Stamata Revithi was a Greek woman who ran the 40-kilometre marathon during the 1896 Summer Olympics. She was not allowed to enter the Panathinaiko Stadium at the end of the race. She intended to present her documentation to the Hellenic Olympic Committee in the hopes that they would recognize her achievement. According to contemporary sources, a second woman, \”Melpomene\”, also ran the 1896 marathon race.
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Stamata Revithi was a Greek woman who ran the 40-kilometre marathon during the 1896 Summer Olympics. She was not allowed to enter the Panathinaiko Stadium at the end of the race. She intended to present her documentation to the Hellenic Olympic Committee in the hopes that they would recognize her achievement, but it is not known whether she did so. According to contemporary sources, a second woman, \”Melpomene\”, also ran the 1896 marathon race. There is debate among Olympic historians as to whether or notRevithi and Melpomne are the same person. The 1896 Olympic Games were the first held in the Modern era and the most important international multi-sport event Greece had ever hosted. The rules of the Games generally excluded women from competition. The organizing committee ultimately refused her entry into the race because the deadline for participation had expired; however, as historians point out, the organizers promised that she would compete with a team of American women, which never took place.
She ran the race at a steady pace and reached Parapigmata at 13:30:30. Her only witnesses were a teacher, the city magistrate, and the town’s mayor, the mayor and the city police chief. Before starting, she had only signed a statement to testify to the time she had run. She departed from the village of Marathon, Greece, on Thursday, 9 April, where the athletes had already assembled for the following day’s race. On the morning of Friday, 10 April, the old priest of Marathon,. Ioannis Veliotis, was scheduled to say a prayer for the athletes in the church of Saint John. The race was a special race of 40 kilometers invented as part of the athletics program, and based on Michel Bréal’s idea of a race from the city of Marathon to the Pnyx.
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