He was the winner of the first Modern Olympics marathon competition in 1896.
We don't know who was the first winner of the Olympic games. The Greeks start to record the Olympics in 776 B.C. but the games took place from 1000 B.C. So the first recorded winner was Κόροιβος (Coroebus) a baker from Elis an area in northen-western Greece, very near to Olympia.
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The first event's winner that was decided in the 1896 Olympics, the first 'modern' Olympics, was in the triple jump. The winner was James Connelly of the United States who jumped 13.71 meters or 44 feet 11 3/4 inches.
James Connolly, USA, Triple Jump, 1896.
No...In the ancient Olympics the winner received a olive wreath
Sage Kotsenburg from the United States won the first gold medal at the 2014 Olympics in Men's slopestyle.
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He was the winner of the first Modern Olympics marathon competition in 1896.