Charilaos Vasilakos
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Charilaos Vasilakos (Greek: Χαρίλαος Βασιλάκος, 1875 – 1 December 1964)[4] was a Greek athlete and the first man to win a marathon race.[5] He also won a silver medal at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Vasilakos was born in Piraeus, Greece.[4]
On March 22, 1896[6] Greece held the first modern Panhellenic Games. The main purpose of the games was to help the country formulate the team that would compete in the first Modern Olympic Games later the same year. All participants were members of Greek sports clubs. Vasilakos was raised in a mountainous village in the Mani peninsula and already had a reputation as a strong long-distance runner. He won the marathon race with a time of 3 hours and 18 minutes.[4][7][8]
Vasilakos was one of seventeen athletes to start the Olympic race on April 10, 1896. He finished in second place, behind Spiridon Louis, with a time of 3:06.03 as one of only nine finishers. Both races were on 40 kilometre courses rather than the now-standard 42.195 kilometres.[8]
Vasilakos studied law and went on to become a customs director in the ministry of finance. He had a reputation for honesty and integrity. He died in Athens in 1964.[4][8][9]
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(Note: The webpage includes an image gallery, the last image in the gallery identifies Vasilakos as the middle runner.)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(Digital compilation from original title: The Burton Holmes Lectures (Volume 3): With Illustrations from Photographs by the Author, Year:1901, ISBN 9781151940469, on November 6, 2008, University of Michigan)
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (English trans. title: "Returned" to Marathon Charilaos Vasilakos)
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- ↑ Race date:
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- This date is specified as March 10 in some sources as Greece used the Julian calendar at the time. Further notes on article's talk page.
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.(English trans. title: Charilaos Vasilakos: The second "unknown" Olympian at Marathon of 1896)
External links
- Charilaos Vasilakos – the favorite who finished second at the Wayback Machine (archived August 1, 2008), (in Greek translate)
- Olympic Marathon 1896 at sansimera.gr, (in Greek, translate)
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