Women competed at the Olympic Games for the first time at the 1900 Paris Olympics.
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America first competed in the Modern Olympics at the 1896 Games in Athens.
In the Ancient Olympics it is recorded as a spartan princess called Kynisca in 392BC. In the Modern Day Olympics (1896) there was an unofficial competitor in the marathon - Stamata Revithi The first acknowledged competed at the 1900 in Paris. Yachting, Equestrian, Croquet, Tennis, Golf and Ballooning. First Gold medal Helen de Pourtales, Switzerland, Yachting mixed event and Charlotte Cooper, Great Britain, Tennis individual womens event.
Ecuador first compete at the Summer Olympics in 1924 at the Paris Olympics, when they send three athletes; Alberto Jarrin Jaramillo (10000m), Alberto Jurado (100m and long jump) and Belisario Villacris (marathon).
2012 was her first year on the olympic gymnastics team in which she competed in 4 events
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.