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A gold, bronze or Silver medal. The U.S. Olympic Committee awards gold-medalists $25,000, silver-medalists $15,000 and bronze-medalists $10,000.
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A wreath of olive branches was placed on the winner's head at the ancient Olympics in Greece.
it was held in greece in Olympia
The first person to win an Olympic gold medal is often considered to be the ancient Greek athlete Coroebus of Elis, who won the stadion race in the first recorded Olympic Games in 776 BC. In modern Olympics, the first gold medal was awarded to the American athlete James Connolly in the triple jump at the 1896 Athens Games.
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The first women's Olympic marathon was held in Los Angeles in 1984; the winner was Joan Benoit of the USA.
We don't know who was the first winner of the Olympic games. The Greeks start to record the Olympics in 776 B.C. but the games took place from 1000 B.C. So the first recorded winner was Κόροιβος (Coroebus) a baker from Elis an area in northen-western Greece, very near to Olympia.
Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain in 1900.
In 1896 in Greece 13 of the 17 entrants were Greek and the winner was the Greek Spiridon Louis.
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The IOC, International Olympic Comittee.
Taken from Wikipedia The heats of the 100 metres were the first Olympic event to be conducted, and the winner of the first heat, Francis Lane, can thus be considered the first Olympic winner. The first Olympic champion was crowned in the triple jump, Harvard student James Connolly. Connolly also did well in the other jumping events, placing second in the high jump and third in the long jump. The first Events of the 1896 Olympics were contested on April 6th at the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens
In 1896, in Athens Greece, the heats of the 100 metres were the first Olympic event to be conducted, and the winner of the first heat, Francis Lane, can thus be considered the first Olympic winner. Women were not allowed to compete at the 1896 Summer Olympics. [1]In 1900, in Paris France, Charlotte Cooper was the first woman to become Olympic champion after winning the women's singles tennis competition. [2]
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