ever lived, according to the mostly complete Olympic records fir...
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- The Battle of Thermopylae ( Greek: Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, Machē tōn Thermopylōn) was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It took place simultaneously with the naval battle at Artemisium, in August or September 480 BC, at the pass of Thermopylae ('The Hot Gates'). The Persian invasion was a delayed response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece, which had been ended by the Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. Xerxes had amassed a huge army and navy, and set out to conquer all of Greece. The Athenian general Themistocles had proposed that the allied Greeks block the advance of the Persian army at the pass...
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