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I believe that the first African to ever win a gold medal in the Olympics was Abebe Bikila who ran the marathon in the Rome Olympics in 1960. He ran the entire race barefoot and still won. Now that's amazing!
the real answer is that John Baxter Taylor jr. is the first AFRICAN AMERICAN gold medalist, in 1904
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∙ 14y agoThere are several answers to this question depending on what the specific question is: Alice Coachman made history when she became the first black woman and also the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal at the 1948 Games. The first woman competing for an African country to win an Olypmic gold medal was South African Esther Brand who won the women's high jump in 1952, though she was a white South African. The first black true African woman to win an Olympic gold medal would have been one of the members of Zimbabwe's women's hockey team who won gold in the 1980 Olympics. The first black true African woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal was Derartu Tulu winning gold for Ethiopia in the women's 10,000m in 1992.
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∙ 14y agoEthiopian Abebe Bikila who ran the Rome onlympic barefoot in 1960
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∙ 14y agoThat was Reggie Walker of South Africa (born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal) who won the 100 meter dash at the 1908 Games in London
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∙ 14y agoDerartu Tulu of Ethiopia in the 10,000 meter run at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
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What year did Alice Coachman go to Olympics?
1948 Summer Games in London. She won gold in high jump and became the first African-American woman, and the first black woman of any nationality, to win an Olympic gold medal.
Who was the first woman to enter the Olympics?
I don't know that history has recorded the first woman to compete in the Olympics. History has recorded that the first woman to win a gold medal was Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain who won gold in ladies singles tennis in the 1900 Olympics in Paris. The 1900 Olympics were the second Olympics of the modern era and the first that women were allowed to compete in. Women were not allowed to compete in the first modern Olympics held in Greece in 1896.
Who was the first African American woman to win a gold medal in the winter Olympics?
Vonetta Flowers in women's twos bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
First place in the Olympics?
First place in the Olympics? Gold
In tennis at the Sydney Olympics she was the first woman to win a gold in singles and doubles since 1924?
Venus Williams
Who was the first African American woman to win a gold medal in the Olympics?
Wilma Rudolph in 1960.
Who was the first African American woman to win 3 gold medals in the track and field Olympics in 1960?
Wilma Rudolph.
Who was the first African American to win gold medals in the Olympics?
History is made everyday. In 1908 John Baxter Taylor was the first African American to earn a gold medal in the Olympics.
What year did Alice Coachman go to Olympics?
1948 Summer Games in London. She won gold in high jump and became the first African-American woman, and the first black woman of any nationality, to win an Olympic gold medal.
In the summer only Olympics in 1948 who took the first place in the high jump becoming the first African American woman to win the gold medal?
Althea Gibson.
Who was the first black women to win a gold in the winter Olympics?
Vonetta Flowers was the first African American to win gold in the Winter Olympics when she teamed with Jill Bakken to win the two-woman bobsled event at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
Who was the first NZ woman to win a gold medal at the Olympics?
hillary
Who was the first African American to win a Olympics gold medal?
In 1908, John Baxter Taylor became the first African American to win a gold medal at the Olympics. Unfortunately, Taylor died of typhoid pneumonia later that year.
Who is is the best gymnast in world?
The best gymnast in the world is currently Gabrielle Douglas, a member of the US Gymnastics Team at the 2012 London Olympics. She took the individual gold. She is also the first woman of color and African-American to win individual gold in the Olympics.
Who was the first south African to win a gold medal in the 1908 Olympics?
Reggie Walker.
Who was the first woman to enter the Olympics?
I don't know that history has recorded the first woman to compete in the Olympics. History has recorded that the first woman to win a gold medal was Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain who won gold in ladies singles tennis in the 1900 Olympics in Paris. The 1900 Olympics were the second Olympics of the modern era and the first that women were allowed to compete in. Women were not allowed to compete in the first modern Olympics held in Greece in 1896.
Who was the first African American woman to win a gold medal in the winter Olympics?
Vonetta Flowers in women's twos bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
