An "unidentified French coxswain" became the youngest Olympic medalist in history, helping the team of François Brandt and Roelof Klein win the first gold medal ever for the Netherlands in rowing.
The original coxswain was too heavy. The replacement was as young as ten years old.
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The first line of the Métro was inaugurated in Paris.
Michel Théato won the Olympic marathon in a time of 2:59:45). Temperatures in Parish for the race were over 102 °F (39 °C) for the race.
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov left Russian for Germany and self imposed exile.
It was the last day of the 1900 Summer Olympics.
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Charlotte Cooper of the United Kingdom she defeated Yvonne Prévost in the tennis competition at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, winning a Gold Medal, the first woman to do so.
The French was the team that fielded a croquet team, with this being the only Olympics in which it ts. Gaston Aumoitte and Chrétien Waydelich won medals in the one-ball and two-ball competitions.
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