Through the 2010 Games in Vancouver, no woman from Canada has won a gold medal in skeleton. One Canadian female athlete has won a bronze medal in skeleton, that being Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin.
Two Canadian men have won Olympic gold in skeleton. They are Duff Gibson at the 2006 Games and Jon Moontgomery at the 2010 Games.
Russia's Alexander Tretiakov won gold for men's skeleton. UK's Elizabeth Yarnold won gold in women's skeleton
Duff Gibson in men's skeleton at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin.
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First U.S female gymnast to get the gold medal was Julianne McNamara.
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Yun Sung-bin of South Korea won the gold medal in men's skeleton.
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The first woman in Australia to win an Olympic gold medal was Sarah 'Fanny' Durack. A swimmer, she won Gold in the 100m freestyle in Stockholm in 1912.
The first professional female boxer was from the United States, and her name was Cathy Davis. She is the only female boxer to ever appear on the cover of Ring Magazine.
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