Sir Murray Halberg won his first and only Olympic medal (gold) at the 1960 Rome Olympics in the 5000m.
Prior to the Olympic triumph, he won the first of two Commonwealth Games Gold Medals in the 3 milesat the 1958 Cardiff Games (he went back-to-back at the '62 Perth Games).
1960 Rome Olympic games.
Murray Halberg was famous for winning the olympic gold medal in the 5000m at the Rome Olympics and he became only the fourth person to win the Blake Medal for 50+ years of services to athletics and disabled children thru his charity, Halberg Trust.He was knighted in 1988.
1960 - Rome
The 1960 Summer Games in Rome.
Mohamed Gamoudi from Tunisia is the man who won the gold medal for the 500 meter run in the olympics for 1968 did you know that the gold medal is gold plated siliver
Murray Halberg won Gold at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games. He was 27 years old.
Murray Halberg's first Olympics was the 1956 Games in Melbourne. He finished 11th in the 1500 meter run. He won gold at the 1960 Games in Rome in the 5000 meter run and finished 5th in the 10000 meter run. In the 1964 Games in Tokyo, he would up 7th in the 10000 meter run.
1962
Andy Murray won the gold medal for men at the 2012 London olympics. Although he is from Scotland his medal counted toward the Great Britain total-- a first gold medal in this sport!
abhinav bindra is the first Punjabi to win a medal in Olympics
a gold medal if you come first, a silver medal if you come second and a bronze medal if you com third.
the first medal she won was a gold medal.