(Liste) Events At The Ancient Greek Olympics

More on the pentathlon long jump.

Events at the ancient greek olympics. In the 5th century b c the games were extended again to cover five days. The stade was a major evaluation. There was no marathon race as this was made up for the modern olympics. However in 708 b c wrestling was included. Events such as a footrace a javelin contest and wrestling matches were added later. The ancient olympic games were initially a one day event until 684 bc when they were extended to three days. Pentathlon was the name for the five events in greek gymnastics.

The ancient olympic games were originally a festival or celebration of and for zeus. Running there were 3 running contests in which athletes competed in. The olympiad the first big sporting event in ancient greece. Running jumping wrestling discus throwing and javelin throwing. So they actually had to delay putting the army together to defend the country against the persians. 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 ancient games included running long jump shot put javelin boxing pankration and equestrian events.

The stade diaulos dolichos races. The pentathlon originally was a series of running jumping and discus throwing. There were 4 types of races at olympia. In the ancient greek olympic games the following events took place.