Title: Sprint (running)
Content:   The first 13 editions of the Ancient Olympic Games featured only one event—the stadion race, which was a sprinting race from one end of the stadium to the other. The Diaulos (Δίαυλος, "double pipe") was a double-stadion race, c. 400 m, introduced in the 14th Olympiad of the ancient Olympic Games (724BC). Sprint races were part of the original Olympic games in the 7th century B.C. as well as the first modern Olympic games which started in the late 19th century (Athens 1896) featured the 100 meter and 400 meter. Athletes started both races from a crouched start (4 point stance). In both the original Olympics and the modern Olympics, only men were allowed to participate 
Title: Team sport
Content:  and archery being practiced around 6000 BC. The term "athlete", according to mythology, derives from the name of Aethlius, the mythological first King of Elis (the location of Olympia) in Greece. The practice of young athletes carrying flaming torches is also traced to the King of Elis, under whose supervision the games took place; some historians regard this as the first record of Olympic sprint racing. The winner of the race was crowned with a wreath of olive or laurel. In subsequent years monetary attractions were introduced as prize money. The present-day pattern of Olympic Games resembles the practice followed in ancient times. Sprint was the coveted event. The 200 m sprint is known in Greek as "short foot race". The 400 m race is equivalent to two stades and called diaulos in Greek.
Title: Ancient Olympic Games
Content: Running: ; Koroibos of Elis (stadion, traditionally declared first Olympic champion) ; Orsippus (diaulos, first to compete naked) ; Leonidas of Rhodes (stadion, diaulos and hoplitodromos) ; Chionis of Sparta (three-time stadion/diaulos winner and champion jumper) ; Astylos of Croton (stadion, diaulos and hoplitodromos) ; Alexander I of Macedon (stadion) Combat: ; Arrhichion (pankratiast, died while successfully defending his championship in the 54th Olympiad (564 BC). Described as "the most famous of all pankratiasts".) ; Milo of Croton (wrestling, legendary six-time victor: once as youth, the rest in the men's event) ; Diagoras of Rhodes (boxing 79th Olympiad, 464 BC) and his sons Akusilaos and Damagetos (boxing and pankration) ; Timasitheos of Croton (wrestling) ; Theagenes of Thasos (boxer, pankratiast and runner) ; 
Title: Stadion (running race)
Content:  be the winner of an entire Games. Though a separate event, the stadion was also part of the ancient Pentathlon. At the Olympic Games, the stadion (building) was big enough for 20 competitors, and the race was a 200 yd sprint, but the original stadion track in Olympia measures approximately 210 yd. The race began with a trumpet blow, with officials (the ἀγωνοθέται agonothetai) at the start to make sure there were no false starts. There were also officials at the end to decide on a winner and to make sure no one had cheated. If the officials decided there was a tie, the race 
Title: Ancient Olympic Games
Content:  The chariot races also saw the first woman to win an Olympic event, as the winner was deemed to be the wealthy benefactor or trainer that funded the team rather than those controlling the chariot (who could only be male). This allowed for horse trainer and spartan princess Cynisca to be the first female Olympic victor. In 67, the Roman Emperor Nero competed in the chariot race at Olympia. He was thrown from his chariot and was thus unable to finish the race. Nevertheless, he was declared the winner on the basis that he would have won if he had finished the race.
Title: Running in Ancient Greece
Content: The Olympic Games in Antiquity. 2nd ed. N.p.: n.p., 2007. Olympic.org. 5 December 2009. ; "Olympic Sports- Foot Races." The Olympic Games. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 December 2009. ; "Running." The Ancient Olympics. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 December 2009. ; "Running events." BBC History. BBC, n.d. Web. 5 December 2009. 
Title: Running in Ancient Greece
Content:  means of training for warfare. The torch-relay race was added to entertain the crowds. This event was run the night before the ancient Olympic Games began (Olympic Sports - Foot Races). Today we honor this tradition with the Olympic torch. One event that was not ever in the ancient Olympic Games is the marathon. What is called a marathon today gets its name from the 280 mi distance covered by the runner Pheidippides over the course of three to four days from Athens to Sparta and then back to Marathon in 490 BCE. He was sent to gain the help of the Spartans against the attack of the Persian army in Marathon. In 1896, at the first modern Olympics, the very first modern-day marathon 
Title: Ancient Olympic Games
Content:  of Sicyon (pankratiast, notorious for his finger-breaking technique) ; Dioxippus (pankratiast, crowned champion by default in 336 BC when no other pankratiast dared compete. Such a victory was called akoniti (lit. without getting dusted) and remains the only one ever recorded in the Olympics in this discipline.) ; Varastades (boxing, Prince and future King of Armenia, last known Ancient Olympic victor (boxing) during the 291st Olympic Games in the 4th century Equestrian: ; Cynisca of Sparta (owner of a four-horse chariot) (first woman to be listed as an Olympic victor) ; Pherenikos ("the most famous racehorse in antiquity", 470s BC) ; Tiberius (steerer of a four-horse chariot) ; Nero (steerer of a ten-horse chariot) Other: ; Herodorus of Megara (ten-time trumpet champ)    
Title: Olympic Games
Content:  a straight line for 200 steps and called this distance a "stadion" (στάδιον, Latin: stadium, "stage"), which later became a unit of distance. The most widely accepted inception date for the Ancient Olympics is 776 BC; this is based on inscriptions, found at Olympia, listing the winners of a footrace held every four years starting in 776 BC. The Ancient Games featured running events, a pentathlon (consisting of a jumping event, discus and javelin throws, a foot race, and wrestling), boxing, wrestling, pankration, and equestrian events. Tradition has it that Coroebus, a cook from the city of Elis, was 
Title: Sports before 1001
Content: 776 BCE — the original Ancient Olympic Games were first organised, traditionally in 776 BCE, as a panhellenic religious festival for Zeus. The festival was held four-yearly and this time span was called an Olympiad. Sporting events are believed to have been added to the festivities at a later date. They included footraces, javelin contests and wrestling matches. ; 664 BCE, 660 BCE and 656 BCE — Chionis of Sparta was an outstanding athlete in jumping events. ; 6th century BCE — Milo of Croton victorious in six Olympic Games. ; 488 BCE, 484 BCE and 480 BCE — Astylos of Croton was an outstanding athlete in running events. ; 396 BCE and 392 BCE — Cynisca, a Spartan princess, was the first woman to win an event at the Ancient Olympic Games, although she was not allowed to enter the stadium. She owned a successful four-horse chariot racing team that won at successive Olympics. ; 2nd century BCE — the Olympics continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule. ; 393 CE — Emperor Theodosius I outlawed the Olympics as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the state religion of Rome. Events

Question: who won first ancient olympic 200 yard race?
Answer: Coroebus of Elis.