Lisa Carrington for rowing
Mahe Drysdale for rowing
Valirie Adams for shot put
The U.S. Olympic Committee awards gold-medalists $25,000, silver-medalists $15,000 and bronze-medalists $10,000.
A gold, bronze or Silver medal. The U.S. Olympic Committee awards gold-medalists $25,000, silver-medalists $15,000 and bronze-medalists $10,000.
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USC has had more Olympians (as well as gold medalists and overall medalists) than any other U.S. college/university. The school has had 396 athletes (prior to the 2012 Olympics) who attended the university before, during or after the time they competed in the Olympic Games.
$25,000 for gold $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze!
Gold medalists in the 2004 Games for New Zealand were Sarah Ulmer in cycling, Hamish Carter in triathlon, and Georgia Evers-Swindell and Caroline Evers-Swindell in Rowing. Click on the '2004 New Zealand Olympic Team' link below to see the entire team, which consisted of 151 athletes.
Olympic gold medalists were Duncan Goodhew in 1980 and Adrian Moorhouse in 1988.
In 1992 Phylis Smith came bronze
They don't win any money because technically they are amateurs, but if the Canadians win gold they get 20,000 Canadian dollars The U.S. Olympic Committee awards American gold-medalists $25,000, silver-medalists $15,000 and bronze-medalists $10,000.
Yes, the medalists get a payment, which many have been known to contribute back to charities over the years.Gold medalist = $20,000Silver medalist = $15,000Bronze medalist = $10,000
New Zealand's first Olympic gold medal was won at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam by Ted Morgan in boxing in the welterweight division.