Venues of the 1896 Summer Olympics

The Venues of the 1896 Summer Olympics consisted of seven venues that hosted events for the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Panathinaiko Stadium was the main venue, hosting four of the nine sports contested. The city of Marathon served as host to the actual marathon and the individual road race events. Swimming made its debut in the Bay of Zea while fencing was held at the Zappeion. Sport shooting was held in Kallithea. Tennis made its debut in Greece at the Athens Lawn Tennis Club, a sport unfamiliar to Greeks at the time of the 1896 Games.

Venues

Venue	Sports	Capacity	Ref.
Athens Lawn Tennis Club	Tennis	Not listed.	^[1]
Bay of Zea	Swimming	Not listed.	^[2]
Kallithea	Shooting	Not listed.	^[3]
Marathon (city)	Athletics (Marathon (sport)), Cycling (Individual road race).	Not listed.	^[4]
Neo Phaliron Velodrome	Cycling (track)	Not listed.	^[5]
Panathinaiko Stadium	Athletics, Gymnastics, Weightlifting, and Wrestling	80,000	^[6]
Zappeion	Fencing	Not listed.	^[7]

The Bay of Zea was used as the swimming venue because the organizers of the Games refused to spend money on constructing a special purpose swimming venue.^[8]

After the Olympics

Four of the 1896 venues were reused as competition venues for the 2004 Games. The

Categories

General

Summer Games

Alphabetical	1–9 – A B C D–E F–G H–I J–K L M–N O P Q–R S T–V W–Z

Sport	Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Diving Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern pentathlon Rowing Sailing Shooting Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water polo Weightlifting Wrestling Demonstration events Discontinued events

Years	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Winter Games

Alphabetical	1–9 – B C–G H–K L M N–R S T–Z

Sport	Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Curling Figure skating Freestyle skiing Ice hockey Luge Nordic combined Short track speed skating Skeleton Ski jumping Snowboarding Speed skating Demonstration events

Years	1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018

Venues of the 1896 Summer Olympics

Athens Lawn Tennis Club Bay of Zea Kallithea Marathon (city) Neo Phaliron Velodrome Panathenaic Stadium Zappeion

^ ^a ^b History of the Athens Lawn Tennis Club. (English) & (Greek) - accessed 3 October 2010.
^ Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Swimming (Men): 100-Meter Freestyle". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 897-8.
^ 1896 Summer Olympic official report. Volume 2. pp. 83-4. Accessed 3 October 2010.
^ 1896 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 86-90, 100-2. Accessed 3 October 2010.
^ 1896 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 74-75, 97-99. Accessed 3 October 2010.
^ 1896 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 31-49. Accessed 3 October 2010.
^ Zappeion history. - accessed 3 October 2010.
^ Lennartz, Karl; Wassong, Stephen (2004). "Athens 1896". In John E. Findling, Kimberly D. Pelle. Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement. Greenwood Publishing Group. . p. 23.
^ Stadia.gr profile of Karaiskakoid Stadium in 1895, 1964, and 2003. - accessed 3 October 2010.
^ 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. p. 324. Accessed 3 October 2010.
^ 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 237, 242, 244. Accessed 3 October 2010.
^ 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. p. 242. Accessed 3 October 2010.
^ 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 1. pp. 116-7.. Accessed 3 October 2010.
^ 2004 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. p. 20. (Listed as Zappeio). Accessed 3 October 2010.
^ Worldportsource.com profile of the Zea, Greece marina. - accessed 4 July 2010.

References

The Bay of Zea is a seaport and marina in the Athens area.^[15] Meanwhile the Athens Lawn and Tennis Club remains popular in Greece and helped expose the country to tennis for the first time.^[1]

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Venues of the 1896 Summer Olympics