1996 Games in Atlanta when Michal Martikán won gold in men's Canadian singles slalom canoeing.
Slovakia has won 20 medals (7 gold, 8 silver, 5 bronze) at the Summer Olympics and 1 medal, a silver, at the Winter Olympics. Slovakia has won 13 of their 20 Summer Olympic medals in the sport of canoeing.
No athlete from the country of Samoa has won an Olympic medal. Samoa first participated in the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.
August 14, 2004 at the Summer Games in Athens. Phelps first Olympic medal was a gold in 400 meter individual medley at the 2004 Games.
Israel's first Olympic medal was a silver won by Yael Arad in women's half-middleweight (61 kg) class judo at the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.
Karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal in women's 69 kg weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. She is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.
There was no Summer Olympic Games in 2006. Argentina defeated Italy, 84-69, to win the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens.
Field hockey was introduced at the Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition at the 1908 Games in London with six teams. Ice hockey first became an Olympic sport at the 1920 Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp. Canada won the first gold medal in Olympic ice hockey.
Nigeria won her first Olympic gold medal in 1876
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Philippines first competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and won their first ever medal (Teofilo Yldefonso in swimming) at the 1928 Summer Games in Amsterdam.
she won her first olympic medal in 1973
Alice Coachman in high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.