Leander Paes in men's singles at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
Jim thorpe
August 14, 2004 at the Summer Games in Athens. Phelps first Olympic medal was a gold in 400 meter individual medley at the 2004 Games.
Karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal in women's 69 kg weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. She is the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.
Poltroon was awarded the individual bronze medal at the 1980 alternate Olympic Games. The rider of Poltroon was the first woman to win an Olympic medal in the sport.
Jim Thorpe was an American of European and Native American decent. He was in the 1912 Olympics in Sweden. He won gold medals in the pentathlon and the decathlon. In the 2008 Games in Beijing, Abhinav Bindra became the first athlete representing the country of India to win gold in an individual event when he won the men's 10 meter air rifle competition. This was India's 9th gold medal in Olympic competition. The other eight have been won by the hockey team.
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.
Nigeria won her first Olympic gold medal in 1876
Abhinav Bindra
Vishwanathan Anand
she won her first olympic medal in 1973
Yana Shemyakina of the Ukraine won the Individual Women's Epee gold medal in the 2012 Olympic Games.