Leonidas of Rhodes
Twelve Olympic crowns
Greek runner who swept three races at four straight Olympic Games.
Sprinter, middle-distance man and armoured runner at once — three crowns at each of four Games from 164 to 152 BCE. Twelve in all, a record no athlete touched for two thousand one hundred and sixty-eight years, until a swimmer in Rio.
Famous for
- Twelve Olympic victories
- Swept three events four Games running
- A record that stood two millennia
In Rubicon
Leonidas of Rhodes is one of the historical characters you can play as in Rubicon, a trivia game where you answer in your own words and an AI judge reads what you meant. Leonidas of Rhodes is filed under Sports & Games, and is strongest at Sports & Games.
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