George Poage (USA) became the first black athlete to medal at the Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1904 St Louis Olympics and he later went on to win the bronze in the 200m hurdles in the same games.
He is the first African-American athlete to compete at the Olympic Games
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Every Athlete that won an event at the Olympic Games
The first athlete to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games held in Asia was Alexey Vakhonin of the Soviet Union who won gold in men's bantamweight (56kg) weightlifting at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on October 11.
As of the 2008 Games, no athlete from Malta has ever won an Olympic medal.
As of October 2023, Peru has won a total of two Olympic medals. The first was a silver medal in the men's 20 km walk, earned by Edwin Vásquez in the 1948 London Olympics. The second was a bronze medal in the same event, achieved by the Peruvian athlete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021) by the athlete Kimberly García.
No athlete from the country of Samoa has won an Olympic medal. Samoa first participated in the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.
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As of the 2008 Games in Beijing, no athlete from Madagascar has ever won an Olympic medal.
There has never been a United Arab Emirate athlete who won a medal in an Olympic fencing event.
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Every Athlete that won an event at the Olympic Games
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