Athletics
Men: Olympic Games 1896 at Athínai (gre)

Marathon
April 10:
1. Spiridon Louis (gre) 2h58:50
2. Charilaos Vasilakos (gre) 3h06:03
3. Gyula Kellner (hun) 3h06:35
4. Ioannis Vrettos (gre)
5. Eleitherios Papasimeon (gre)
6. Dimitrios Deligannis (gre)
7. Evangelos Gerakeris (gre)
8. Stamatios Masouris (gre)
9. Sokratis Lagoudakis (gre)

(only nine competitors finished the race)