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.
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.
Summer Olympics
Edition Country Medalist Sport Event Ref. 1896 Athens Edwin Flack Athletics Men's 1500 metres Paul Neumann Swimming Men's 500 metre freestyle Viggo Jensen Weightlifting Men's two hand lift Carl Schuhmann Gymnastics Men's vault Eugène-Henri Gravelotte Fencing Men's foil Launceston Elliot Weightlifting Men's one hand lift Leonidas Pyrgos Fencing Men's masters foil David Wallechinsky (2004), The Complete Book of the Olympics 2004. Aurum Press. p.627. Alfréd Hajós Swimming Men's 100 metre freestyle Louis Zutter Gymnastics Men's pommel horse James Brendan Connolly Athletics Men's triple jump 1900 Paris Aimé Haegeman Equestrian Individual jumping Ramón Fonst Fencing Men's épée Gian Giorgio Trissino Equestrian High Jump François BrandtHermanus BrockmannRoelof KleinRowingCoxed pair José de AmézolaFrancisco Villota Basque pelota Men's two-man teams 1904 St. Louis Lacrosse Men's team 1908 London Rugby Union Men's rugby union Verner Weckman Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight Shooting Men's 300 metre free rifle, team Nikolai Panin Figure skating Men's special figures Reggie Walker Athletics Men's 100 metres Oscar Swahn Shooting Men's single-shot running deer 1920 Antwerp Guilherme Paraense Shooting Men's 30 m rapid fire pistol Alfred Neuland Weightlifting Men's 67.5 kg 1924 Paris Polo Men's polo Bedřich Šupčík Gymnastics Men's rope climbing FootballMen's tournament Leon Štukelj Gymnastics Men's horizontal bar 1928 Amsterdam El-Sayed Nosseir Weightlifting Men's +82.5 kg Field hockey Men's team Pat O'Callaghan Athletics Men's hammer throw Mikio Oda Athletics Men's triple jump Ted Morgan Boxing Welterweight Halina Konopacka Athletics Women's discus throw 1936 Berlin Yaşar Erkan Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman featherweight 1948 London Arthur Wint Athletics Men's 400 metres Humberto Mariles Rubén Uriza Alberto Valdés Equestrian Individual jumpingTeam Jumping Edwin Vásquez Shooting Men's 50 metre pistol 1952 Helsinki Josy Barthel Athletics Men's 1500 metres Iosif Sîrbu Shooting Men's 50 metre rifle prone Nina Ponomaryova Athletics Women's discus throw 1956 Melbourne Nikola Stanchev Wrestling Men's freestyle middleweight Emamali Habibi Wrestling Men's freestyle lightweight 1960 Rome Abebe Bikila Athletics Men's marathon Field hockey Men's team 1964 Tokyo Sailing Star 1968 Mexico City Christoph Höhne Athletics Men's 50 kilometres walk Ingrid Becker Athletics Women's pentathlon Naftali Temu Athletics Men's 10,000 m Mohammed Gammoudi Athletics Men's 5000 metres Francisco Rodriguez Boxing Men's light flyweight 1972 Munich Ri Ho-jun Shooting Mixed 50 metre rifle prone John Akii-Bua Athletics Men's 400 metres hurdles 1976 Montreal Yang Jung-mo Wrestling Men's freestyle 62 kg Hasely Crawford Athletics Men's 100 metres 1980 Moscow Field hockeyWomen's tournament 1984 Los Angeles Xu Haifeng Shooting Men's 50 m pistol Nawal El Moutawakel Athletics Women's 400 metres hurdles Carlos Lopes Athletics Men's marathon 1988 Seoul Anthony Nesty Swimming Men's 100 metre butterfly 1992 Barcelona Hassiba BoulmerkaAthletics Women's 1500 metres Susy Susanti Badminton Women's singles Romas Ubartas Athletics Men's discus throw 1996 Atlanta Armen NazaryanWrestling Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg Ekaterina KarstenRowing Women's single sculls Vénuste NiyongaboAthletics Men's 5000 metres Claudia Poll Swimming Women's 200 metre freestyle HandballMen's tournament Štěpánka Hilgertová Canoeing Women's slalom Jefferson Pérez Athletics Men's 20 kilometres walk Lee Lai Shan Sailing Women's mistral Yuriy Melnichenko Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg Chioma AjunwaAthletics Women's long jump Stanislav Pozdnyakov Fencing Men's sabre Olga KlochnevaShootingWomen's 10 metre air pistol Aleksandra Ivošev Shooting Women's 50 metre rifle three positions Michal Martikán Canoeing Men's slalom C-1 Ghada Shouaa Athletics Women's heptathlon Somluck Kamsing Boxing Featherweight Vyacheslav Oleynyk Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg 2000 Sydney Zemfira MeftahatdinovaShooting Women's skeet María Isabel Urrutia Weightlifting Women's 75 kg FootballMen's tournament Igors Vihrovs Gymnastics Men's floor exercises Maria Mutola Athletics Women's 800 m Rajmond Debevec Shooting Men's 50 metre rifle three positions Iztok Čop Luka ŠpikRowingMen's double sculls Mahammatkodir Abdoollayev Boxing Light welterweight 2004 Athens TennisMen's doubles Félix Sánchez Athletics Men's 400 metres hurdles Zurab Zviadauri Judo Men's 90 kg Gal Fridman Sailing Men's mistral one design Chen Shih-hsin Taekwondo Women's 49 kg Chu Mu-yenTaekwondoMen's 58 kg Ahmad Al Maktoum Shooting Men's double trap 2008 Beijing Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar Judo Men's 100 kg Irving Saladino Athletics Men's long jump Minshull, Phil (7 August 2014). Adios Irving! Saladino announces his retirement. IAAF. Retrieved on 19 July 2016. 2012 London Maryam Yusuf Jamal Athletics Women's 1500 metres Kirani James Athletics Men's 400 metres Milica Mandić Taekwondo Women's +67 kg 2016 Rio de Janeiro Cheick Sallah Cisse Taekwondo Men's 80 kg Rugby sevens Men's tournament Ahmad Abu-Ghaush Taekwondo Men's 68 kg Majlinda Kelmendi Judo Women's 52 kg Fehaid Al-Deehani Shooting Men's double trap Monica Puig Tennis Women's singles Joseph Schooling Swimming Men's 100 m butterfly Dilshod Nazarov Athletics Men's hammer throw Hoàng Xuân Vinh Shooting Men's 10 m air pistol 2020 Tokyo Flora Duffy Triathlon Women's individual Hidilyn Diaz Weightlifting Women's 55 kg Fares Ibrahim Weightlifting Men's 96 kg 2024 Paris Letsile Tebogo Athletics Men's 200 metres Thea LaFond Athletics Women's triple jump Adriana Ruano Shooting Women's trap Julien Alfred Athletics Women's 100 metres
Winter Olympics Edition Country Medalist Sport Event Ref. 1924 Chamonix Herma Szabo Figure skating Ladies' singles Ice hockey Men's competition Clas Thunberg Speed skating Men's 5000 m Curling Men's event Thorleif Haug Cross-country skiing Men's 50 km Gillis Grafström Figure skating Men's singles Military patrol Men's event Charles Jewtraw Speed skating Men's 500 m 1928 St. Moritz Andrée JolyPierre Brunet Figure skating Pairs 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Christl Cranz Alpine skiing Women's combined 1948 St. Moritz Micheline Lannoy Pierre Baugniet Figure skating Pairs Nino Bibbia Skeleton Men's individual 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Lyubov Kozyreva Cross-country Women's 10 km 1964 Innsbruck Sjoukje DijkstraFigure skatingLadies 1968 Grenoble Jiří RaškaSki jumpingMen's normal hill Klaus-Michael BonsackThomas Köhler Luge Men's doubles Franz Keller Nordic combined Men's individual Erhard KellerSpeed skatingMen's 500m 1972 Sapporo Yukio Kasaya Ski jumping Normal hill individual Wojciech Fortuna Ski jumping Large hill individual Francisco Fernández Ochoa Alpine skiing Men's slalom 1980 Lake Placid Hanni Wenzel Alpine skiing Women's giant slalom 1992 Albertville Kim Ki-hoon Short track speed skating Men's 1000 metres 1994 Lillehammer Vladimir Smirnov Cross-country skiing Men's 50 km (classical) Aleksandr Golubev Speed skating Men's 500 m Oksana Baiul Figure skating Women's singles Lina Cheryazova Freestyle skiing Women's aerials 1998 Nagano Ekaterina Dafovska Biathlon Women's individual Ice hockey Men's competition 2002 Salt Lake Steven Bradbury Short track speed skating Men's 1000 m Yang Yang Short track speed skating Women's 500 m Janica Kostelić Alpine skiing Women's combined Andrus Veerpalu Cross-country skiing Men's 15 km 2010 Vancouver Alexei Grishin Freestyle skiing Men's aerials Anastasiya Kuzmina Biathlon Women's sprint 2014 Sochi Bobsleigh Four-man Tina Maze Alpine skiing Women's downhill 2018 Pyeongchang Short track speed skating Men's 5000 metre relay 2022 Beijing Zoi Sadowski-Synnott Snowboarding Women's slopestyle event 2026 Milan–Cortina d'Ampezzo Lucas Pinheiro Braathen Alpine skiing Men's giant slalom
See also List of first Olympic medalists by National Olympic Committee All-time Olympic Games medal table Olympic sports
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