In the ancient Greek world, the word stadium or stadion referred to a measurement of distance, a foot-race, and the place where the race was held and observed by spectators.
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Timeline
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776 BCEFirst athletic games in honour of Zeus are held at Olympia with one event, the stadion foot race.
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586 BCEFirst athletic games at Delphi.
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580 BCEFirst athletic games at Isthmia.
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573 BCEFirst athletic games at Nemea in honour of Zeus.
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488 BCEKroton of Magna Graecia wins the first of three consecutive stadion races in the Olympic Games.
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330 BCE - 320 BCENew stadium constructed at Nemea.
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271 BCEFinal Games at Nemea.
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261 CELast documented victor at Olympic Games.
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393 CERoman Emperor Theodosius definitively ends all pagan Games in Greece.
