Event: Timasarchos son of Timocretos from Aegina (Aegina)
Event ID | 5537 |
Person | Timasarchos son of Timocretos from AiginaCORRECT in Achaia |
Festival | Nemea in Argos (Argeia) |
Discipline | combat sports: pale |
Age Category | paides |
Date | -477 - -477 |
Achievement | V |
Comment: | Timasarchos was victorious in the boys' wrestling at Nemea is a member of the Theandridai, who have won at the Olympia, Isthmia and Nemea. He was trained by Melesias of Athens. Timasarchos was also victorious in unnamed games in Athens (Panathenaia, Anakeia or any other set of games in Attica) and in Thebes (Iolaeia according to a scholiast (Drachmann 1927, 68-69, 32) but most probably the Heracleia)(Pind. Nem. 19-21). |