{"id":1168,"date":"2025-01-15T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/v2web\/spyros-louis-collection-first-greek-olympic-marathon-champion\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T17:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:25:20","slug":"spyros-louis-collection-first-greek-olympic-marathon-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/spyros-louis-collection-first-greek-olympic-marathon-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyros Louis Collection &#8211; First Greek Olympic Marathon Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Museum&#8217;s most important exhibits is the medal of the winner of the first Olympic Marathon in Athens in 1896, Spyros Louis. His diploma for his participation in the race, the &#8220;fezaki&#8221; hat of the traditional Greek uniform he always wore. Copy of the cup awarded to him and sported by Michel Breal. Photos of the era.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" data-id=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/v2web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/metaleio-spyrou-loui-1896-marathon-run-museum.jpg\" alt=\"The Authentic Medal of Spyros Louis\" class=\"wp-image-196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/metaleio-spyrou-loui-1896-marathon-run-museum.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/metaleio-spyrou-loui-1896-marathon-run-museum-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/metaleio-spyrou-loui-1896-marathon-run-museum-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/metaleio-spyrou-loui-1896-marathon-run-museum-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/metaleio-spyrou-loui-1896-marathon-run-museum-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Authentic Medal of Spyros Louis<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"470\" data-id=\"22\" src=\"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/v2web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/spyros_louis2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/spyros_louis2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/spyros_louis2-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cap of the Olympic champion Spyros Louis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"470\" data-id=\"23\" src=\"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/v2web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/spyros_louis3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/spyros_louis3.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/spyros_louis3-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Praise of the 1896 era given to the Olympic champion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"470\" data-id=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/v2web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/spyros_louis4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/spyros_louis4.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/spyros_louis4-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Authentic copy of the Spyros Louis Cup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Museum&#8217;s most important exhibits is the medal of the winner of the first Olympic Marathon in Athens in 1896, Spyros Louis. His diploma for his participation in the race, the &#8220;fezaki&#8221; hat of the traditional Greek uniform he always wore. Copy of the cup awarded to him and sported by Michel Breal.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collections-en","category-19","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marathonrun.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}