The first gold medalist in the Modern Olympics was James Connolly of the United States in the triple jump in the 1896 Games in Athens.
As of the 2008 Games, no athlete from Malta has ever won an Olympic medal.
U.S.A.
Yes
Cameroon. It was the first gold medal Cameroon had ever won at an Olympic Games.
Yes, Afghanistan won its first and only Olympic medal at the 2008 Games in Beijing when Rohullah Nikpai won bronze in men's 58 kg taekwondo.
No athlete from the country of Samoa has won an Olympic medal. Samoa first participated in the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games.
As of the 2008 Games in Beijing, no athlete from Madagascar has ever won an Olympic medal.
No. As of the 2008 Games, no athlete from Malta has ever won an Olympic medal.
No athlete from Laos has ever won an Olympic medal.
As of the 2008 Games, no athlete from Malta has ever won an Olympic medal.
No. Through the 2008 Games in Beijing no athlete representing North Korea has ever competed in Olympic Taekwondo.
Through the 2008 Games, no athlete from Mali has ever won an Olympic medal.
Babe Didrikson at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Manny Pacquiao didn't participate in the Olympics ever. Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz in 2016 won an Olympic silver medal, it was 20 years since the Olympics won an Olympic medal. The Philippines has never won a gold medal since it started participating in 1924.
U.S.A.
Yes. As of 2010 Alexandre Bilodeau won the first ever Olympic gold medal for Canada on home soil. He competed in the Men's Moguls.
No .... through the 2008 Games in Beijing no athlete representing North Korea has ever competed in Olympic taekwondo.