The current list of ancient Olympic victors contains all of the known victors of the

ancient Olympic Games The ancient Olympic Games (Ὀλυμπιακοὶ ἀγῶνες; la, Olympia, neuter plural: "the Olympics") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and were one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece. ...

from the 1st Games in 776 BC up to 264th in 277 AD, as well as the games of 369 AD before their permanent disbandment in 393 by Roman emperor

Theodosius I Theodosius I ( grc-gre, Θεοδόσιος ; 11 January 347 – 17 January 395), also called Theodosius the Great, was Roman emperor from 379 to 395. During his reign, he succeeded in a crucial war against the Goths, as well as in two ...

. It is based on available modern sources, as well as the older ones such as the writings of

Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to: *Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium'' *Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC *Pausanias of Sicily, physician of th ...

(2nd century AD) and Chronicle of

Eusebius Eusebius of Caesarea (; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος ; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian ...

(3rd century AD).

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The complete number of sports that were carried out in each iteration of the Games is unknown, as is the number of victors that took part in these. Also, the correlation between victors and cities may not always be true, as it was not uncommon during antiquity for some ancient writers to make up or distort an olympic victor's city so that the given city would gain the glory and fame that accompanied an athlete's victory. Up to the 2nd century BC and the beginning of 1st century BC, the athletes were

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, as per the prerequisite for participating in the Games, however starting from the end of 1st century BC more and more

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names appear as a consequence of the Roman rule in the Hellenic world. A measure of the level of uncertainty that exists today with regard to who the majority of the ancient Olympic victors were, is the approximation that from a total of more than 3,500 probable victors in different olympic sports during the ancient Olympic Games, only about 800 of them are known today.

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Hellanodikai The ''Hellanodikai'' ( grc, , literally meaning ''Judges of the Greeks''; sing. Ἑλλανοδίκας Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources
Stephen G. Miller, University of California Press, 2 Aug 2012
Sports in the Ancient World, from A to Z
Mark Golden, Routledge, 1 Jun 2004 * Renson, R., Laummer, M., Riordan J. et al. (eds.), The Olympic Games Through the Ages: Greek Antiquity and its Impact on Modern Sport, Athens 1991. * Young, D.C., The Origins of Modern Olympics: A New Version, International Journal of the History of Sports, 3 (1987), 271–300 * L. Moretti, Olympionikai, i vincitori negli Antichi agoni Olimpici, MemLinc, Roma, 1957; L. Moretti, "Supplemento al catalogo degli Olympionikai," Klio 52, 1970, pp. 295– 303. {{Ancient Olympic winners Ancient Olympic Games . Olympic victors Lists of Olympic medalists Olympic victors

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