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First African-American Winter Olympic gold medal winner: Vonetta Flowers (two-woman bobsleigh). (See also: Shani Davis, 2006) First African American to become majority owner of a U.S. major sports league team: Robert L. Johnson (Charlotte Bobcats, NBA) [Note 7] (see also 2001) First African American to hold the #1 rank in tennis: Venus Williams
Douglas is the first African American to win an Olympic individual all-around title, [6] [7] and the first U.S. gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics in 2012. With a total of six Olympic and World Championship medals, she is the eleventh most decorated U.S. female gymnast of all time.
This is a list of the United States athletes who won an Olympic medal since 1992. Summer Olympics. 1992 Barcelona. Medal Name Sport Event Date Gold: Nelson Diebel ...
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.
Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer, author, entrepreneur and Olympic medalist.At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics in hijab, the first American Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal, [1] and the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in the sabre event, when she won bronze in the women’s saber team event.
Editor's note: A few of our reporters in Paris were covering their first Olympics. We asked what made the biggest impression during the 17 days of the Games? PARIS — It was an amazing experience ...
A.C. Gilbert is a legend in these parts, born and raised in Salem, where he developed a passion for competition and innovation and launched his first business enterprise. He is most famous for ...
William Mervin Mills (born June 30, 1938), also known by his Oglala Lakota name Tamakhóčhe Theȟíla, is an American Oglala Lakota former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the 10,000 metre run (6.2 mi) at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.