Alice coachman
First U.S female gymnast to get the gold medal was Julianne McNamara.
Charlotte Cooper
The last Olympics in Athens in 2004. Carly Patterson was the first American female to win an Olympic Gold in the All Around.
James Brendan Connolly.
Margaret Abbot was the first woman to win a Gold medal in the Olympics. She one in 1900 for golf
The first Australian woman to win a gold medal was Fanny Durack, from Sydney, in the 100 meter freestyle at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.
American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal was created in 1926.
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.
Alice Coachman became the first African American woman to win a Olympic Gold Medal when she won the High Jump at the 1948 London Olympic Games.She won 25 US National titles and her message to the people was; "If you believe and work hard to achieve, victory is yours to receive".
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