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A papyrus list of Olympic victors, 3rd century A.D., British Library The current list of ancient Olympic victors contains all of the known victors of the ancient Olympic Games from the 1st Games in 776 BC up to 264th in 277 AD, as well as the games of 369 AD before their permanent disbandment in 393 by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
21st Olympiad 696 BC - Pantacles of Athens - In 692 BC he also won the diaulos. He was the first winner from Athens and the first runner in history to defend his title four years after his first victory. [2] 22nd Olympiad 692 BC - Pantacles for a second time; 23rd Olympiad 688 BC - Icarius of Hyperesia; 24th Olympiad 684 BC - Cleoptolemus of ...
Coroebus of Elis (Ancient Greek: Κόροιβος Ἠλεῖος, Kóroibos Ēleîos; Latin: Coroebus Eleus fl. c. 776 BC) was a Greek cook, [1] baker, [2] and athlete from Elis. He is remembered as the winner (ολυμπιονίκες, olympioníkes) [3] of the first recorded Olympics, which consisted of a single footrace known as the stade or ...
The Olympic games were held to be one of the two central rituals in ancient Greece, the other being the much older religious festival, the Eleusinian Mysteries. [ 38 ] Participation in the Olympic Games was reserved for freeborn Greek men, although there were also Greek women who were victorious as chariot owners.
The 2028 Olympics will be the third held in Los Angeles. The city hosted its first ever Games in 1932, and then again in 1984. Atlanta hosted the 1996 Olympics, which were the last Summer Games ...
The first poster to announce the games using this term was the one for the 1932 Summer Olympics, in Los Angeles, using the phrase: Call to the games of the Xth Olympiad. The modern Olympiad is a period of four years: the first Olympiad started on 1 January 1896, and an Olympiad starts on 1 January of the years evenly divisible by four.
Los Angeles has already hosted two Olympics, in 1932 and 1984, leaving enough infrastructure in place that there won’t be any new permanent venues built for 2028, and athletes will be housed at ...
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