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âThe Olympianâ: A Story Of The First Black Gold Medalist Even though the Collingsdale, Pa., cemetery contains the bodies of several black luminaries -- including civil rights leader Octavius Valentine Catto and opera singer Marian Anderson -- Williams didn't come for any of these big names. He was there to see John Taylor, the first African American to win Olympic gold. Taylor was a college graduate and a star athlete, recognized for his success even by then president Theodore Roosevelt. But in 1908, the same year he medaled at the Olympic games in London, he died of typhoid pneumonia.
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China at the Olympics Chen Ding won gold in men's 20 km walk, becoming the second Chinese male athlete to win Olympic athletics gold medal after Liu Xiang did in 2004. Chen Ruolin won two golds in diving, becoming the second Chinese diver to defend two events successfully after Guo Jingjing.
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- Shaun White is the first athlete to win a Gold medal at the Summer and Winter X Games.
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Vonetta Flowers After several failed attempts, Flowers turned to bobsledding, and found success as a brakewoman almost immediately. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she, along with driver Jill Bakken, won the gold medal in the two-woman event, becoming the first black person to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics. After the Salt Lake City Games, Flowers gave birth to twins and took some time off from the sport.
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Usain Boltâs Best Races, Ranked On Sunday night in Rio de Janeiro, Usain Bolt won the 100-meter dash at the Olympics for the third time, chasing down Justin Gatlin to become the first man in history to win three gold medals in track’s showcase event. He was already the best ever going into the Rio Games. Now he needs a trophy case for his trophy cases.
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No three-peat: Shani Davis misses out on medal in 1,000 His non-medal finish stands as one of the most unfathomable results in Sochi: Davis had owned the event since the 2006 Torino Games, when he claimed the first of two Olympic gold medals in a row, and entered the 1,000 final as the clear favorite among a top-heavy list of skaters.  1 There's no excuse, Davis said.
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- awards and honors. Gabby Douglas, in full Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas (born December 31, 1995, Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.), gymnast who, at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, became both the first American to claim gold medals in the team and individual all-around events and the first African American to win the all-around title.
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- Athletes with Winter and Summer Medals. In Sochi 2014, Lauryn Williams won the silver medal in the two-woman bobsleigh event to become only the fifth athlete ever to have won medals in both the Winter and Summer Olympics. This is the list: * Eddie Eagan, USA (2/0/0) SUMMER: Light Heavyweight Boxing gold (1920) WINTER: Four-man Bobsled gold (1932) Eddie Eagan became the first person to win a medal in the Winter Olympics and in the Summer Olympics in different events. He is the only Summer and Winter medalist to win Gold medals in different events. She is the only athlete to ever win medals in both Winter and Summer Games in the same year.
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âThe Olympianâ: A Story Of The First Black Gold Medalist 'The Olympian': A Story Of The First Black Gold Medalist. Craig Williams walked through the gates of Eden Cemetery, the oldest African American cemetery in the U.S., one fall day in 2007.
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Owens wins 4th gold medal A+E Networks. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, African American track star Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal of the Games in the 4×100-meter relay. His relay team set a new world record of 39.8 seconds, which held for 20 years.
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- 1 2001 - Denzel Washington became the only black Academy Award winner to win both lead and supporting actor Oscars after wins for Glory and Training Day.  2002 - Halle Berry becomes the first African-American woman to win the Academy Award for best actress for her role in Monster’s Ball.
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Blackfeet activist Elouise Cobell awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom Blackfeet activist Elouise Cobell awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. Eloise Campbell, who died in 2011, was instrumental in obtaining a $3.4 billion Indian trust settlement from the federal government.
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For U.S. Men in Triple Jump, a Gold, a Silver and a âYesâ For U.S. Men in Triple Jump, a Gold, a Silver and a ‘Yes’. Christian Taylor’s winning jump of 17.86 meters came on his first attempt. He was unable to surpass the world record, 18.29 meters. RIO DE JANEIRO — It was a win-win competition for the Americans in the triple-jump final: Christian Taylor got the gold and Will Claye got the girl. And while breakfast at Olympic Stadium failed to produce a world record, it supplied a buffet of ambrosial outcomes.
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Thursday, 25 August 2016 12:45 PM BSTA Point in Time: Althea Gibson's barrier-breakerWimbledon.com takes a look back at some of the best and most signicant points in Wimbledon's history. READ MORE Gibson, who was born 89 years ago today, was as pioneering as they come in tennis history. The sport’s answer to Jackie Robinson, it was she who became the first African-American player to win amongst the all-white outfits of Wimbledon.
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In Gymnastics, U.S. Flies High and Stands Alone Aly Raisman, left, and Jordyn Wieber celebrating the first Olympic team gold medal for the United States women since the Magnificent Seven won it in 1996. Credit Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
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10 Things You May Not Know About Jesse Owens Owens captured four gold medals at a single Olympiad. Although Adolf Hitler intended the 1936 Berlin Games to be a showcase for the Nazi ideology of Aryan racial supremacy, it was a black man who left the biggest imprint on that year’s Games.
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- In the women’s tournament, Canada became the first team to win four consecutive gold medals in any women’s sport at the Olympic Winter Games when Marie-Philip Poulin (Beauceville, Que./Boston University, HE) scored at 8:10 of overtime to complete Canada’s comeback from a 2-0 deficit in the final four minutes.
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Did any British women win medals in the 1960 Olympics? One British woman won gold in 1960 and that was Anita Lonsbrough in the 200 meter breaststroke. Payment for winning Olympic medals varies by country. The United States Olympic Committee pays its medal winners $25,000 to gold medal winners, $15,000 to those who take hom…e a silver and $10,000 for a bronze.
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Biography In three of his events, Owens -- who became the first American in the history of track and field to win four gold medals in a single Olympics, a feat not duplicated until 1984, when Carl Lewis won gold medals in the same events at the Warsaw Pact nations-free 1984 Summer Olympics) -- established Olympic records.
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Gabby Douglas Gabby Douglas, in full Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas, (born December 31, 1995, Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.), gymnast who, at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, became both the first American to claim gold medals in the team and individual all-around events and the first African American to win the all-around title.
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Eddie Eagan Edward Patrick Francis Eagan (April 26, 1897 – June 14, 1967) was an American sportsman who is notable as being the only person to win a gold medal at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in different events. Gillis Grafström won gold in both the Summer and Winter
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- 1 1940 - Hattie McDaniel was the first black person to win an Oscar, after winning best supporting actress for her role in Gone With the Wind.  1945 - Ebony magazine is founded by John H. Johnson and is an instant success.
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Wilma Rudolph, 1940-1994: 'The Fastest Woman in the World' Wilma Rudolph, 1940-1994: 'The Fastest Woman in the World'. I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics. They called her the Black Pearl, the Black Gazelle and the fastest woman in the world.. In nineteen sixty, Wilma Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics. She was an extraordinary American athlete. She also did a lot to help young athletes succeed.
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Shani Davis wins Olympic gold with flawless form Shani Davis wins Olympic gold with flawless form Speedskater Shani Davis successfully defended his gold medal in 1,000-meter Olympic speedskating. In 2006, he became the first African-American to win individual gold in the Winter Games. By Christa Case Bryant, Staff Writer February 17, 2010
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Claudia Fragapane Claudia Fragapane. Fragapane at the 2015 European Championships. Claudia Fragapane (born 24 October 1997 in Bristol) is a British artistic gymnast. She came to prominence at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she was the first English woman to win four gold medals since 1930.