After the 2008 Games, tw0: 1) Usain Bolt, men's 100 meter gold medalist at the 2008 Games. 2) Shelly-Ann Fraser, women's 100 meter gold medalist at the 2008 Games.
Kristi Yamaguchi from the United States won gold in the 1992 Olympic women's figure skating.
Yu-Na Kim was the women's gold medalist
Mark Harmon never was an Olympic gold medalist. You may be confusing him with Mark Spitz who WAS an Olympic gold medalist swimmer in the 1972 Olympics.
The 2004 Olympic gold medalist in the 100 meter dash was Justin Gatlin of the United States in a time of 9.85 seconds.
There was no one by the name of Lillian Boardman that competed in the Olympics. There was a Lillian Board that competed for Great Britain that won silver in the women's 400 meter dash at the 1968 Games in Mexico City. She was a gold medalist at the 1969 European Championships in the 800 meter run and 4x400 meter relay. Tragically, two years after competing in the Olympics she passed away from stomach cancer at the age of 22.
Lyudmila Kondratyeva who won the women's 100 meter gold medal at the 1980 Games in Moscow. She is the only Russian born 100 meter dash gold medalist in the history of the Olympics.
Maris Strombergs
The women's downhill gold medalist at the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck was Christi Haas of Austria.
In Barcelona 1992, the 100m athletics events were won, earning a gold medal, by: * men: Linford Christie (United Kingdom) * women: Gail Devers (United States)
Michael Jordan (gold medal in basketball), Vitaly Scherbo (six gold medals in artistic gymnastics), Fu Mingxia (13 year old gold medalist in diving), Evelyn Ashford (won a fourth gold medal in the 4x100 meter relay footrace), Krisztina Egerszegi (3 swimming gold medals), Linford Christie (won gold in the 100 meter dash at the age of 32), Yael Arad and Oren Smadja (first Israeli medalists ever at the Olympics).
The first US gold medalist in the Modern Olympics was James Connolly in the triple jump in the 1896 Games in Athens.