Bilingual, source-checked profiles built from official competition records. Personal or medical narratives are excluded without direct, scoped consent.
Yiannis Kouros’s four Spartathlon wins and his 24-hour, 48-hour, six-day and 1,000-mile world records, sourced directly to spartathlon.gr, the IAU and DUV.
How Stylianos Kyriakides won the 1946 Boston Marathon, became the race’s first charity runner, and brought American relief to postwar Greece.
What is documented about Stamata Revithi’s unofficial 1896 marathon run, and why her link to the runner known as "Melpomene" remains an open dispute.
How Spyridon Louis won the first Olympic marathon in 1896, from Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium, and what he left behind for today’s Athens Marathon.
What Herodotus actually wrote about Pheidippides, what Plutarch, Lucian and Browning added later, and how both halves of the legend live on today.
A sourced timeline of Greek distance-running legends — Louis, Kyriakides, Kouros — linked to today’s verified Greek champions.
Results and key moments from the Athens 2004 Olympic marathons: Baldini's win after de Lima was attacked, Noguchi's win as Radcliffe dropped out at 36km.
From a recorded 152nd place at Elefsina to 13th at the finish: the Spartathlon 2026 women’s winner’s race, section by section, from the official data.
The Othonoi–Santa Maria di Leuca crossing: 91.4km in 31 hours 50 minutes, separating reported facts from official records.
Stamatia Noula’s official marathon and half-marathon performances, sourced to her SEGAS athlete record.
From the 2011 and 2013 world titles to the Rio 2016 Olympic silver medal, based on World Aquatics and Hellenic Swimming Federation records.
Panagiotis Bitados’s official competition snapshot following his win at the 2026 Mediterranean Games.
The 2:33:40 run in Budapest in 1998 and 12th place in Athens in 1997, sourced to official World Athletics and SEGAS records.
The official World Aquatics medal record and world-level results documented by the Greek federation.
Results from the official Spartathlon record and UTMB Index, without unverified personal narrative.
Every result links to a primary source and carries a fact-check date. Photographs, quotations, injuries and private-life material require separate rights or consent.