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	Spiridon "Spiros" Louis
		Spiridon "Spiros" Louis (January 12, 1873 – March 26, 1940) was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero.
		Louis was born in the town of Marousi, which is now a suburb to the north of Athens, into a poor farmer's family.
		Third place finisher Spiridon Belokas was later found to have covered part of the course by carriage, and was disqualified, and his place was taken by the Hungarian Gyula Kellner.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/NewSport/SpiridonLouis.html (1160 words)

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		Spiridon "Spiros" Louis (Greek:Σπυρίδων Λούης; January 12, 1873 – March 26, 1940) was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero.
		Louis was born in the town of Marousi, which is now a suburb to the north of Athens, into a poor farmer's family.
		Third place finisher Spiridon Belokas was later found to have covered part of the course by carriage, and was disqualified, and his place was taken by the Hungarian Gyula Kellner.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Spiridon_Louis (1113 words)

	Spiridon Louis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spiridon "Spiros" Louis (greek:Σπυρίδων Λούης; January 12, 1873 – March 26, 1940) was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero.
		Louis was born in the town of Marousi, which is now a suburb to the north of Athens, into a poor farmer's family.
		In 1926, Louis was arrested on charges of falsifying military documents and was imprisoned.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spiridon_Louis (1113 words)

	Chapter 1
		Louis was an instant national hero, and his victory erased all hard feelings about the earlier triumphs of the Americans and other foreigners.
		Spiridon Louis attracted as much attention as anyone, not only because he came to the breakfast dressed in the national uniform of Greece-a narrow jacket, flared fustanella (something like a short skirt), tights, and boots.
		Following the breakfast, Louis was met by his adoring father and the two drove through the streets of Athens, the father revelling in the glory of the son.
	www.marathonguide.com /history/olympicmarathons/chapter1.cfm (1937 words)

	Spiridon Louis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Louis nam tijdens de marathon zelfs nog een pauze in een herberg en dronk daar enkele cognacjes.
		Spiridon Louis was een schaapsherder en woonde in Maroussi.
		Spiridon Louis werd geboren in 1873 en stierf in 1940.
	www.spiridon.nl /louis.html (148 words)

	Spiridon Haltern e.V. Der Verein
		Unter den 25 Männern befindet sich der griechische Hirte Louis.
		Und dann passiert ihm, was ihm bei seinen langen Marschen in den Bergen oft passiert ist Er wird müde.
		Daraufhin tut der Marathonläufer Louis etwas ungewöhnliches, er setzt sich in ein schattiges Wirtshaus an der Straße und kippt ein Viertel Landwein runter.
	www.spiridon-haltern.de /sites/derverein.asp (539 words)

	Virtual School - History - Projects - Olympic Games - 1896 Olympic Games
		But then he began to weaken and the crowd when hysterical when Spiridon Louis, a 24 year old shepherd from the village of Amarousion, a man who had only finished fifth in the official trial, gradually began to catch Flack.
		When Spiridon Louis entered the stadium, women in the VIP stand took off their jewellery and threw it on the track in front of their champion.
		Spiridon was already married and had to refuse the dowry of one million drachma.
	www.eun.org /ww/en/pub/virtual_school/depts/history/projects/olympic_games/1896_olympic_games.htm (960 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		Of course we are not talking about the Olympic champion, who died of a heart attack at the age of 67 in 1940, but the Spiridon Louis who is one of two grandsons of the Olympic Champion.
		Louis’ job was to transport fresh water to Athens.
		Spiridon Louis says that there is quite some interest in the story of his grandfather from foreign media in countries like Germany, Japan or the US.
	www.iaaf.org /news/newsId=27194,printer.html (699 words)

	Uta Pippig \| Take The Magic Step™
		May be this character has helped him winning the marathon”, Spiridon Louis said in an interview with Takis Tsafos, the Greek news correspondent of the German news agency dpa.
		Instead Spiridon Louis said in an interview published in the Vienna paper “Kronen-Zeitung”: “His girlfriend gave him half an orange and shortly afterwards he got a glass of cognac from his future father in law.
		Spiridon Louis says that there is quite some interest in the story of his grandfather from foreign media like Germany, Japan or the US.
	www.uta-pippig.com /site/85-0-news.html?nid=88 (720 words)

	Spiridon Louis - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spiridon "Spiros" Louis (January 12, 1873 – March 26, 1940) was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero.
		The first qualifying race – the first ever marathon race – was held on March 22, and was won by Charilaos Vasilakos in 3 hours, 18 minutes.
		A few weeks before the German invasion of Greece, Louis passed away in his native town of Marousi.
	voyager.in /Spiridon_Louis (1121 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHLETES
		There was no event that the Greek hosts wanted more to win than the 40,000m marathon race, which was created to honor the legend of Pheidippides, who allegedly carried the news of the Greek victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC by running from Marathon to Athens.
		On 10 April 1896, Louis, wearing shoes that had been donated by his fellow villagers, set off from Marathon with sixteen other runners.
		Forty years later, Louis recalled the moments after his victory: "That hour was something unimaginable and it still appears to me in my memory like a dream.
	www.olympic.org /uk/athletes/heroes/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=58143 (183 words)

	SI.com - Ultimate race provides maximum drama - Monday July 5, 2004 10:51PM
		Won by Greek Spiridon Louis the first Olympic marathon in 1896, raced over roughly 40 kms from Marathon in Attica to Athens, was the brainchild of French linguist and historian Michel Breal.
		It was inspired by the tale of Phidippides, who was said to have run from the plain of Marathon to Athens in 490 BC to convey the news that the Athenians had defeated the Persians.
		Louis emerged first from the dust and the heat into the Olympic stadium.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/olympics/2004/07/05/bc.sport.olympics.marathon (876 words)

	Spiridon Louis information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spiridon "Spiros" Louis (January 12, 1873 – March 26, 1940) was a Greek water-carrier who won the first modern-day Marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming a national hero.
		After bearing the standard of the Greek team during the opening ceremonies, he was received by Adolf Hitler and offered him an olive branch from Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic Games, as an, obviously inopportune given the circumstances, symbol of peace.
		A few weeks before the German invasion of Greece, Louis died in his native town of Marousi.
	www.search.com /reference/Spiridon_Louis (1118 words)

	History News Network
		The 1904 Olympic Marathon left the daughter of the president of the United States confused and the city of St. Louis disgraced; it also triggered a cheating scandal and a drug controversy, and almost led to the elimination of the marathon from the Olympic program.
		Spiridon Louis, an obscure shepherd, finished ahead of 16 other competitors and became a national hero....
		They were preceded by a group of horsemen and a small caravan of automobiles, carrying the runners' handlers (coaches), journalists, race officials and police.
	hnn.us /roundup/entries/7013.html (950 words)

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	History of great race filled with myth and magnificence - Sport - www.theage.com.au
		Won by Greek Spiridon Louis, the first Olympic marathon in 1896, raced over roughly 40 kilometres from Marathon in Attica to Athens, was the brainchild of French linguist and historian Michel Breal.
		In the 1904 St Louis race, held in searing heat, New Yorker Fred Lorz reached the stadium first and was acclaimed the winner.
		But when it emerged that Lorz had hitched a ride for about a quarter of the race, another American, Thomas Hicks, was awarded the gold even though he had been revived during the race with strychnine sulphate served in an egg white plus several sips of brandy.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/04/16/1082055646981.html (961 words)

	USATODAY.com - Polias knows what it means to be a Greek marathoner (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He knows the story of Louis, the son of a farmer of modest means.
		Not much was expected of Spiridon Louis at the 1896 Athens Olympics.
		Louis was not among the leaders early in the race, and when he arrived in Pikermi, he inquired about how much ground he had to make up on the leaders.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/columnist/zillgitt/2004-08-26-zillgitt_x.htm (939 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Other sports / Olympics news / Olympics: Ultimate Race Provides Maximum Drama (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Won by Greek Spiridon Louis the first Olympic marathon in 1896, raced over roughly 40 kms from Marathon in Attica to Athens, was the brainchild of French linguist and historian Michel Breal.
		It was inspired by the tale of Philippides, who was said to have run from the plain of Marathon to Athens in 490 BC to convey the news that the Athenians had defeated the Persians.
		Louis emerged first from the dust and the heat into the Olympic stadium.
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/olympics/articles/2004/04/16/olympics_ultimate_race_provides_maximum_drama (484 words)

	Lahore Marathon
		Sometime later, when Louis reached Pikermi, he enjoyed a lavish dinner and expressed his certainty that he would win the race.
		Over the course of the race, after several of the early leaders had to drop out due to exhaustion, Louis gradually started working his way to the front pack and finally entered the stadium as the winner.
		She arrived at the stadium about an hour and a half after Spiridon Louis won the race.
	www.lahoremarathon.com /pages/historicalPerspective.asp (1249 words)

	SPORT
		Their support was rewarded when a Greek shepherd, Spiridon Louis, won the most popular event, the marathon.
		The 1904 St. Louis Olympics organizers repeated all of the worst mistakes of 1900.
		Marathon runners Len Tau and Jan Mashiani, Tswana tribesmen who were in St. Louis as part of the Boer War exhibit at the world’s fair, became the first Africans to compete in the Olympics.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~ksargsya/sport/olymp/ollet.htm (4837 words)

	present
		The enthusiasm and good sportsmanship of the Greek spectators were rewarded when the highlight event, the marathon, was won by a Greek peasant, Spiridon Louis.
		However, a dispute broke out between Chicago and St. Louis, which wanted the Games to be held as part of the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition.
		This change proved to be an awful mistake, as the St. Louis organizers turned out to be even less competent than the Paris organizers.
	library.thinkquest.org /27528/present.htm (3082 words)

	Cool Running :: On the Trail of Pheidippides: Olympic Track and Field at Athens, 1896 and 2004
		Spiridon Louis was victorious in 2:58:50 (24.7 miles), leading an overwhelmingly dominant Greek team to seven of the top eight positions as they finished in Panatheniac (Panathinaiko) Stadium in front of 100,000 wildly celebrating countrymen.
		Spiridon Louis, a Greek shepherd, soldier, and postal messenger, won the first Marathon in dramatic come-from-behind style.
		In 1906, after two disastrous Olympics in the midst of International Expositions in Paris in 1900 and St. Louis in 1904, the International Olympic Committee was thankful to return to Athens for the Intercalated or Interim Athenean Games, held in the same stadium as in 1896.
	www.coolrunning.com /cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm_tools.cgi?print=2091;s=6_1;site=1 (2688 words)

	Boston Athletic Association
		Stylianos Kyriakides survived war and deprivation to race not for gold or glory, but for the betterment of his people and the survival of his homeland.
		Spiridon Louis, also from Greece, is the winner of the first modern Olympic marathon, held in Greece in April 1896.
		"The Spirit of the Marathon" is 12-feet in height and cast in bronze, depicting Kyriakides and his mentor, Spiridon Louis, winner of the first modern Olympic marathon held in Athens in 1896.
	www.bostonmarathon.org /Archives.asp?id=109 (573 words)

	BBC Sport Academy \| Athletics \| Events Guide \| Fancy running 26 miles?
		The long distance race called the marathon was born and was later included in the modern Olympic Games first held in 1896 in Athens.
		However, a local shepherd called Spiridon Louis had other ideas and over took after Flack collapsed and was carried off.
		Another messenger rode on horseback to the stadium and delivered the news to the royal box and Louis had to fight his way through a welcoming crowd.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sportacademy/hi/sa/athletics/events_guide/newsid_4027000/4027037.stm (258 words)

	A marathon from Marathon, again - baltimoresun.com
		Officials claim the 2004 Olympic marathon will follow the "exact" route it did in 1896, when a Greek named Spiridon Louis, at 24, wowed the host nation with his victory.
		Louis became the object of massive gift offerings from Athens merchants, including a Singer sewing machine, and the subject of fairly fantastic tales about his life.
		Anyway, the "exact" route isn't quite exact in 2004, since the race Louis ran was 40,000 meters (slightly less than 25 miles).
	www.baltimoresun.com /sports/olympics/ny-oly29mara0808,0,4040324.story (519 words)

	spiridon louis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Louis, Duke of Savoy, the Duke of Savoy from 1440 to 1465
		Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Hungary from 1516 to 1526
		Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, son of Louis II Louis IV of France, king of France from 936 to 954
	16280-louis.82.geesealaying.com (460 words)

	Olympic History
		The race was won by Spiridon Louis, from the village of Amarousion.
		As he entered the stadium he was greeted by two Greek princes, who accompanied him around the track to the finishing line.
		The 1904 marathon in St Louis saw some of the most colourful competitors in Olympic history.
	www.yebbo.com /sydneyolympic/MARATHON/Olympic_History/olympic_history.html (1727 words)

	Marathon History
		17 runners took part and best of them was a 24-year-old named Spiridon Louis, a shepherd boy who served in the army as a messenger.
		Running with shoes donated by his fellow villagers, Louis took the lead four kilometres from the Panathenaic Stadium and won the race in 2:58.50 seconds, more than seven minutes ahead of second-placed countryman Chanilaos Vasilakos.
		Since then, many athletes, like Emil Zátopek, Ethiopian Abebe Bikila and Joan Benoit Samuelson, who earned her place in history as winner of the first Olympic women's marathon in 1984, were inspired by Louis to run the 42.195 kms course.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/feb/11history.htm (303 words)

	United States Olympic Committee - Going for the gold;
		Twenty-four hundred years after that courier became the first marathon runner, Spiridon Louis of Greece lined up for the first modern Olympic marathon in 1896.
		But, with a final burst of energy, Louis passed Flack, took the lead and finished the race in triumph.
		I predict Athens will repeat Spiridon Louis' achievement this summer, finishing our race in triumph and hosting a celebration that will spark the Olympic movement into the 21st century.
	www.usoc.org /19578_22808.htm (653 words)

	How Louis victory put marathon on the map - Times Online
		Louis proceeded to the stadium tunnel and is said to have drunk two cups of coffee.
		He proceeded to the changing-rooms and was reported to have told the trainer who rubbed him down: “Let me go, I could go on all the way to Piraeus!” Others report that the doctors measured his pulse at 112 to the minute and found that he was neither trembling nor in pain.
		De Coubertin also saw the beginning of the making of the Louis legend as a woman behind him sent her watch to Louis as a present.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/sport/london_2012/article467611.ece (1292 words)

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