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Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold: Tom Dolan: Swimming: Men's 400 meter individual medley: July 21 Gold: Ryan Berube Josh Davis Joe Hudepohl Jon Olsen* Brad Schumacher
Gold Medal/ Total Member (Gold / Silver / Bronze) Relationship Olympics Sports Note Paine 2 / 3 Sumner Paine (1/1/0) 1896 Athens: Shooting - 30 m free pistol (1896), 25 m military pistol (1896) John Paine (1/0/0) Brother: 1896 Athens: Shooting - 25 m military pistol (1896) Doherty 5 / 7 Reginald Doherty (3/0/1) 1900 Paris, 1908 London
The Australian team, with the 100- and 200-meter gold medalist Betty Cuthbert as their anchor leg, won the gold medal in a time of 44.5 seconds. [11] After Rudolph returned to her Tennessee home from the Melbourne Olympic Games, Rudolph showed her high school classmates the bronze medal that she had won and decided to try to win a gold medal at ...
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she became the oldest cycling gold medalist, when she won the women's road time trial race, defending her gold medal from Beijing 2008. She repeated her success at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning third gold in a row and setting a new record. [8] Oldest female cycling gold medalist 42 Kristin Armstrong [8] Athletics
Swimmer Michael Phelps and President George W. Bush on August 10, 2008, at the National Aquatic Center in Beijing.Phelps is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. [11] [12] Dara Torres is the third-most decorated female American Olympic athlete after Jenny Thompson and Katie Ledecky, celebrated not only for her athletic achievements but also for defying age norms in competitive sports.
Ledecky's accomplishments at the 2024 Games have been phenomenal. She won four medals: two gold, one silver and one bronze. Both of her golds came from individual events: the 1500m, in which she ...
PARIS — A Caeleb Dressel-anchored American relay roared to Team USA’s first gold medal of the 2024 Olympics with dominant swims, flexed muscles, tears and a full-circle moment.
Tommie C. Smith (born June 6, 1944) [3] is an American former track and field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League.At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith, aged 24, won the 200-meter sprint finals and gold medal in 19.83 seconds – the first time the 20-second barrier was broken officially.