Leonidas Pyrgos
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Leonidas "Leon" Pyrgos (Template:Langx, born 1874 in Mantineia, Arcadia; date of death unknown) was a Greek fencer.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Pyrgos was the first Greek Olympic medallist in the history of the modern Olympic Games, winning his fencing event of the 1896 Summer Olympics on 7 April 1896.<ref name="sports-reference">Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref><ref>David Wallechinsky (2004), The Complete Book of the Olympics 2004. Aurum Press. p.627.</ref> His competitor in the event, which consisted of a single bout of foil fencing to three touches, was one of the best fencers in the world, the Frenchman Joanni Perronet. After a close contest, Pyrgos won 3–1. The crowd cheered the first Greek Olympic medallist. He was lifted onto their shoulders and carried throughout the streets of Athens.
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- Fencers at the 1896 Summer Olympics
- 19th-century Greek sportsmen
- Greek male fencers
- Olympic gold medalists for Greece
- Olympic fencers for Greece
- 1874 births
- Year of death missing
- Olympic medalists in fencing
- Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics
- People from Mantineia
- Place of death missing
- Sportspeople from the Peloponnese