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Gold Silver Bronze 1896 Athens details: Alfred Flatow Germany: Louis Zutter Switzerland: none awarded: 1900 Paris: not included in the Olympic program: 1904 St. Louis details: George Eyser United States: Anton Heida United States: John Duha United States: 1908–1920: not included in the Olympic program: 1924 Paris details: August Güttinger ...
First medalists by NOC at the Summer Olympic Games Edition NOC Medal Medalist(s) Sport Event Refs; 1896 Athens Australia (AUS) Gold: Edwin Flack: Athletics: Men's 1500 metres [11] Austria (AUT) Silver: Otto Herschmann: Swimming: Men's 100 metre freestyle [12] Denmark (DEN) Gold: Viggo Jensen: Weightlifting: Men's two hand lift [13] France (FRA ...
Note: The International Gymnastics Federation recommended to the IOC that the medals of the Chinese team be stripped, and awarded to the fourth-placed United States team, as it was revealed that Dong Fangxiao was underage (14, with age limit >16) at the time. The IOC upheld the FIG decision in April 2010.
That year, Gabby Douglas won the gold medal in individual all-around, and Aly Raisman won the gold medal on floor exercise and the bronze medal on balance beam. McKayla Maroney won silver on vault. [12] [13] In 2016 the U.S. won the team gold medal for the second consecutive Olympics, and the third title overall. The team was nicknamed "The ...
All of the gymnastics events were held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles from July 29 through August 11. Several countries who had qualified to compete were absent as a result of the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott , including the Soviet Union , Bulgaria , Cuba , Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Hungary , and North Korea .
The individual all-around is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the second modern Olympics in 1900, and has been held every Games since. The women's competition was added in 1952.
The following table lists the first Olympic gold medal won by each National Olympic Committee (NOC). James Brendan Connolly of the United States is credited as the first ever gold medalist of the modern Olympic Games. [1] In some cases, a NOC may garner multiple gold medals in the same edition where it won its first ever gold medal.
Although extensive results detailing the performance of the men gymnasts, both teams and individuals, were published in the Official Olympic Report for these 1928 Summer Olympic Games, only the team results (both combined and with respect to exercise) were published for the women, providing no information whatsoever about the capacities of the various individual women who competed here.