Eddie Eagan.
Eagan won gold in men's light-heavyweight class boxing at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp and gold in men's four man bobsleigh at the 1932 Winter Games in Lake Placid.
Three other athletes have won medals in both the Summer and Winter Games (Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway, Christa Rothenburger of East Germany, Clara Hughes of Canada) but Eagan is the only athlete to have won gold at both the Summer and Winter Games.
No. The 2008 Games will be the 11th Fiji has sent at least one athlete to the Summer Games (1956, 1960, 1968, 1972, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008) but no athlete from Fiji has won a medal in the Summer Olympics. Fiji has also sent athletes to the Winter Olympics (1988, 1994, 2002) but has never won a Winter Olympic medal.
Yes. Guatemala has competed in 14 Olympics, 13 Summer Games and 1 Winter Games. They have competed in every Summer Games since 1968. So far, no athlete representing Guatemala has won an Olympic medal.
Christa Luding-Rothenburger of East Germany won a silver medal in cycling at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul and a gold and silver in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary.
There were no Olympic Games in 2007. The summer games were in 2008 and the winter games were in 2010.
Tara Lipinski at 15 years of age.
Through the 2006 Games in Turin, the oldest athlete to participate in the Winter Games is Carl August Kronlund who was 58 years, 155 days old when he won a silver medal with the Swedish curling team at the 1924 Winter Games in Chamonix.
Through the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, no Guatemalan athlete has won an Olympic medal.
No athlete from the country of Samoa has won an Olympic medal. Samoa first participated in the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.
As of the 2016 Games, five athletes have won medals in both the Summer and Winter Games: 1) Eddie Eagen of the United States Winter Games - gold in four man bobsled in 1932. Summer Games - gold in light-heavyweight boxing in 1920 2) Jacob Thams of Norway Winter Games - gold in ski jumping in 1924 Summer Games - silver in sailing in 1936. 3) Christa Luding-Rothenburger of East Germany Winter Games - gold in speed skating in 1984 and 1988, silver in speed skating in 1988, bronze in speed skating in 1992 Summer Games - silver in cycling in 1988. She is the only athlete to have won medals at a Winter and Summer Games in the same year. 4) Clara Hughes of Canada Winter Games - bronze in speed skating in 2002, gold and bronze in speed skating in 2006 Summer Games - 2 bronze in cycling in 1996. 5) Lauryn Williams of the United States Winter Games - Silver in bobsleigh in 2014 Summer Games - Silver in the 100 meters in 2004, Gold in the 4 x 100 relay in 2012
One British athlete won a medal at the 2006 Games, that being Shelley Rudman who won silver in women's skeleton.
50,000 for a gold in the L A summer x games. I think it is about the same for winter
== == In the SUMMER Olympics, I think it was Stephanie Rice. Steven Bradbury was the first Australian athelete to win gold in the Winter Olympics. It was for the 1,000 metre short track speed skating in the 2002 games. Australia is the only country in the southern hemisphere to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.