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Born | Sparta, Laconia | |||||||||||||||||
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Event(s) | Diaulos and Dolichos | |||||||||||||||||
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Acanthus the Lacedaemonian ( Ancient Greek: Ἄκανθος [1]), was the victor in two footrace events, the diaulos (δίαυλος) and dolichos (δόλιχος), in the Olympic Games of 720 BC. [2] He was also, according to some accounts, the first who ran naked in these games. [3] [4] [5] Other accounts ascribe this to Orsippus the Megarian. Thucydides says that the Lacedaemonians were the first who contended naked in gymnastic games, although he does not mention Acanthus by name. [6]
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