Diadumenos

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What Wikipedia says

The Diadumenos (Ancient Greek: διαδούμενος, romanized: diadúmenos, 'diadem-bearer', the winner of an athletic contest at a games), together with the Doryphoros (spear bearer), are two of the most famous figural types of the sculptor Polyclitus, forming a basic pattern of Ancient Greek sculpture that all present a strictly idealized representations of young male athletes in a naturalistic manner.

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