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. Scheduling of events is a factor that plays a part in who is considered the first Olympic gold medalist for a nation.
Names in italic are national entities that no longer exist.
This article only considers gold medals in sports competitions, therefore those from art competitions are not included. [A]
On 6 April 1896, the American James Connolly won the triple jump to become the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years. He also finished second in the high jump and third in the long jump.
On 9 April 1896, Carl Schuhmann won the vault and thus became the first German Olympic champion.
Spain's first Olympic medal, a gold, came at the 1900 Games in Paris in the sport of Basque pelota. The sport originates from the Basque area of northern Spain and southern France and was never again contested at the Olympic Games.
All the more is the figure skater Nikolai Panin held in esteem, who in 1908 in London was the first Russian sportsman to win an Olympic gold medal.
Nina Ponomareva, a champion discus thrower who earned the Soviet Union its first Olympic gold medal when she competed in the 1952 Helsinki Games
Iran secured its first Olympic gold medals at the 1956 Games in Melbourne, where freestyle wrestlers Emamali Habibi [66kg] and Gholamreza Takhti [90kg] both won their divisions.
Emamali Habibi became Iran's first Olympic wrestling champion in Melbourne, Australia in 1956 and his achievement was matched one day later by Gholamreza Takhti.
Taiwan Winter Olympics Boycott.
For us Indonesians, Susy Susanti will always be remembered as the first Indonesian Olympic gold medalist, a prestigious honor she won at the Barcelona Summer Olympics in 1992", "Susy's significant other, Alan Budikusuma, won the gold medal in the men's singles following her victory.