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Gold Silver Bronze 1900 Paris details: Margaret Abbott United States: Pauline Whittier United States: Daria Pratt United States: 1904–2012: not included in the Olympic program: 2016 Rio de Janeiro details: Inbee Park South Korea: Lydia Ko New Zealand: Shanshan Feng China: 2020 Tokyo details: Nelly Korda United States: Mone Inami Japan: Lydia ...
The champion receives a gold champion's medal, and the U.S. Open Championship Cup, which the winner is allowed to keep for a year. [3] Willie Anderson, Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Jack Nicklaus hold the record for the most U.S. Open victories, with four victories each. [4] Anderson holds the record for most consecutive wins with three (1903–05).
The men's major golf championships, also known simply as the majors, are the four most prestigious events in professional golf. [1] The competitions are the Masters Tournament, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open, and The Open Championship, contested annually.
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.
A multiple-time champion will only have one jacket unless his size changes dramatically. [5] Jack Nicklaus holds the record for the most Masters victories, winning the tournament six times during his career. Nicklaus is also the oldest winner of the Masters: he was 46 years 82 days old when he won in 1986. [6]
Willie Park Sr., four-time Open Champion in 1860, 1863, 1866, and 1875 Walter Hagen, four-time Open Champion in 1922, 1924, 1928, and 1929 Bob Ferguson, three-time Open Champion in 1880, 1881, 1882 Bobby Jones, three-time Open Champion in 1926, 1927, and 1930. He is one of six champions to win wire-to-wire after 72-holes played with his victory ...
As of the 2024 season, 233 golfers have won one of men's professional golf's four major championships – the modern accepted definition of the majors has only existed since the 1960s but wins in these tournaments have been retrospectively recognized by all the major sanctioning organizations.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she became the oldest cycling gold medalist, when she won the women's road time trial race, defending her gold medal from Beijing 2008. She repeated her success at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning third gold in a row and setting a new record. [8] Oldest female cycling gold medalist 42 Kristin Armstrong [8] Athletics