Stylianos kyriakides biography of martin

Greek distance runner (–)

For the Greek sailor, see Stylianos Kyriakidis.

Stylianos "Stelios" Kyriakides (Greek: Στυλιανός «Στέλιος» Κυριακίδης; 15 January – 10 December ) was a Greek Cypriot marathon runner who came first at the Boston Marathon in , with the aim of raising money to provide food and shelter to the Greeks, who were experiencing severe poverty after the Second World War and Greek Civil War.

Biography

Kyriakides was born in the mountain village of Statos, near Paphos, Cyprus on 15 January

The youngest of five children, born prematurely,^[1] he left home to find work and help his poor farming family. Following a variety of jobs he ended up as a ‘house-boy’ for Dr Reginald Cheverton, a British medical officer.^[2] (Cyprus was still under British rule at the time.) A