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====Diaulos====
The [[Diaulos (running race)|diaulos]] was an event contested in the Ancient Greek Olympia that was double the length of a [[Stadion (unit)|stadion]].
[[File:Image from page 318 of "Greek athletic sports and festivals" (1910).jpg|thumb|The [[hoplitodromos]] race was two stades long and run with a shield and helmet. This drawing, from 1910, is based on an original from a Panathenaic amphora from c.336&nbsp;BC.<ref>{{cite web |title=panathenaic amphora; prize/trophy |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1873-0820-369 |website=The British Museum |access-date=29 February 2024}}</ref>]]
As well as standard foot races, in Ancient Greece there was also a sprint race called the [[hoplitodromos]] ('armed ''diaulos'''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scanlon |first1=Thomas F. |title=Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds: Volume 1 Early Greece, the Olympics, and Contests |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |page=213}}</ref>). This required the sprinters to additionally carry a large shield and wear a helmet. Similarly to the diaulos, they ran two stades in length i.e. one stade ending with a 180&nbsp;degree turn around a post, which led onto the second stade in length back down the track.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scanlon |first1=Thomas F. |title=Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds: Volume 1 Early Greece, the Olympics, and Contests |date=2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |page=213}}</ref> In the diaulos, each sprinter had an individual post to run around.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gardiner |first1=E. Norman |title=Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals |date=1910 |publisher=MacMillan |location=London |page=280}}</ref> However, for some hoplitodromos races all of the sprinters ran around a single central post.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gardiner |first1=E. Norman |title=Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals |date=1910 |publisher=MacMillan |location=London |page=289}}</ref>