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Rope climbing featured at five Olympics, from 1896 to 1932 . From a seated start, athletes used only their hands to clamber up 49 feet at Athens 1896, and then 25 feet of rope in the later events.Greece’s Nikolaus Andriakopoulos (pictured) won the inaugural Olympiad. He was one of just two people to make it all the way to the top that year.At the 1904 Games in St. Louis, Missouri, Team USA's George Eyser took the title. His feat was all the more incredible because he had one wooden leg.