That was Karnam Malleswari who won a bronze medal in Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. As of the 2008 Games, she is the only Indian women to win a medal at the Olympics.
The first woman athlete representing India to win a medal at the Olympics was Karnam Malleswari who won a bronze medal in light heavyweight class weightlifting at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
Men: Gabriel Tiacoh, Ivory Coast Women: Chandra Cheeseborough, United States
Who was the first women olypic marathon runner
The trampoline became an Olympic event in 2000. There is no first women in the trampoline event. The link below has who what won medals in what year.
who is the first African American women to serve on the International Olympic CommitteeSave
2008 Games in Beijing.The first ever gold medalist in the men's BMX event was Māris Štrombergs of Latvia. The first gold medalist in the women's BMX event was Anne-Caroline Chausson of France.
Women were first allowed to participate in the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris and Charlotte Cooper was the first woman gold medalist, winning the ladies singles event in tennis.
Charlotte Cooper in women's singles tennis at the 1900 Games in Paris.
1984 Games in Los Angeles. The first gold medalist in women's cycling was Connie Carpenter-Phinney of the United States in individual road race at the 1984 Games.
María Isabel Urrutia in women's weightlifting, heavyweight class, at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
No one. Women did not begin competing in Olympic athletics (track and field) until the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce from Jamaica (JAM) was the Women's 100 metres Gold Medalist and Usain Bolt Jamaica (JAM) was the Men's
Kristi Yamaguchi from the United States won gold in the 1992 Olympic women's figure skating.
Australia's first woman Olympic gold medalist and the best woman swimmer in the decade of the 1910s. She won the gold medal in women's 100 meter freestyle at the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm.
Men: Gabriel Tiacoh, Ivory Coast Women: Chandra Cheeseborough, United States
Who was the first women olypic marathon runner
Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh took home the gold in women's beach volleyball in the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
Women were not allow to compete at the first Olympic in 1896.