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No athlete from the country of Samoa has won an Olympic medal. Samoa first participated in the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.
As of the 2008 Games in Beijing, no athlete from Madagascar has ever won an Olympic medal.
Every Athlete that won an event at the Olympic Games
The first person to win an Olympic gold medal is often considered to be the ancient Greek athlete Coroebus of Elis, who won the stadion race in the first recorded Olympic Games in 776 BC. In modern Olympics, the first gold medal was awarded to the American athlete James Connolly in the triple jump at the 1896 Athens Games.
No. As of the 2008 Games, no athlete from Malta has ever won an Olympic medal.
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John Baxter Taylor Jr.
Bob Hayes
As of the 2008 Games, no athlete from Malta has ever won an Olympic medal.
Carol Huynh in freestyle wrestling, 48 kg class.
Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, no athlete from Bolivia has won an Olympic medal.
George Poage (USA) became the first black athlete to medal at the Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1904 St Louis Olympics and he later went on to win the bronze in the 200m hurdles in the same games.He is the first African-American athlete to compete at the Olympic Games