Through the 2008 Games in Beijing, no Canadian athlete has won 5 gold medals in one Games.
The most gold medals a Canadian athlete has won in a single Olympic Games is 2 and has been done 13 times:
1) George Hodgson, swimming - won gold in men's 400 meter freestyle and 1500 meter freestyle at the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm.
2) Percy Williams, athletics - won gold in men's 100 meter dash and 200 meter dash at the 1928 Summer Games in Amsterdam.
3) Alex Baumann, swimming - won gold in men's 200 meter individual medley and 400 meter individual medley at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles.
4) Gaétan Boucher, speed skating - won gold in men's 1000 meters and 1500 meters at the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo.
5) Marnie McBean, rowing - won gold in women's coxless pairs and coxed eights at the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.
6) Kathleen Heddle, rowing - won gold in women's coxless pairs and coxed eights at the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.
7) Kirsten Barnes, rowing - won gold in women's coxless fours and coxed eights at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
8) Jessica Monroe, rowing - won gold in women's coxless fours and coxed eights at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
9) Kay Worthington, rowing - won gold in women's coxless fours and coxed eights at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
10) Brenda Taylor, rowing - won gold in women's coxless fours and coxed eights at the 1992 Games in Barcelona.
11) Myriam Bédard, biathlon - won gold in women's 7.5 km sprint and 15 km at the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer.
12) Donovan Bailey, athletics - won gold in men's 100 meter dash and 4x100 meter relay at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta.
13) Marc Gagnon, short track speed skating - won gold in men's 500 meters and 5000 meter relay at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
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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
Gymnastics were part of the Olympics as early as 1896, men were the athlete for women were not allowed to compete at the time. Men's gymnastics were popular enough to become a game in the Olympics. In 1928 were the women's first try at Olympic gymnastics. The first women's gymnastics were in Amsterdam.
The People's Republic of China first competed at the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki. They sent one athlete, a swimmer that did not medal. They would not go to another Summer Olympics until the 1984 Games in Los Angeles.
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.
The 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris were the first Olympics at which a Canadian athlete participated.
The first Canadian athlete in football [not soccer or Rugby] was ... ta ta! A Canadian ATHLETE. Had you asked WHO [rather than what] you might have had a better answer. Use Google or Yahoo instead of being so lazy.
Cindy Klassen won a gold medal in the 1500 meters at the 2006 Winter Olympics held in Turin, Italy. She became the first Canadian female athlete to win multiple medals in a single Winter Olympics, ultimately earning five medals in total during that event.
12, he is the youngest athlete to compete in olympics history.
Hasely Crawford was the first Trinidad and Tobago athlete to win a gold medal. He won the 100 meter dash at hte 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Clara Hughes, a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, will carry the flag in the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. She is the first athlete to win multiple medals in both the Summer and Winter games.
A total of 37 nations were represented at the 1932 Games. Colombia and the Republic of China (with a single athlete) made their first appearance at the Olympic Games.
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They first sent athletes to the Olympics in 1908, competing with Australia as a combined team that was called Australasia. New Zealand first competed as an independent team in 1920.
Liu Changchun was the Republic of China's first Olympic athlete, competing in the 100 meter dash at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
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