Edwin Flack was the first Australian male to win a gold medal in Olympics.He won a gold medal in Mens 800m race in Athens on 1896 olympics.
New Zealand's first Olympic gold medal was won at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam by Ted Morgan in boxing in the welterweight division.
Ted Morgan (Boxing) (1928).
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valerie adams . No! Wrong answer. Valerie Adams is a shot putter from New Zealand and was not the first person to win Gold Medal. The first person , ever, to win the Gold Medal was Leonidas Pyrgos of Greece. He won the medal in Fencing at the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens.
That was welterweight Ted Morgan who won gold at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.
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New Zealand's first medal of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was won by Mahe Drysdale, who achieved a Bronze in the men's singles sculls event. The first Gold medal won by New Zealand at Beijing was achieved by Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell in the Women's Double Sculls.
Malcolm Champion, a swimmer who won gold in 1912 as part if the Australasian (Australia and New Zealand) 4x200m Relay. The first individual gold medal was won by boxer Ted Morgan in 1928.
New Zealand's first gold medal in Olympic athletics (track and field) was won by Jack Lovelock in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. He won the 1500 meter race in what was then a world record time of 3:47.8.
That was the 1976 Games in Montreal when New Zealand defeated Australia in the gold medal match.