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Who was the first American woman to win a gold medal in the Summer Oympics?
Margaret Abbot was the first woman to win a Gold medal in the Olympics. She one in 1900 for golf
Who was the first African American woman to win a gold medal in the Olympics?
Wilma Rudolph in 1960.
Who was the first African American woman to win 3 gold medals in the track and field Olympics in 1960?
Wilma Rudolph.
Who was the first NZ woman to win a gold medal at the Olympics?
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What year did Alice Coachman go to Olympics?
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.
Who was the first African American to win gold medals in the Olympics?
History is made everyday. In 1908 John Baxter Taylor was the first African American to earn a gold medal in the Olympics.
In the summer only Olympics in 1948 who took the first place in the high jump becoming the first African American woman to win the gold medal?
Althea Gibson.
Who was the first black women to win a gold in the winter Olympics?
Vonetta Flowers was the first African American to win gold in the Winter Olympics when she teamed with Jill Bakken to win the two-woman bobsled event at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
Who was the first woman to enter the Olympics?
I don't know that history has recorded the first woman to compete in the Olympics. History has recorded that the first woman to win a gold medal was Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain who won gold in ladies singles tennis in the 1900 Olympics in Paris. The 1900 Olympics were the second Olympics of the modern era and the first that women were allowed to compete in. Women were not allowed to compete in the first modern Olympics held in Greece in 1896.
Who was the first American to win gold medal in the first Olympics?
James Brendan Connolly.
What was Wilma Rudolph job?
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.
Who is is the best gymnast in world?
The best gymnast in the world is currently Gabrielle Douglas, a member of the US Gymnastics Team at the 2012 London Olympics. She took the individual gold. She is also the first woman of color and African-American to win individual gold in the Olympics.
