Word: pentathlon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletics practiced at Athens fell under one or the other of six sports: leaping, running, throwing the discus, hurling the javelin, boxing and wrestling. No one but professionals, however, paid much attention to boxing. All these exercises, with the exception of boxing, were combined in the Pentathlon, which took place every year in the gymnasium. The winner was he who won the wrestling, which came last, and had gone successfully through the other events. In these games, leaping was always the first event. In this event a minimum leap was set, and all those failing to cover this distance lost...
...ground was allowed. The second was where the fighting continued on the ground and in which everything was allowed, as strangling, or breaking the joints of one's opponent. In the first kind, three falls meant defeat. This was the only form which was used in the Pentathlon. Boxing was considered a professional sport, and did not enter into the games. They used no gloves, but the hands were bound up in strips of leather, which strengthened the hand and broke the force of the blow. The contestants fought until one held up his hand as a sign of defeat...