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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
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.
Carl Lewis (He won 10 Olympic medal, 9 of them gold)