Orsippus, from Megara, was a runner who was famed as the first to run the footrace naked at the Olympic games and "first of all Greeks to be crowned victor naked."^[1][2] Others argue that it was Acanthus instead who first introduced Greek athletic nudity. Megara (Greek: Μέγαρα; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an ancient city in Attica, Greece. ... Ruins of the training grounds at Olympia The Ancient Olympic Games were an athletic and religious celebration held in the Greek town of Olympia from (historically) as early as 776 BC to 393. ... Acanthus the Lacedaemonian, was victor in the diaulos and dolixos in the Olympic games of 720 BC and accord­ing to some accounts was the first who ran naked in these games. ...

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1. ^ W. Sweet, Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece, 1987; p.125
2. ^ Pausanias, 1.44.1