The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens

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1. Story
2. Seventeen athletes from five nations run about 40 km from Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. The Greek water-carrier Spyridon Louis wins in 2:58:50, more than seven minutes clear. The event exists because the French philologist Michel Breal proposed a race commemorating the Pheidippides legend for the revived Games. It is the invention of the marathon as a sport, and its distance is neither ancient nor standard.
3. Knowledge
4. Marathon and the Tumulus of the Athenians
5. Pheidippides
6. Spyridon Louis
7. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
8. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
9. Connections
10. Boston Marathon
11. Pheidippides
12. Spyridon Louis
13. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
14. Marathon and the Tumulus of the Athenians
15. Spyridon Louis
16. Pheidippides
17. The marathon distance (42.195 km / 26 miles 385 yards)
18. Dorando Pietri
19. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
20. White City Stadium
21. Windsor Castle
22. The marathon distance (42.195 km / 26 miles 385 yards)
23. Dorando Pietri
24. London
25. Battle of Marathon
26. Valerios Stais excavates the Tumulus of the Athenians
27. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
28. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
29. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
30. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
31. Battle of Marathon
32. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
33. Histories, Book VI, chapters 105–106
34. Evidence
35. The 1908 Olympic marathon was run on 24 July 1908 from Windsor to the White City Stadium over 26 miles 385 yards, with 55 starters from 16 nations and 27 finishers; Dorando Pietri was disqualified and Johnny Hayes won. V55 verification basis: the Olympedia result page was identified through search and its substance read in summary; the database entry itself was not retrieved.
36. The marathon distance is 42.195 km / 26 miles 385 yards, taken from the 1908 London Olympic course and set as the standard by the IAAF in 1921. V55 verification basis: worldathletics.org was refused by this session's network egress proxy, so the page was read only through attributed search summaries; the 1921 congress minute was not seen.