Famous Victors
In 216 BC: Cleitomachus of Thebes (won wrestling, boxing and pankration on the same day).
Read more about this topic: Isthmian Games
Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or victors:
“How else is the famous short story ‘A study in Abjection’ to be understood but as an outbreak of disgust against an age indecently undermined by psychology.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“The Cossack eats Poland,
Like stolen fruit;
Her last noble is ruined,
Her last poet mute:
Straight, into double band
The victors divide;
Half for freedom strike and stand;—
The astonished Muse finds thousands at her side.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)