Professional and amateur athletes, performers, and dancers around the world are learning to improvise to continue their training amid coronavirus lockdowns. Photographers in Australia, Germany, France, and New Zealand captured some of these dancers, weight lifters, rowers, cyclists, and more, all trying to stay fit at home using the spaces and equipment they have on hand.
Photos: Staying Fit Under Lockdown
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Australian Olympic canoeist Jessica Fox trains in her swimming pool at her home in Sydney, Australia, on April 18, 2020. Fox has won 26 World Cup gold medals, seven world-championship titles, and two Olympic medals. #
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Isabelle, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, practices in the street next to her home in Paris on April 14, 2020, on the 29th day of a strict lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the new coronavirus. #
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New Zealand weight lifter David Liti trains in isolation on the driveway outside of his home due to the coronavirus lockdown in Te Kauwhata, New Zealand, on April 8, 2020. #
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A performer with the Circo Millennium trains at the site of the circus in Savona, Liguria region, Italy, on April 17, 2020, during a strict lockdown. The Circo Millennium has been stuck in Savona since the beginning of the lockdown. #
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German sabre fencer Anna Limbach trains in her backyard in Cologne, Germany, on April 6, 2020. Limbach normally trains with a partner, but due to the lockdown, she is having to improvise training sessions to stay fit. #
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British ballet dancer Luke Francis, a member of the Leipzig Opera, practices during an online training session at his rental apartment, where he stays confined due to the pandemic, on April 3, 2020, in Leipzig, Germany. #
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Vittoria Oliveri (foreground) plays tennis with Carola on the rooftops of their homes in Finale Ligure, Liguria region, Italy, on April 19, 2020, during the country’s coronavirus lockdown. Every day that Carola, 11, and Vittoria, 13, play tennis with each other on the rooftops, Vittoria’s father recovers any dropped balls in the courtyard below, which she raises with a basket and fishing pole. #
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Sherazade Mami, a 28-year-old Tunisian dancer with the Caracalla Dance Theatre, practices while wearing a mask, on the roof of her apartment building in the Beirut suburb of Dekwaneh in Lebanon, on April 4, 2020. #
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