Spyridon Louis

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1. Story
2. The Greek water-carrier who won the first modern Olympic marathon on 10 April 1896, running from Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens in 2 hours 58 minutes 50 seconds, more than seven minutes clear of the field. Seventeen athletes from five nations started. His victory was the only Greek win in athletics at those Games and it fixed the marathon in the public imagination as a national and popular event rather than a technical one — which is a large part of why the distance survived at all through the thirteen unstandardised years that followed.
3. Knowledge
4. Spyridon Louis
5. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
6. Connections
7. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
8. The first modern Olympic marathon, Marathon to Athens
9. Boston Marathon
10. Pheidippides
11. Spyridon Louis
12. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
13. Marathon and the Tumulus of the Athenians
14. Spyridon Louis
15. Pheidippides
16. Evidence
17. 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.