Athletics in Ancient Sikyon

Athletics

Sikyonians Olympic Victors

Victor	Event	Year
Tellis	Stadion	708 BC
Myron	Tethrippon	648 BC
Kleisthenes	Tethrippon	572 BC
Bykelos	Boys' Boxing	396 BC
Sostratos	Pankration	364 BC
Sostratos	Pankration	360 BC
Sostratos	Pankration	356 BC
Pythokles	Stadion	236 BC
Aratos	Tethrippon	232 BC
Diodoros	Stadion	140 BC
Boiïtos	Stadion	124 BC
Hypsikles	Dolichos(5000 m)	72 AD
Sphodrias	Pankration	72 AD
Aelius Granianus	Boys' Stadion	133 AD
Aelius Granianus	Diaulos	137 AD
Aelius Granianus	Hoplite foot race	137 AD
Aelius Granianus	Pentathlon	137 AD
Aelius Granianus	Pentathlon	141 AD
Kranaos (or Granianos)	Stadion	145 AD

Bykelos
396 BC

Bykelos, the first Sikyonian to win the boys boxing-match, had his statue made by Kanachos the younger of Sikyon, a pupil of Polykleitos.

Sostratos
380 BC

Sostratos the pankratiast, the so-called Akrochersites, from the unusual style he used. He would grip his antagonist by the fingers and bend them and he would not let him go, until his opponent had given in.
(In Greek hai akrai cheires, hence Akrochersites, the "fingerer").
Sostratos won three consecutive victories at the Olympic games (364, 360, 356 BC), as the inscription on his statue at Olympia indicated.
He also won twelve combined victories, at the Nemean and Isthmian games, and two at Pytho. A victor's statue of him was at Delphi.
Sikyonian coins from 320 BC have a representation of him.