For Canadians there has been a set up , a fund of which is called Athlete Excellence Fund that was created by the Canadian Olympic Committee. Canadian athletes will receive a $20,000 dollar monetary compensation for any gold medal won at the Olympics games , in the future (including Beijing). Silver winners will be compensated $15,000 dollars per medal; and bronze winners will earn $10,000 dollars.
Sharron Davies is a Gold Medalist but is also a Silver Medalist!
Mark Harmon never was an Olympic gold medalist. You may be confusing him with Mark Spitz who WAS an Olympic gold medalist swimmer in the 1972 Olympics.
Yu-Na Kim was the women's gold medalist
Some are .... 1) Muhammad Ali - 1960 gold medalist in the light heavyweight division 2) Joe Frazier - 1964 gold medalist in the heavyweight division 3) George Foreman - 1972 gold medalist in the heavyweight division 4) Sugar Ray Leonard - 1976 gold medalist in the welterweight division 5) Oscar de la Hoya - 1992 gold medalist in the lightweight division
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The women's downhill gold medalist at the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck was Christi Haas of Austria.
The first US gold medalist in the Modern Olympics was James Connolly in the triple jump in the 1896 Games in Athens.
paul hamm
no. not even close
Tara Lipinski was the youngest figure skating gold medalist. She won it when she was 15 years old in the 1998 Olympics.
There are no price money in ISSF World cups..only points for the world ranking and quotaplaces for the Olympic games.
Canada Incentives [in Canadian dollars] Gold medalist = $20,000 Silver medalist = $15,000 Bronze medalist = $10,000 Thai Incentives Gold medalist = $314,000 Silver medalist = $187,788 Bronze medalist = $125,213 Philippine Incentives Gold medalist = US$220,000 Azerbaijan Incentives: Gold: AZN 100,000 and NOC-AZN 50,000 Silver: AZN 50,000 and NOC AZN 30,000 Bronze: AZN 25,000 and AZN 20,000 The AZN amounts are converted to the following: AZN 100,000 = USD 123,777 AZN 50,000 = USD 61,888 AZN 25,000 = USD 30,944 I honestly don't know the difference between AZN and NOC-AZN. Russia Incentives: Gold medalist: 100,000 euros (US$150,000) Silver medalist: 60,000 euros (US$90,000) Bronze medalist: 40,000 euros (US$60,000) Slovenia Incentives: Individual events: Gold medalist: 39,350 euros (62,920 U.S. dollars) Silver medalist: 30,400 euros (48,609 dollars) Bronze medalist: 21,450 euros (34,298 dollars) Team events: Gold medalists in team sports will each receive 10,000 euros (15,990 dollars) from the Slovenian Olympic Committee in addition to the one-off 96,750 euros (154,703 dollars) that the state is giving to the whole team Malaysia Incentives [Note: These amounts may have already been increased.] Medal incentives: Gold = RM160,000 [US$ 49,088.96] Silver = RM80,000 [US$ 24,544.48] Bronze = RM40,000 [US$ 12,272.24] Monthly pension for retired medalists: Gold medalist = RM3,500 Silver medalist = RM1,500 Bronze medalist = RM1,000 Allowance for Olympic qualifiers: Monthly allowance = RM1,000 [US$318] United States Incentives [Note: This was for the 2004 Olympics] Gold medalist = $25,000 Silver medalist = $15,000 Bronze medalist = $10,000 Australia Incentives Quote from an official: "We have a medal incentive scheme which only goes down to number four and the best are getting $18,000." Kenya Incentives Gold medalist = US$11,000 Silver medalist = US$ 7,500 Bronze medalist = US$ 3,700 Palestine Incentives Monthly allowance: US$ 100 Argentina Incentives Olympic qualifiers: Sportsmen diplomas and scholarships of 4,000 pesos. [US $ 1,326]