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List of first Olympic gold medalists by country

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The following table list 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.

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Badminton player Alan Budikusuma also won a gold medal in the men's single event on the same date Susanti won the first gold for Indonesia. The men's singles final was scheduled after the women's single event.

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Edition	Country	Medalist	Sport	Event	Ref.
1896 Athens	Australia (AUS)	Edwin Flack	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres	^[2]
	Austria (AUT)	Paul Neumann	Swimming	Men's 500 metre freestyle	^[3]
	Denmark (DEN)	Viggo Jensen	Weightlifting	Men's two hand lift	^[4]
	Germany (GER)	Carl Schuhmann	Gymnastics	Men's vault	^[5]
	France (FRA)	Eugène-Henri Gravelotte	Fencing	Men's foil	^[6]
	Great Britain (GBR)	Launceston Elliot	Weightlifting	Men's one hand lift	^[7]^[8]
	Greece (GRE)	Leonidas Pyrgos	Fencing	Men's masters foil	^[9]^[10]
	Hungary (HUN)	Alfréd Hajós	Swimming	Men's 100 metre freestyle	^[11]
	Switzerland (SUI)	Louis Zutter	Gymnastics	Men's pommel horse	^[12]^[13]
	United States (USA)	James Brendan Connolly	Athletics	Men's triple jump	^[1]
1900 Paris	Belgium (BEL)	Aimé Haegeman	Equestrian	Individual jumping	^[14]
	Canada (CAN)	George Orton	Athletics	Men's 2500 metre steeplechase	^[15]
	Cuba (CUB)	Ramón Fonst	Fencing	Men's épée	^[16]
	Italy (ITA)	Gian Giorgio Trissino	Equestrian	High Jump	^[17]
	Spain (ESP)	José de Amézola Francisco Villota	Basque pelota	Men's two-man teams	^[18]
1908 London	Australasia (ANZ)	Australia national rugby union team John Barnett Phil Carmichael Daniel Carroll Bob Craig Thomas Griffen Jack Hickey Malcolm McArthur Arthur McCabe Patrick McCue Chris McKivat Charles McMurtrie Sydney Middleton Tom Richards Charles Russell Frank Smith	Rugby Union	Men's rugby union	^[19]
	Finland (FIN)	Verner Weckman	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight	^[20]
	Norway (NOR)	Men's 300 metre free rifle team Albert Helgerud Einar Liberg Olaf Sæther Ole Sæther Gudbrand Skatteboe	Shooting	Men's 300 metre free rifle, team	^[21]
	Russian Empire (RU1)	Nikolai Panin	Figure skating	Men's special figures	^[22]
	South Africa (RSA)	Reggie Walker	Athletics	Men's 100 metres	^[23]
	Sweden (SWE)	Oscar Swahn	Shooting	Men's single-shot running deer	^{[citation needed]}
1920 Antwerp	Brazil (BRA)	Guilherme Paraense	Shooting	Men's 30 m rapid fire pistol	^[24]
	Estonia (EST)	Alfred Neuland	Weightlifting	Men's 67.5 kg	^[25]
	Netherlands (NED)	Joop Carp Berend Carp Piet Wernink	Sailing	6.5 Metre	^[26]
1924 Paris	Argentina (ARG)	Argentina national polo team Arturo Kenny Juan Miles Guillermo Naylor Juan Nelson Enrique Padilla	Polo	Men's polo	^[27]
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Bedřich Šupčík	Gymnastics	Men's rope climbing	^[28]
	Uruguay (URU)	Uruguay national football team José Andrade Pedro Arispe Pedro Cea Alfredo Ghierra Andrés Mazali José Nasazzi José Naya Pedro Petrone Ángel Romano Héctor Scarone Humberto Tomasina Antonio Urdinarán Santos Urdinarán José Vidal Alfredo Zibechi Pedro Casella	Football	Men's tournament	^[29]
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	Leon Štukelj	Gymnastics	Men's horizontal bar	^[30]^[31]
1928 Amsterdam	Egypt (EGY)	El-Sayed Nosseir	Weightlifting	Men's +82.5 kg	^[32]
	India (IND)	India men's national field hockey team Richard Allen Dhyan Chand Michael Gateley William Goodsir-Cullen Leslie Hammond Feroze Khan George Marthins Rex Norris Broome Pinniger Michael Rocque Frederic Seaman Ali Shaukat Jaipal Singh Kher Singh Gill	Field hockey	Men's team	^[33]
	Ireland (IRL)	Pat O'Callaghan	Athletics	Men's hammer throw	^[34]
	Japan (JPN)	Mikio Oda	Athletics	Men's triple jump	^[35]
	New Zealand (NZL)	Ted Morgan	Boxing	Welterweight	^[36]
	Poland (POL)	Halina Konopacka	Athletics	Women's discus throw	^[37]
1936 Berlin	Turkey (TUR)	Yaşar Erkan	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman featherweight	^[38]
1948 London	Jamaica (JAM)	Arthur Wint	Athletics	Men's 400 metres	^[39]
	Mexico (MEX)	Humberto Mariles Rubén Uriza Alberto Valdés	Equestrian	Individual jumping Team Jumping	^[40]
	Peru (PER)	Edwin Vásquez	Shooting	Men's 50 metre pistol	^[41]
1952 Helsinki	Luxembourg (LUX)	Josy Barthel	Athletics	Men's 1500 metres	^[42]
	Romania (ROM)	Iosif Sîrbu	Shooting	Men's 50 metre rifle prone	^[43]
	Soviet Union (URS)	Nina Ponomaryova	Athletics	Women's discus throw	^[44]^[45]
1956 Melbourne	Bulgaria (BUL)	Nikola Stanchev	Wrestling	Men's freestyle middleweight	^[46]
1956 Melbourne	Iran (IRI)	Emamali Habibi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle lightweight	^[47]^[48]
1960 Rome	Ethiopia (ETH)	Abebe Bikila	Athletics	Men's marathon	^[49]
1960 Rome	Pakistan (PAK)	Pakistan men's national field hockey team Abdul Hamid Abdul Rashid Abdul Waheed Bashir Ahmad Ghulam Rasul Anwar Khan Khursheed Aslam Habib Ali Kiddie Manzoor Hussain Atif Munir Dar Mushtaq Ahmad Motiullah Naseer Bunda Noor Alam	Field hockey	Men's team	^[50]
1964 Tokyo	Bahamas (BAH)	Durward Knowles Cecil Cooke	Sailing	Star	^[51]
1968 Mexico City	East Germany (GDR)	Christoph Höhne	Athletics	Men's 50 kilometres walk	^[52]
	West Germany (FRG)	Ingrid Becker	Athletics	Women's pentathlon	^[52]
	Kenya (KEN)	Naftali Temu	Athletics	Men's 10,000 m	^[53]
	Tunisia (TUN)	Mohammed Gammoudi	Athletics	Men's 5000 metres	^[54]
	Venezuela (VEN)	Francisco Rodriguez	Boxing	Men's light flyweight	^[55]
1972 Munich	North Korea (PRK)	Ri Ho-jun	Shooting	Mixed 50 metre rifle prone	^[56]
1972 Munich	Uganda (UGA)	John Akii-Bua	Athletics	Men's 400 metres hurdles	^[57]
1976 Montreal	South Korea (KOR)	Yang Jung-mo	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 62 kg	^[58]
1976 Montreal	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	Hasely Crawford	Athletics	Men's 100 metres	^[59]
1980 Moscow	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	Zimbabwe women's national field hockey team Arlene Boxall Sarah English Maureen George Ann Grant Susan Huggett Patricia McKillop Brenda Phillips Christine Prinsloo Sonia Robertson Anthea Stewart Helen Volk Linda Watson Liz Chase Sandra Chick Gillian Cowley Patricia Davies	Field hockey	Women's tournament	^[60]
1984 Los Angeles	China (CHN)	Xu Haifeng	Shooting	Men's 50 m pistol	^[61]
	Morocco (MAR)	Nawal El Moutawakel	Athletics	Women's 400 metres hurdles	^[62]
	Portugal (POR)	Carlos Lopes	Athletics	Men's marathon	^[63]
1988 Seoul	Suriname (SUR)	Anthony Nesty	Swimming	Men's 100 metre butterfly	^[64]
1992 Barcelona	Algeria (ALG)	Hassiba Boulmerka	Athletics	Women's 1500 metres	^[65]
	Indonesia (INA)	Susy Susanti^{[note 1]}	Badminton	Women's singles	^[66]^[67]
	Lithuania (LTU)	Romas Ubartas	Athletics	Men's discus throw	^[68]
1996 Atlanta	Armenia (ARM)	Armen Nazaryan	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg	^[69]
	Belarus (BLR)	Ekaterina Karsten	Rowing	Women's single sculls	^[70]
	Burundi (BDI)	Vénuste Niyongabo	Athletics	Men's 5000 metres	^[71]
	Costa Rica (CRC)	Claudia Poll	Swimming	Women's 200 metre freestyle	^[72]
	Croatia (CRO)	Croatia men's national handball team Patrik Ćavar Slavko Goluža Božidar Jović Nenad Kljaić Venio Losert Valter Matošević Alvaro Načinović Goran Perkovac Iztok Puc Zlatko Saračević Irfan Smajlagić Bruno Gudelj Zoran Mikulić Vladimir Jelčić Valner Franković Vladimir Šuster	Handball	Men's tournament	^[73]
	Czech Republic (CZE)	Štěpánka Hilgertová	Canoeing	Women's slalom	^[52]
	Ecuador (ECU)	Jefferson Pérez	Athletics	Men's 20 kilometres walk	^[74]
	Hong Kong (HKG)	Lee Lai Shan	Sailing	Women's mistral	^[75]
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	Yuriy Melnichenko	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg	^[76]
	Nigeria (NGR)	Chioma Ajunwa	Athletics	Women's long jump	^[77]
	Russia (RUS)	Stanislav Pozdnyakov Olga Klochneva	Fencing Shooting	Men's sabre Women's 10 metre air pistol	^{[citation needed]}
	Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)	Aleksandra Ivošev	Shooting	Women's 50 metre rifle three positions	^[78]
	Slovakia (SVK)	Michal Martikán	Canoeing	Men's slalom C-1	^[79]
	Syria (SYR)	Ghada Shouaa	Athletics	Women's heptathlon	^[80]
	Thailand (THA)	Somluck Kamsing	Boxing	Featherweight	^[81]
	Ukraine (UKR)	Vyacheslav Oleynyk	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg	^[82]
2000 Sydney	Azerbaijan (AZE)	Zemfira Meftahatdinova	Shooting	Women's skeet	^[83]
	Colombia (COL)	María Isabel Urrutia	Weightlifting	Women's 75 kg	^[84]
	Cameroon (CMR)	Cameroon men's national football team Patrice Abanda Nicolas Alnoudji Clément Beaud Daniel Bekono Serge Branco Joël Epalle Lauren Samuel Eto'o Carlos Kameni Modeste M'bami Patrick Mboma Albert Meyong Serge Mimpo Daniel Ngom Kome Aaron Nguimbat Geremi Njitap Patrick Suffo Pierre Wome	Football	Men's tournament	^[85]
	Latvia (LAT)	Igors Vihrovs	Gymnastics	Men's floor exercises	^[86]
	Mozambique (MOZ)	Maria Mutola	Athletics	Women's 800 m	^[87]
	Slovenia (SLO)	Rajmond Debevec Iztok Čop Luka Špik	Shooting Rowing	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions Men's double sculls	^[88]
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	Mahammatkodir Abdoollayev	Boxing	Light welterweight	^[89]
2004 Athens	Chile (CHI)	Fernando González Nicolás Massú	Tennis	Men's doubles	^[90]
	Dominican Republic (DOM)	Félix Sánchez	Athletics	Men's 400 metres hurdles	^[91]
	Georgia (GEO)	Zurab Zviadauri	Judo	Men's 90 kg	^[92]
	Israel (ISR)	Gal Fridman	Sailing	Men's mistral one design	^[93]
	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	Chen Shih-hsin Chu Mu-yen	Taekwondo	Women's 49 kg Men's 58 kg	^[94]
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	Ahmad Al Maktoum	Shooting	Men's double trap	^[95]
2008 Beijing	Mongolia (MGL)	Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar	Judo	Men's 100 kg	^[96]
2008 Beijing	Panama (PAN)	Irving Saladino	Athletics	Men's long jump	^[97]
2012 London	Bahrain (BRN)	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Athletics	Women's 1500 metres	.^[98]^[99]
	Grenada (GRN)	Kirani James	Athletics	Men's 400 metres	^[100]
	Serbia (SRB)	Milica Mandić	Taekwondo	Women's +67 kg	^[101]
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Ivory Coast (CIV)	Cheick Sallah Cisse	Taekwondo	Men's 80 kg	^[102]
	Fiji (FIJ)	Fiji national rugby sevens team Jasa Veremalua Kitione Taliga Semi Kunatani Leone Nakarawa Osea Kolinisau Jerry Tuwai Samisoni Viriviri Apisai Domolailai Josua Tuisova Viliame Mata Vatemo Ravouvou Savenaca Rawaca	Rugby sevens	Men's tournament	^[103]
	Jordan (JOR)	Ahmad Abu-Ghaush	Taekwondo	Men's 68 kg	^[104]
	Kosovo (KOS)	Majlinda Kelmendi	Judo	Women's 52 kg	^[105]
	Kuwait (KUW)	Fehaid Al-Deehani^{[note 2]}	Shooting	Men's double trap	^[107]^{[circular reference]}
	Puerto Rico (PUR)	Monica Puig	Tennis	Women's singles	^[108]
	Singapore (SGP)	Joseph Schooling	Swimming	Men's 100 m butterfly	^[109]
	Tajikistan (TJK)	Dilshod Nazarov	Athletics	Men's hammer throw	^[110]
	Vietnam (VIE)	Hoàng Xuân Vinh	Shooting	Men's 10 m air pistol	^[111]
2020 Tokyo	Bermuda (BER)	Flora Duffy	Triathlon	Women's individual	^[112]
	Philippines (PHI)	Hidilyn Diaz	Weightlifting	Women's 55 kg	^[113]
	Qatar (QAT)	Fares Ibrahim	Weightlifting	Men's 96 kg	^[114]

Edition	Country	Medalist	Sport	Event	Ref.
1924 Chamonix	Austria (AUT)	Herma Szabo	Figure skating	Ladies' singles	^[115]
	Canada (CAN)	Canada men's national ice hockey team (Toronto Granites) Jack Cameron Ernie Collett Bert McCaffrey Harold McMunn Duncan Munro Beattie Ramsay Cyril Slater Reginald "Hooley" Smith Harry Watson	Ice hockey	Men's competition	^[116]
	Finland (FIN)	Clas Thunberg	Speed skating	Men's 5000 m	^[117]
	Great Britain (GBR)	Great Britain national curling team William Jackson Thomas Murray Robin Welsh Laurence Jackson	Curling^{[note 3]}	Men's event	^[118]^[119]
	Norway (NOR)	Thorleif Haug	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km	^[120]
	Sweden (SWE)	Gillis Grafström	Figure skating	Men's singles	^[121]
	Switzerland (SUI)	Switzerland national military patrol team Adolf Aufdenblatten Alphonse Julen Antoine Julen Denis Vaucher	Military patrol	Men's event	^[122]
	United States (USA)	Charles Jewtraw	Speed skating	Men's 500 m	^[123]
1928 St. Moritz	France (FRA)	Andrée Joly Pierre Brunet	Figure skating	Pairs	^[124]
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Germany (GER)	Christl Cranz	Alpine skiing	Women's combined	^[125]
1948 St. Moritz	Belgium (BEL)	Micheline Lannoy Pierre Baugniet	Figure skating	Pairs	^[126]
1948 St. Moritz	Italy (ITA)	Nino Bibbia	Skeleton	Men's individual	^[127]
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Soviet Union (URS)	Lyubov Kozyreva	Cross-country	Women's 10 km	^[128]
1964 Innsbruck	Netherlands (NED)	Sjoukje Dijkstra	Figure skating	Ladies	^[26]
1968 Grenoble	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Jiří Raška	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill	^[129]
	East Germany (GDR)	Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler	Luge	Men's doubles	^[130]
	West Germany (FRG)	Franz Keller Erhard Keller	Nordic combined Speed skating	Men's individual Men's 500m	^[131]^[132]
1972 Sapporo	Japan (JPN)	Yukio Kasaya	Ski jumping	Normal hill individual	^[133]^[134]
	Poland (POL)	Wojciech Fortuna	Ski jumping	Large hill individual	^[135]
	Spain (ESP)	Francisco Fernández Ochoa	Alpine skiing	Men's slalom	^[136]
1980 Lake Placid	Liechtenstein (LIE)	Hanni Wenzel	Alpine skiing	Women's giant slalom	^[137]
1992 Albertville	South Korea (KOR)	Kim Ki-hoon	Short track speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	^[138]
1994 Lillehammer	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	Vladimir Smirnov	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km (classical)	^[139]
	Russia (RUS)	Aleksandr Golubev	Speed skating	Men's 500 m	^[140]
	Ukraine (UKR)	Oksana Baiul	Figure skating	Women's singles	^[141]
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	Lina Cheryazova	Freestyle skiing	Women's aerials	^[142]
1998 Nagano	Bulgaria (BUL)	Ekaterina Dafovska	Biathlon	Women's individual	^[143]
1998 Nagano	Czech Republic (CZE)	Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team Jan Čaloun Roman Čechmánek Jiří Dopita Roman Hamrlík Dominik Hašek Milan Hejduk Milan Hnilička Jaromír Jágr František Kučera Robert Lang David Moravec Pavel Patera Libor Procházka Martin Procházka Robert Reichel Martin Ručinský Vladimír Růžička Jiří Šlégr Richard Šmehlík Jaroslav Špaček Martin Straka Petr Svoboda	Ice hockey	Men's competition	^[144]
2002 Salt Lake	Australia (AUS)	Steven Bradbury	Speed skating	Men's 1000 m	^[145]
	China (CHN)	Yang Yang	Speed skating	Women's 500 m	^[145]
	Croatia (CRO)	Janica Kostelić	Alpine skiing	Women's combined	^[146]
	Estonia (EST)	Andrus Veerpalu	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km	^[147]
2010 Vancouver	Belarus (BLR)	Alexei Grishin	Freestyle skiing	Men's aerials	^[148]
2010 Vancouver	Slovakia (SVK)	Anastasiya Kuzmina	Biathlon	Women's sprint	^[149]
2014 Sochi	Latvia (LAT)	Latvia national four-man bobsleigh team Oskars Melbārdis Arvis Vilkaste Daumants Dreiškens Jānis Strenga	Bobsleigh	Four-man	^[150]
2014 Sochi	Slovenia (SLO)	Tina Maze	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill	^[151]
2018 Pyeongchang	Hungary (HUN)	Hungary men's national short track speed skating team Csaba Burján Viktor Knoch Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu	Short track speed skating	Men's 5000 metre relay	^[152]
2022 Beijing	New Zealand (NZL)	Zoi Sadowski-Synnott	Snowboarding	Women's slopestyle event	^[153]

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List of first Olympic gold medalists by country

Summer Olympics

Winter Olympics

See also

Notes

References

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