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∙ 11y agoshooting
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∙ 11y agoThe first gold medals at the Olympics were not awarded until 1904. The first person that was awarded a gold medal was Charles Jewtraw.
Modern Olympics: first medal awarded was in the Men's Triple Jump in 1896.
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Gold medals were not awarded in the first Olympics of the modern era. The first gold medal was given at the 1904 Olympics; the country to win the first one was the United States.
Bronze medal is awarded for third place.
1912
Day 4 of the 2012 Olympics was when NZ got their first medal. it was a bronze won by the NZ equestrian team.
302 Gold medals were awarded for the 302 events. There were 304 Silver Medals awarded because of 2 ties for second place. 356 Bronze medal were awarded to make the total medal count 962
302 event winners were awarded a Gold Medal.
Jin Jong-oh.
South Korea, Shooting.