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What is the only country to have won at least one gold medal at every Summer Olympic games?
Great Britain and Northern Ireland have had a gold medal in every modern Olympic games.
What team won Australia's only gold medal at the 1908 olympic?
Rugby team.
Who is the first Indian to receive a gold medal in the Olympics in an individual sports?
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.
Who won a gold medal for Peru at the 1948 Olympics?
That was Edwin Vasquez in 50 meter pistol shooting. This is the only gold medal Peru has won in Olympic competition.
How many grams of fine gold are there in the Olympic gold medal?
The 2008 medals were silver, having only 6 grams of gold plating.
Who was the first British woman to win a gold medal in Olympic fencing?
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.
Which is the only country to have won an olympic gold medal for cricket?
Great Britain at the 1900 Games in Paris.
Who got a medal in 1972 in the winter olympic?
Well, this Japan' 1st gold medal in Japan's Games, they only got 1 gold medal when, Yukio Kasaya won gold in the ski jumping 70m, though they got 11th in gold medals, no other country more then 10 gold medal
What Olympic Gold medal winner threw his medal in the Ohio River?
The story is said about Muhammad Ali (aka Cassius Clay) that after he was refused to be served at a whites only restaurant he threw his gold medal into the Ohio River. Others claim that he lost it and the story is not true. He did receive a new gold medal in 1996 at the Olympic games in Atlanta.
Who was the first Indian woman to win an olympic medal?
Through the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, no Indian woman has won a gold medal at the Olympics. The only Indian woman to win a medal in Olympic competition was Karnam Malleswari who won the bronze medal in weightlifting in the 69 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. All of India's gold medals at the Olympics have come in field hockey. India has won gold 8 times in Olympic field hockey: 1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1964, and 1980.
How many kilograms does an Olympic gold medal weigh?
I believe they're around 0.25 kg, of which only 0.006 kg is actually gold.
What event did American Bruce Jenner win his Olympic gold medal?
Bruce Jenner won gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in the decathlon.
