Cullen Jones won a gold medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay in 2008.
Cullen Jones- Mens 4 x 100 relay team, 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics was the second african-american to win a gold medal in swimming. The first was Anthony Ervin, winning the 50-meter freestyle in a tie with Gary Hall Jr. in the Athens games in 2000.
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.
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History is made everyday. In 1908 John Baxter Taylor was the first African American to earn a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Wilma Rudolph in 1960.
John Baxter Taylor .
George Coleman Poage was the first African American to win a medal in the Olympics.
The silver medal in the Team Synchronized Swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympics went to China.
The bronze medal in the Synchronized Swimming Duet event at the Rio 2016 Olympics was given to Japan.
Russia won the gold medal in the Synchronized Swimming Duet event at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
China was the silver medal winner in the Synchronized Swimming Duet event at the Rio 2016 Olympics.