I don't know that history has recorded that honor as, in the first modern Olympics in 1896, most of the competition was held in one day and the clock times that the competitions were held were not recorded.
The gold medal winners on that first day of gymnastics were:
1) Pommel Horse: Louis Zutter, Switzerland
2) Rings: Ioannis Mitropoulos, Greece
3) Horizontal Bar: Hermann Weingärtner, Germany
4) Horse Vault: Karl Schuhmann, Germany
5) Parallel Bars: Alfred Flatow, Germany
One of the five men listed above was the first to win a gold medal in gymnastics at the modern Olympics.
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Pakistan has never won an individual gold medal at the Olympics so the first man are actually a group of men on the 1960 Olympic field hockey team that won gold. Their names are:Abdul HamidAbdul RashidAbdul WaheedBashir AhmadGhulam RasulAnwar KhanKhursheed AslamHabib Ali KiddieManzoor Hussain AtifMunir DarMushtaq AhmadMotiullahNaseer BundaNoor Alam
James Connolly (USA) won the first-ever modern Olympic Gold Medal when he won the triple jump, and the first wrestling Olympic champion was Carl Schuhmann (Germany) he defeated local Georgios Tsitas.
That was Steven Hooker in men's pole vault at the 2008 Games in Beijing. He set an Olympic record at 5.96 meters in winning gold. He was the first Australian man to win gold in athletics since 1968 when Ralph Doubell won the 800 meter run.