Athletics

Horse race, from a vase 540 BC

Corinthian Olympic Victors

Victor	Event	Year
Diokles	Stadion	728 BC
Dasmon (or Desmon)	Stadion	724 BC
Pheidolas	Horse Race	512 BC
Sons of Pheidolas	Horse Race	508 BC
Thessalos	Diaulos	504 BC
[...]tandridas	Boys' Stadion	472 BC
Xenophon	Pentathlon	464 BC
Xenophon	Stadion	464 BC
[...]ïs	Wrestling	396 BC
Andromenes	Stadion	304 BC
Publius Asklepiades	Pentathlon	241 AD

Horse race winner, Panathenaic amphora 540 BC

Pheidolas
512 BC

Pheidolas was riding a mare named Aura (breeze), but in the beginning of the race he fell down. The mare went on running, turned around the post and when she heard the trumpet for the finish, she opened her speed, reaching first the umpires and stopped running, when she realized that she had won!
Pheidolas was proclaimed the winner of the race by the Eleans and he was allowed to dedicate a statue of his mare.