Yvette Williams in long jump at the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki.
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Yvette Williams won gold in the long jump at the 1952 Games in Helsinki. She became the first New Zealand woman to win gold at the Olympics.
Margaret Abbot was the first woman to win a Gold medal in the Olympics. She one in 1900 for golf
Gladys Davis won a silver medal at the 1924 Olympics in the Individual Women's Foil event.
Wilma Rudolph in 1960.
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.
The first Australian woman to win a gold medal was Fanny Durack, from Sydney, in the 100 meter freestyle at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.
That was Karnam Malleswari who won a bronze medal in weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. As of the 2008 Games, she is the only Indian women to win a medal at the Olympics.
Alice Coachman in high jump at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
The first woman figure skater in the Olympics was Madge Syers from Great Britain. She participated in the 1908 Games winning the Gold Medal.
Figure skater Peggy Fleming won the only gold medal for the US in the 1968 Winter Olympics.