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Gillian Sheen was the first and only British woman to win a gold medal in Olympic fencing. She did it in 1956, at the age of 28, in the Individual Women's Foil event.
The youngest woman to ever win an Olympic gold medal was Helene Mayer of Germany. She won the Women's Individual Foil event in 1928 at the age of 17.
The Olympic gold medal is plated with six grams of pure gold. The medal is mostly silver (92.5%).
valerie adams . No! Wrong answer. Valerie Adams is a shot putter from New Zealand and was not the first person to win Gold Medal. The first person , ever, to win the Gold Medal was Leonidas Pyrgos of Greece. He won the medal in Fencing at the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens.
A round medal with an Olympic logo on it.
Nigeria won her first Olympic gold medal in 1876
No not really the gold medal has 92.5% silver
Mariel Zagunis (United States) won the women's fencing gold medal in the individual Sabre event.
There are hundreds of Olympic gold medal winners alive as of 2013.
Michelle Kwan has an Olympic silver medal and and Olympic bronze medal.
The gold medal is 1.34% gold and 92.5% silver.
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