Orsippus ( grc-gre, Ὄρσιππος) was a
Greek
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runner from
Megara
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who was famed as the first to run the footrace naked at the
Olympic Games
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and "first of all Greeks to be crowned victor naked."
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*Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
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, 1.44.1. Others argue that it was
Acanthus instead who first introduced Greek athletic nudity. Orsippus won the
stadion of the 15th Olympic Games in 720 BC.
References
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8th-century BC Greek people
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Sportspeople from Attica