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Charilaos Vasilakos

1877 - 1964

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Charilaos Vasilakos (Greek: Χαρίλαος Βασιλάκος, November 1875 – 1 December 1964) was a Greek athlete and the first man to win a marathon race. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charilaos Vasilakos has received more than 61,892 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Charilaos Vasilakos is the 169th most popular athlete (down from 142nd in 2019), the 543rd most popular biography from Greece (down from 541st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Greek Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Charilaos Vasilakos ranks 169 out of 6,025Before him are Johan Grøttumsbråten, Albin Stenroos, Robert Shavlakadze, Ralph Craig, Vsevolod Bobrov, and Bernard Morel. After him are Milan Nenadić, Mariya Pisareva, George S. Robertson, Rosemarie Ackermann, James Quinn, and Heike Drechsler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Charilaos Vasilakos ranks 89Before him are George Hackenschmidt, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Titta Ruffo, Charles Coburn, Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, and Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia. After him are Isidora Sekulić, Viktor Dyk, Mohammad Ali Foroughi, Georg Kolbe, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, and Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Among people deceased in 1964, Charilaos Vasilakos ranks 91Before him are Aleksander Zawadzki, Heinrich von Brentano, Otto Ciliax, Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg, Maithili Sharan Gupt, and Francisco Canaro. After him are Bodil Ipsen, Abbās al-Aqqād, Sofoklis Venizelos, Bernhard Goetzke, Eugen Sänger, and Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Charilaos Vasilakos ranks 543 out of 1,024Before him are Lastheneia of Mantinea (-350), Leonidas Pyrgos (1871), Laomedon of Mytilene (-400), Anyte of Tegea (-290), Theodor Kallifatides (1938), and Antigone of Epirus (-350). After him are Krste Misirkov (1874), Louis Dumont (1911), Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851), Georgios Rallis (1918), Eudamidas III (-300), and Georgios Zoitakis (1910).

Among ATHLETES In Greece

Among athletes born in Greece, Charilaos Vasilakos ranks 6Before him are Spyridon Louis (1873), Leonidas of Rhodes (-200), Coroebus of Elis (-800), Theagenes of Thasos (-500), and Stamata Revithi (1866). After him are Dimitrios Golemis (1874), Konstantinos Tsiklitiras (1888), Evangelos Damaskos (1801), Archon of Pella (-400), Miltiadis Gouskos (1877), and Yiannis Kouros (1956).