Most winners would get cups or trophies instead of medals.
That was Margaret Abbott in women's golf at the 1900 Games in Paris.
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The first winners of the Olympics won an olive wreaths or crowns.
Women's singles tennis and mixed doubles tennis (with partner Reggie Doherty).
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I don't know that history has recorded the first woman to compete in the Olympics. History has recorded that the first woman to win a gold medal was Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain who won gold in ladies singles tennis in the 1900 Olympics in Paris. The 1900 Olympics were the second Olympics of the modern era and the first that women were allowed to compete in. Women were not allowed to compete in the first modern Olympics held in Greece in 1896.
396 BC Cynisca of Sparta was permitted to enter her horses in the Olympics. Back then it was the owner of the horses not the riders that were awarded with victory in the Olympics. Cynisca won the 4 horse chariot race. In a bit of irony women were not allowed to watch the Olympics and she most likely never even witnessed her win. PCH- 1912
Yes. if you are asking about metal it actually is gold plated silver.
Charlotte Cooper was a very good tennis player who won the first medal awarded to a female athlete in the modern Olympics(in Paris in 1900). She also eventually won Wimbledon 5 times.
In the Ancient Olympics it is recorded as a spartan princess called Kynisca in 392BC. In the Modern Day Olympics (1896) there was an unofficial competitor in the marathon - Stamata Revithi The first acknowledged competed at the 1900 in Paris. Yachting, Equestrian, Croquet, Tennis, Golf and Ballooning. First Gold medal Helen de Pourtales, Switzerland, Yachting mixed event and Charlotte Cooper, Great Britain, Tennis individual womens event.