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Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold: Tom Dolan: Swimming: Men's 400 meter individual medley: July 21 Gold: Ryan Berube Josh Davis Joe Hudepohl Jon Olsen* Brad Schumacher
Swimmer Michael Phelps and President George W. Bush on August 10, 2008, at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing.Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. [11] [12] Dara Torres is the third-most decorated female American Olympic athlete after Jenny Thompson and Katie Ledecky, celebrated not only for her athletic achievements but also for defying age norms in competitive sports.
The United States of America has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern Summer Olympic Games with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics, during which it led a boycott in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is the National Olympic Committee for the United States ...
United States: Athletics: Discus G: Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos Greece: Discus S Sotirios Versis Greece: Discus B 2 7 April 1896 [1] Robert Garrett United States: Athletics: Long jump S: See above: James Connolly United States: Long jump B 3 Robert Garrett United States: Athletics: Shot put G: 1896 – 1 G, 2 S: 9 April 1896 [1] Carl Schuhmann ...
United States: Stan Rowley Australia: 1904 St. Louis details: Archie Hahn United States: Nathaniel Cartmell United States: William Hogenson United States: 1908 London details: Reggie Walker South Africa: James Rector United States: Robert Kerr Canada: 1912 Stockholm details: Ralph Craig United States: Alvah Meyer United States: Donald ...
He competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, 1920 Summer Olympics, and 1924 Summer Olympics, winning a total of eleven Olympic medals: [2] five gold (including two individual golds), four silver, and two bronze. [3] He is the most successful shooter at the Olympic Games when individual and team medals are both taken into the account.
At 2014 Winter Olympics, Ole Einar Bjørndalen won gold at the 10 km sprint biathlon event, tying the record number of total medals in the Winter Olympics at 12, along with Bjørn Dæhlie, and becoming the oldest Winter Olympics medalist at age 40. [5] Skeleton Oldest skeleton gold medalist 39 Duff Gibson [6] Oldest male skeleton gold medalist 39
The 100 meters contest at the 1932 Olympics was one of the closest races in Olympic history. Tolan broke the Olympic record in the first heat of the second round with a time of 10.4 seconds, but Metcalfe remained the favorite. [21] In the finals, Japanese sprinter Takayoshi Yoshioka jumped out to a four-yard lead after 40 meters. Tolan passed ...