The U.S. Olympic Committee awards gold-medalists $25,000, silver-medalists $15,000 and bronze-medalists $10,000.
Gold medalists in long jump at the 2008 Games: Men: Irving Saladino - Panama Women: Maurren Maggi - Brazil
The Gold medalists of 1936 got a one year old oak seedling as a gift from the German people.
302 gold medals were given out in total. Top gold medalists were: China (51), USA (36), Russia (23)
The men's gold medalists were the United States in a time of 2:56.16. The women's gold medalists were the Soviet Union in a time of 3:15.17.
Misty May-Treanor plays pro beach volleyball with her partner Kerri Walsh. They won gold in the 2004 Olympics in Athens and made history as repeating gold medalists in the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. Olympics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jesse Owens.
They don't win any money because technically they are amateurs, but if the Canadians win gold they get 20,000 Canadian dollars The U.S. Olympic Committee awards American gold-medalists $25,000, silver-medalists $15,000 and bronze-medalists $10,000.
The gold medalists in the Nacra 17 event at the Rio 2016 Olympics were Santiago Lange and Cecilia Carranza Saroli.
Rebecca Adlington won two golds at the 2008 Olympics in swimming.
Gold medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics: Men's Indoor: Brazil Women's Indoor: China
Torah Bright won the woman's gold for half pipe in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics :)