Wrestling was an event at the first Olympic games. It can be argued that wrestling is the oldest sport known to mankind.
Babe Ruth
this answer would be china not
win your country's Olympic Wrestling Trials.
claire alburo
francis lane
Janja Garnbret
The first women's Olympic marathon was held in Los Angeles in 1984; the winner was Joan Benoit of the USA.
Professional wrestling that you see on tv yes, Olympic wrestling no
We don't know who was the first winner of the Olympic games. The Greeks start to record the Olympics in 776 B.C. but the games took place from 1000 B.C. So the first recorded winner was Κόροιβος (Coroebus) a baker from Elis an area in northen-western Greece, very near to Olympia.
Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain in 1900.
In 1896 in Greece 13 of the 17 entrants were Greek and the winner was the Greek Spiridon Louis.