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The following table lists the first Olympic gold medal won by each National Olympic Committee (NOC). James Brendan Connolly of the United States is credited as the first ever gold medalist of the modern Olympic Games. [1] In some cases, a NOC may garner multiple gold medals in the same edition where it won its first ever gold medal.
With this performance, he became the first Olympic champion since AD 385, when the Athenian Zopyrus won the pankration (other sources name the Armenian Varasdates, who won at boxing in 369). He went on to take second place in the high jump (1.65 m; 5 ft 5 in) tying with Robert Garrett behind Ellery Clark , and third place in the long jump (5.84 ...
Medal Host Number of medal events Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (gold–silver–bronze) Athlete(s) with the most gold medals Total 1924: winners: table: Chamonix, France: 16 16 16 17 49 Clas Thunberg (3–1–1) Roald Larsen (0–2–3) Clas Thunberg (3–1–1) Thorleif Haug (3–0–0) 1928: winners: table
A silver medal was awarded to the winner of each event during the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.. The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Athens, the capital of Greece, from 6 to 15 April 1896, and were the first Olympic Games of the Modern era.
Roughly an hour on Saturday before Alfred’s medal, Thea LaFond made history for Dominica when she won the gold with a 15.02 meter jump in the triple jump—earning the country its first-ever ...
This is a partial list of multiple Olympic gold medalists, listing people who have won four or more Olympic gold medals. Medals won in the 1906 Intercalated Games are not included. (If they were, Ray Ewry would be second on the list with 10 gold.) It includes top-three placings in 1896 and 1900, before medals were awarded for top-three placings.
The gold medal won by John Hopkins Noel Sr.,a Nashville skeet shooter became the first Tennessean to win an Olympic gold medal, sit framed, at Tennessee State Museum in Nashville , Tenn., Tuesday ...
Eddie Eagan became the first person to win a medal in the Winter Olympics and in the Summer Olympics in different events. He is the only Summer and Winter medalist to win gold medals in different events. Christa Luding-Rothenburger is the only person to win medals at the Winter and Summer Games in the same year.