who was the winner of the first olympic chariot race?
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Some Greek guy who was faster than all the other Greek guys in the race...
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I'm sorry to give you the bad news - I do not believe that these are accessible online.\n\nWebsites such as:\n\nhttp://www.databaseolympics.com/\nhttp://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1948\n\ngive you the medal winners.\n\nI think that you have 2 options: Try to contact someone who has the (paper) results or find a library copy of a UK paper from 1948.\n\nFor the former, I suggest that you try the British Olympic Association (http://www.olympics.org.uk/index.asp) or the National Union of Track Statisticians (http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rsparks/nuts.htm)\n\nFor the latter, you will probably find the full results in The Times.\n\nBest of luck!\n\nHugh.
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fencing was played by the greeks in the olympics, who first introduced it.
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Derek Redmond\n\nNote: A very easy Google: "British 400m Olympics father"
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Ajax.\n\nHe was a hero in the Iliad, "described as the tallest of the Achaeans, second only to his cousin Achilles in strength and bravery."  \n\nquoted from website below.
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The first ancient olympics games were held around 776 BC in athens.....thats the earliest known date.\n\nThe first modern day olympics was held in 1896 at athens.  hope this helps
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The first sport ever was gymnastics in Greece during Greek GOD time.
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Actually, no one really knows who the first boat was made by but here's some useful info about it.\n\nhttp://www.ancientworlds.net/23986
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OK, it breaks down like this:\n\nIn 1904, George Poage became the first "black runner" to win an Olympic medal, a bronze in the 400 metres hurdles, but on the same day Joseph Stadler became the first "black athlete to win an Olympic medal", with a silver in the standing high jump behind the great Ray Ewry. \n\nMany sites still list Poage as being the first...
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Not the Ancient Greeks, if this Wikipedia entry is correct:\n\nThe 1928 Games were the first true Winter Olympics, held on its own, and not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics. The preceding 1924 Winter Olympics were retroactively renamed into Winter Olympics. They were actually part of the 1924 Summer Olympics. All preceding Winter Events of the Olympic Games were the winter sports part of the schedule of the Summer Games, and not as a separate Winter Games. These games also replaced the now redundant Nordic Games, that were held quadrennially since early in the century.\nContents
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In the Ancient Olympic Games, women were forbidden to take part. Married women were forbidden to even enter the competition areas as spectators. If they were caught, the punishment was death. Therefore, they created their own Games dedicated to the goddess Hera. Hera was the sister-wife of Zeus. The Olympic Games were dedicated to Zeus. \nWhen the Olympic Games were revived in 1896 even the founder himself, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, did not agree with women's participation in the Games. This issue was the topic of much debate between the initial members of the IOC. However, women did not take part in the Games until 1900 in Paris. It was here that Britain's Charlotte Cooper became the first female gold medallist in the tennis singles competition. Only one other sport saw women's participation in 1900, golf. \n\nIn London at the 1908 Games there were 36 women competitors in the figure skating and tennis events. After these Games and a recommendation from the British Olympic Association that women swimmers, divers and gymnasts be allowed to compete in future Games, the Swedish Organising Committee included two swimming events and one diving contest for women at the 1912 Stockholm Games. \n\nFinally, in 1924 the IOC decided to allow a larger participation of women in the Games. However, there was little evidence of this even by the 1936 Games in Berlin where there were only four sports available to women. \n\nIt was not until after the 1948 Games in London that there was a clearly marked increase in the participation of women in sport around the world. Nevertheless, there were only 5 women's sports in London and 6 sports by the 1968 Games in Mexico. \n\nAfter the 1976 Games, finally a large increase in the number of sports offered to women began to appear. At the 1996 Atlanta Games there were 26 sports and 97 events open to women, which is still far below the 163 events open to men. \n\nHighlights (Source: The Olympic Education Kit, Australian Olympic Committee) \n\n1896 At the first Olympic Games, a Greek woman called Melpomene became the first female to run an unofficial marathon in 4 hours and 30 minutes. \n1900 Tennis player Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain became the first female Olympic champion in the tennis singles. \n1908 Yachtswoman, Frances Clytie Rivett-Carnac and her husband win gold, making her the first woman in any event to win in a competition with men. \n1912 Swimmer, Fanny Durack first woman to win gold in a world-record time. \n1928 The collapse of several runners at the end of the 800m saw the race declared dangerous for women and banned. \n1948 Triumphant Fanny Blakers-Koen of the Netherlands breaks new ground as the first mother successful at the Olympic Games. She won four gold medals in the 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay and 100m hurdles. \n1952 The first women ever to compete in equestrian sport (against men). \n1956 The first woman, Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo (Italy), in Olympic history to take the athletes' oath at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games. \n1968 Mexico's Enriqueta Basilio becomes the first woman to light the Olympic flame in the stadium. The 800m women's event is re-instated. \n1972 70 year old British equestrian competitor, Lorna Johnstone became the oldest ever female Olympian. \n1973 The IOC decided that women could be proposed as IOC members. \n1980 The greatest mother-daughter Olympic success - when Soviet runner Irin Nazarova, daughter of 1952 discus medallist Elizabeth Bagrinaseva, won gold in the relay. \n1981 Pirjo Haggman (Finland) and Flor Isava-Fonseca (Venezuela) became the first women IOC members. \n1982 Dame Mary Glen-Haig (Great Britain) was elected member of the IOC. \n1984 Princess Nora of Liechtenstein was elected member of the IOC. Joan Benoit (USA) wins the first women's Olympic marathon. \n1988 HRH the Princess Royal (Great Britain) was elected member of the IOC. Tennis returns to the Games, with the inequitable agreement that f
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1900\nWomen were allowed to participate for the first time\n\nhttp://www.olympics.org.uk/olympicmovement/olympicfirsts.asp
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According to the site listed as a source, (located in the 'Did you know' near the bottom of the page) Denmark's Lisa Hartle was the first female rider to win an Olympic medal in Dressage.\n\nIt also states an interesting fact: She overcame a polio affliction and managed to win the silver medal in two consecutive Olympic Games, in 1952 and in 1956. :-)
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The first Olympics took place in 776 BC at Olympia in the Greek district of Elis, on the banks of the Pinios River on the Greek penninsula.  It was some distance from the urban center of Athens and from other city-states, and most of the time was a sleepy backwater where nothing much happened.  This shows the location.  http://www.gtp.gr/LocPage.asp?id=4347\n\nThe ancient Olympic games were a sacred festival, and all enmities between city-states were suspended for the duration of the games.  A sacred truce held sway during the games.\n\nInitially the Games consisted of nothing more than a footrace, but gradually over time other events were added.  The events were built around the kinds of things that men might have to do in war:  javelin throws, discus, footrace, and the wrestling/fighting matches.  At first the games were deemed to be the test of a warrior and there were no specialist athletes, but over time that changed.  Athletes began to specialize in events, to the point where the all-around athlete of the type haled as the ideal when the games first started was essentially pushed out of competition by the specialists.  \n\nAthletic games were a part of Greek culture even before the Olympics began.  Homer cites the funeral games held during the Trojan war, and even then the tradition of having games as part of a religious celebration wasn't new.  Games of various sorts were held all over the greater Greek territories by all men of Greek heritage.  The Olympics were conceived as a pan-Greek religious festival where people came together to worship and compete.
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torino, italy \n\nThe Ancient Olympic Games were an athletic and religious celebration held in the Greek town of Olympia from (historically) as early as 776 BC to 393 AD. There were 292 Ancient Olympic Games.
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No records are kept on the race of the Olympic medal winners.  If you wanted to take the time to look up each one, then you would need to go to the site below and run a series of searches:
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nike was the god of victory who travelled with Athena, so yea, she inspired warriors