Ethelda Bleibtrey.
Ethelda won gold in 100 meter freestyle swimming, 300 meter freestyle, and 4x100 meter freestyle relay at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp.
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Margaret Abbot was the first woman to win a Gold medal in the Olympics. She one in 1900 for golf
Wilma Rudolph in 1960.
That was Margaret Abbott in women's golf at the 1900 Games in Paris.
1948 Summer Games in London. She won gold in high jump and became the first African-American woman, and the first black woman of any nationality, to win an Olympic gold medal.
Margaret Abbott in ladies golf at the 1900 Games in Paris.
Wilma Rudolph.
Jenny Thompson
Althea Gibson.
Wilma Rudolp got her career by running in the Olympics and winning three gold medals. She was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field.
She was the first american to win gold in the long jump,and first woman to earn over 7,000 points at the Grueling seven-event heptation
So far, of what I've heard of, one, shiny, gold Vancouver Medal.(Hooray for South Korea!):):):)