Joan Benoit of the United States at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
That was Fanny Durack of Australia who won the 100 meter freestyle event at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.
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.
Women were not allow to compete at the first Olympic in 1896.
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The 1900 Olympics were the first modern Olympic Games to be open to women.
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Track and Field men: Usain Bolt Track and Field women: Shelly Ann-Fraser Swimming men: Alain Bernard Swimming woman: Britta Steffen
Woman,s 4_100 free style relay
Gillian Sheen was the first and only British woman to win a gold medal in Olympic fencing. She did it in 1956, at the age of 28, in the Individual Women's Foil event.
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