won a gold medal
It is the gold medal.
Jack Lovelock received the gold medal competing for New Zealand and setting a new world record running the 1500 meter race.
It is the gold medal.
Gold medal
latvian cyclist won the first medal in olympics 2012
Sage Kotsenburg, snowboarder from Park City, Utah won the first gold medal of the 2014 Olympics.
Sage Kotsenburg from the United States won the first gold medal at the 2014 Olympics in Men's slopestyle.
Arthur Wint won a gold medal in the 400 meteres for Jamaica in the 1948 summer Olympics.
New Zealand won only one medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics. That was achieved by Jack Lovelock who won gold in the 1500 meter run.
1896
The first gold medals at the Olympics were not awarded until 1904. The first person that was awarded a gold medal was Charles Jewtraw.