23+ Events At The Ancient Greek Olympics

There were 4 types of races at olympia.

Events at the ancient greek olympics. However in 708 b c wrestling was included. The classic example is that when the persians invaded greece in the summer of 480 bc a lot of the greek city states agreed that they would put together an allied army but they had a very hard time getting one together because so many people wanted to go to the olympics. The stade was a major evaluation. There was no marathon race as this was made up for the modern olympics. The olympiad the first big sporting event in ancient greece. In the 5th century b c the games were extended again to cover five days. The oldest event is the stadion in which the runners sprinted over the distance of 1 stade 192 m which is the length of the ancient stadium in olympic.

The stade diaulos dolichos races. Pentathlon was the name for the five events in greek gymnastics. Events such as a footrace a javelin contest and wrestling matches were added later. The pentathlon originally was a series of running jumping and discus throwing. More on the pentathlon long jump. Running there were 3 running contests in which athletes competed in. They did however have a grueling event held over 2 to 4 stade with the competitors wearing armor.

So they actually had to delay putting the army together to defend the country against the persians. They also raced over 2 stade race 384 m and a long distance run which ranged from 7 to 24 stades 1 344 m to 4 608 m. The ancient games included running long jump shot put javelin boxing pankration and equestrian events. Running jumping wrestling discus throwing and javelin throwing.