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What was the only event at the first recorded Olympic Games in 776 BCE?

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A woman in a white pleated dress lights the Olympic torch from a large flame in a gold cauldron, with a crowd seated in the background at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. — Olympic Games An actress playing the role of an Athenian high priestess lights the Olympic flame in Athens, October 31, 2017. The torch was later carried to Pyeongchang, South Korea, for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

At the first recorded Olympic Games in 776 BCE, there was only one event: a footrace known as the stade.12

This race covered a single length of the track at Olympia, measuring approximately 192 meters (210 yards). The term stade also referred to the track itself, which is the origin of the modern English word stadium.12