Olympics host the first competitive marathon In this photo ... rowers Alfred Jäger and Berthold Küttner traveled to Athens for the 1896 Olympics only for their event to be canceled.

open image in gallery The glass statue of ‘Dromeas’ – or ‘Runner’ – in Athens: the 1896 marathon ... any other Olympic Games. Louis had run the first sub-three-hour marathon and ...

who in 490 B.C. ran to Athens to deliver news of the victory in the Battle of Marathon before dying. By April 10, 1896, the day of the first Olympic marathon, the hosts were reeling from their losses ...

The first Olympics of the modern era began on April 6, 1896, in Athens. It was the first successful ... who became the first marathon champion at the games with a time of 2:58:50.

Little could its 241 contestants have envisaged the extent of the history they were making when they gathered to mark the opening of the 1896 Olympic ... ancient Athens Olympiads, the first ...

LONDON (AP) -- A silver cup awarded to the Greek runner who won the first Olympic marathon in 1896 will be sold at ... by Greece's King George I for his Athens victory in the 25-mile race ...

LONDON - A silver cup awarded to the Greek runner who won the first Olympic marathon in 1896 will be sold at a ... by Greece's King George I for his Athens victory in the 25-mile race — slightly ...

A few months later, as early planning for the 1896 Games, in Athens ... (As with all events in that first Olympics, only men competed; the women’s marathon was added to the Games in 1984.) ...

On the reverse, the words "First International Olympic Games, Athens 1896," are inscribed in Greek and the edge is stamped "Bronze." Ben Jones, from Mullock's Auctioneers, in Ludlow, Shropshire ...

In 1896, the millennia-old tradition was revived into the modern Olympics. The first ... minister in Athens, threw a picnic party for a group of medal winners. Among the group are marathon winner ...

Here are some of the highlights of the 1896 Olympics in Athens, when Spyridon Louis won the race that would come to be known as the marathon in the first modern revival of the ancient Greek sports ...