win an olympic gold medal
John Baxter Taylor Jr.
Vonetta Flowers.
Yes, she is black. Her father former Olympic medal winner Mal Whitfield.
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
Figure skater Debi Thomas who won a bronze medal in ladies singles.
Nigeria won her first Olympic gold medal in 1876
she won her first olympic medal in 1973
Alice coachman was the first black woman to win a olympic gold medal. by lily
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.
Ice Skater Debbie Thomas was the first African American to win a medal at a Winter Olympics, winning the bronze medal in ladies figure skating at the 1988 winter Olympics. She is now an orthopedic surgeon..
Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia in men's marathon. Bikila won gold in the marathon four years later in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics ... this time he was wearing shoes.