Ladies Singles gold medalists in tennis: 1900 - Charlotte Cooper, Great Britain
1908 - Dorothea Chambers, Great Britain (outdoor event) and Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith, Great Britain (indoor event)
1912 - Marguerite Broquedis, France (outdoor) and Edith Hannam, Great Britain (indoor)
1920 - Suzanne Lenglen, France
1924 - Helen Wills Moody, United States Between the 1928 Games and the 1984 Games, tennis appeared twice in the Olympics as a demostration sport and not as a medal sport. 1988 - Steffi Graf, West Germany
1992 - Jennifer Capriati, United States
1996 - Lindsay Davenport, United States
2000 - Venus Williams, United States
2004 - Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgium
There are hundreds of Olympic gold medal winners alive as of 2013.
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they receive a medal
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That will be based on the country. The US Olympic committee pays an award bonus of $25,000 for a gold medal.
Here in Britain the answer is no
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The gold medal is an award given to the first place winners in Olympic events. The most recent Olympics in China followed in this tradition.
Some Olympic Quarter Mile gold medal winners include John Baxter Taylor and Glenn Davis. You can learn more about these athletes online at the Wikipedia website.