# List of first Olympic gold medalists by country

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.
Names in italic are national entities that no longer exist.

## Summer Olympics

| Edition | Country | Medalist | Sport | Event |
| 1896 Athens | Australia (AUS) | Edwin Flack | Athletics | Men's 1500 metres |
| 1896 Athens | Austria (AUT) | Paul Neumann | Swimming | Men's 500 metre freestyle |
| 1896 Athens | Denmark (DEN) | Viggo Jensen | Weightlifting | Men's two hand lift |
| 1896 Athens | Germany (GER) | Carl Schuhmann | Gymnastics | Men's vault |
| 1896 Athens | France (FRA) | Eugène-Henri Gravelotte | Fencing | Men's foil |
| 1896 Athens | Great Britain (GBR) | Launceston Elliot | Weightlifting | Men's one hand lift |
| 1896 Athens | Greece (GRE) | Leonidas Pyrgos | Fencing | Men's masters foil |
| 1896 Athens | Hungary (HUN) | Alfréd Hajós | Swimming | Men's 100 metre freestyle |
| 1896 Athens | Switzerland (SUI) | Louis Zutter | Gymnastics | Men's pommel horse |
| 1896 Athens | United States (USA) | James Brendan Connolly | Athletics | Men's triple jump |
| 1900 Paris | Belgium (BEL) | Aimé Haegeman | Equestrian | Individual jumping |
| 1900 Paris | Cuba (CUB) | Ramón Fonst | Fencing | Men's épée |
| 1900 Paris | Italy (ITA) | Gian Giorgio Trissino | Equestrian | High Jump |
| 1900 Paris | Netherlands (NED) | François Brandt Hermanus Brockmann Roelof Klein | Rowing | Coxed pair |
| 1900 Paris | Spain (ESP) | José de Amézola Francisco Villota | Basque pelota | Men's two-man teams |
| 1904 St. Louis | Canada (CAN) | Winnipeg Shamrocks | Lacrosse | Men's team |
| 1908 London | Australasia (ANZ) | Australia national rugby union team John BarnettPhil CarmichaelDaniel CarrollBob CraigThomas GriffenJack HickeyMalcolm McArthurArthur McCabePatrick McCueChris McKivatCharles McMurtrieSydney MiddletonTom RichardsCharles RussellFrank Smith | Rugby Union | Men's rugby union |
| 1908 London | Finland (FIN) | Verner Weckman | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight |
| 1908 London | Norway (NOR) | Men's 300 metre free rifle team Albert HelgerudEinar LibergOlaf SætherOle SætherGudbrand Skatteboe | Shooting | Men's 300 metre free rifle, team |
| 1908 London | Russian Empire (RU1) | Nikolai Panin | Figure skating | Men's special figures |
| 1908 London | South Africa (RSA) | Reggie Walker | Athletics | Men's 100 metres |
| 1908 London | Sweden (SWE) | Oscar Swahn | Shooting | Men's single-shot running deer |
| 1920 Antwerp | Brazil (BRA) | Guilherme Paraense | Shooting | Men's 30 m rapid fire pistol |
| 1920 Antwerp | Estonia (EST) | Alfred Neuland | Weightlifting | Men's 67.5 kg |
| 1924 Paris | Argentina (ARG) | Argentina national polo team Arturo KennyJuan MilesGuillermo NaylorJuan NelsonEnrique Padilla | Polo | Men's polo |
| 1924 Paris | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | Bedřich Šupčík | Gymnastics | Men's rope climbing |
| 1924 Paris | 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 |
| 1924 Paris | Yugoslavia (YUG) | Leon Štukelj | Gymnastics | Men's horizontal bar |
| 1928 Amsterdam | Egypt (EGY) | El-Sayed Nosseir | Weightlifting | Men's +82.5 kg |
| 1928 Amsterdam | India (IND) | India men's national field hockey team Richard AllenDhyan ChandMichael GateleyWilliam Goodsir-CullenLeslie HammondFeroze KhanGeorge MarthinsRex NorrisBroome PinnigerMichael RocqueFrederic SeamanAli ShaukatJaipal SinghKher Singh Gill | Field hockey | Men's team |
| 1928 Amsterdam | Ireland (IRL) | Pat O'Callaghan | Athletics | Men's hammer throw |
| 1928 Amsterdam | Japan (JPN) | Mikio Oda | Athletics | Men's triple jump |
| 1928 Amsterdam | New Zealand (NZL) | Ted Morgan | Boxing | Welterweight |
| 1928 Amsterdam | Poland (POL) | Halina Konopacka | Athletics | Women's discus throw |
| 1936 Berlin | Turkey (TUR) | Yaşar Erkan | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman featherweight |
| 1948 London | Jamaica (JAM) | Arthur Wint | Athletics | Men's 400 metres |
| 1948 London | Mexico (MEX) | Humberto Mariles Rubén Uriza Alberto Valdés | Equestrian | Individual jumping Team Jumping |
| 1948 London | Peru (PER) | Edwin Vásquez | Shooting | Men's 50 metre pistol |
| 1952 Helsinki | Luxembourg (LUX) | Josy Barthel | Athletics | Men's 1500 metres |
| 1952 Helsinki | Romania (ROM) | Iosif Sîrbu | Shooting | Men's 50 metre rifle prone |
| 1952 Helsinki | Soviet Union (URS) | Nina Ponomaryova | Athletics | Women's discus throw |
| 1956 Melbourne | Bulgaria (BUL) | Nikola Stanchev | Wrestling | Men's freestyle middleweight |
| 1956 Melbourne | Iran (IRI) | Emamali Habibi | Wrestling | Men's freestyle lightweight |
| 1960 Rome | Ethiopia (ETH) | Abebe Bikila | Athletics | Men's marathon |
| 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 |
| 1964 Tokyo | Bahamas (BAH) | Durward Knowles Cecil Cooke | Sailing | Star |
| 1968 Mexico City | East Germany (GDR) | Christoph Höhne | Athletics | Men's 50 kilometres walk |
| 1968 Mexico City | West Germany (FRG) | Ingrid Becker | Athletics | Women's pentathlon |
| 1968 Mexico City | Kenya (KEN) | Naftali Temu | Athletics | Men's 10,000 m |
| 1968 Mexico City | Tunisia (TUN) | Mohammed Gammoudi | Athletics | Men's 5000 metres |
| 1968 Mexico City | Venezuela (VEN) | Francisco Rodriguez | Boxing | Men's light flyweight |
| 1972 Munich | North Korea (PRK) | Ri Ho-jun | Shooting | Mixed 50 metre rifle prone |
| 1972 Munich | Uganda (UGA) | John Akii-Bua | Athletics | Men's 400 metres hurdles |
| 1976 Montreal | South Korea (KOR) | Yang Jung-mo | Wrestling | Men's freestyle 62 kg |
| 1976 Montreal | Trinidad and Tobago (TTO) | Hasely Crawford | Athletics | Men's 100 metres |
| 1980 Moscow | Zimbabwe (ZIM) | Zimbabwe women's national field hockey team Arlene BoxallSarah EnglishMaureen GeorgeAnn GrantSusan HuggettPatricia McKillopBrenda PhillipsChristine PrinslooSonia RobertsonAnthea StewartHelen VolkLinda WatsonLiz ChaseSandra ChickGillian CowleyPatricia Davies | Field hockey | Women's tournament |
| 1984 Los Angeles | China (CHN) | Xu Haifeng | Shooting | Men's 50 m pistol |
| 1984 Los Angeles | Morocco (MAR) | Nawal El Moutawakel | Athletics | Women's 400 metres hurdles |
| 1984 Los Angeles | Portugal (POR) | Carlos Lopes | Athletics | Men's marathon |
| 1988 Seoul | Suriname (SUR) | Anthony Nesty | Swimming | Men's 100 metre butterfly |
| 1992 Barcelona | Algeria (ALG) | Hassiba Boulmerka | Athletics | Women's 1500 metres |
| 1992 Barcelona | Indonesia (INA) | Susy Susanti | Badminton | Women's singles |
| 1992 Barcelona | Lithuania (LTU) | Romas Ubartas | Athletics | Men's discus throw |
| 1996 Atlanta | Armenia (ARM) | Armen Nazaryan | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg |
| 1996 Atlanta | Belarus (BLR) | Ekaterina Karsten | Rowing | Women's single sculls |
| 1996 Atlanta | Burundi (BDI) | Vénuste Niyongabo | Athletics | Men's 5000 metres |
| 1996 Atlanta | Costa Rica (CRC) | Claudia Poll | Swimming | Women's 200 metre freestyle |
| 1996 Atlanta | Croatia (CRO) | Croatia men's national handball team Patrik ĆavarSlavko GolužaBožidar JovićNenad KljaićVenio LosertValter MatoševićAlvaro NačinovićGoran PerkovacIztok PucZlatko SaračevićIrfan SmajlagićBruno GudeljZoran MikulićVladimir JelčićValner FrankovićVladimir Šuster | Handball | Men's tournament |
| 1996 Atlanta | Czech Republic (CZE) | Štěpánka Hilgertová | Canoeing | Women's slalom |
| 1996 Atlanta | Ecuador (ECU) | Jefferson Pérez | Athletics | Men's 20 kilometres walk |
| 1996 Atlanta | Hong Kong (HKG) | Lee Lai Shan | Sailing | Women's mistral |
| 1996 Atlanta | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | Yuriy Melnichenko | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg |
| 1996 Atlanta | Nigeria (NGR) | Chioma Ajunwa | Athletics | Women's long jump |
| 1996 Atlanta | Russia (RUS) | Stanislav Pozdnyakov | Fencing | Men's sabre |
| 1996 Atlanta | Russia (RUS) | Olga Klochneva | Shooting | Women's 10 metre air pistol |
| 1996 Atlanta | Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) | Aleksandra Ivošev | Shooting | Women's 50 metre rifle three positions |
| 1996 Atlanta | Slovakia (SVK) | Michal Martikán | Canoeing | Men's slalom C-1 |
| 1996 Atlanta | Syria (SYR) | Ghada Shouaa | Athletics | Women's heptathlon |
| 1996 Atlanta | Thailand (THA) | Somluck Kamsing | Boxing | Featherweight |
| 1996 Atlanta | Ukraine (UKR) | Vyacheslav Oleynyk | Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg |
| 2000 Sydney | Azerbaijan (AZE) | Zemfira Meftahatdinova | Shooting | Women's skeet |
| 2000 Sydney | Colombia (COL) | María Isabel Urrutia | Weightlifting | Women's 75 kg |
| 2000 Sydney | Cameroon (CMR) | Cameroon men's national football team Patrice AbandaNicolas AlnoudjiClément BeaudDaniel BekonoSerge BrancoJoël EpalleLaurenSamuel Eto'oCarlos KameniModeste M'bamiPatrick MbomaAlbert MeyongSerge MimpoDaniel Ngom Kome Aaron NguimbatGeremi NjitapPatrick SuffoPierre Wome | Football | Men's tournament |
| 2000 Sydney | Latvia (LAT) | Igors Vihrovs | Gymnastics | Men's floor exercises |
| 2000 Sydney | Mozambique (MOZ) | Maria Mutola | Athletics | Women's 800 m |
| 2000 Sydney | Slovenia (SLO) | Rajmond Debevec | Shooting | Men's 50 metre rifle three positions |
| 2000 Sydney | Slovenia (SLO) | Iztok Čop Luka Špik | Rowing | Men's double sculls |
| 2000 Sydney | Uzbekistan (UZB) | Mahammatkodir Abdoollayev | Boxing | Light welterweight |
| 2004 Athens | Chile (CHI) | Fernando González Nicolás Massú | Tennis | Men's doubles |
| 2004 Athens | Dominican Republic (DOM) | Félix Sánchez | Athletics | Men's 400 metres hurdles |
| 2004 Athens | Georgia (GEO) | Zurab Zviadauri | Judo | Men's 90 kg |
| 2004 Athens | Israel (ISR) | Gal Fridman | Sailing | Men's mistral one design |
| 2004 Athens | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | Chen Shih-hsin | Taekwondo | Women's 49 kg |
| 2004 Athens | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | Chu Mu-yen | Taekwondo | Men's 58 kg |
| 2004 Athens | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | Ahmad Al Maktoum | Shooting | Men's double trap |
| 2008 Beijing | Mongolia (MGL) | Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar | Judo | Men's 100 kg |
| 2008 Beijing | Panama (PAN) | Irving Saladino | Athletics | Men's long jump |
| 2012 London | Bahrain (BRN) | Maryam Yusuf Jamal | Athletics | Women's 1500 metres |
| 2012 London | Grenada (GRN) | Kirani James | Athletics | Men's 400 metres |
| 2012 London | Serbia (SRB) | Milica Mandić | Taekwondo | Women's +67 kg |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Ivory Coast (CIV) | Cheick Sallah Cisse | Taekwondo | Men's 80 kg |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Fiji (FIJ) | Fiji national rugby sevens team Jasa VeremaluaKitione TaligaSemi KunataniLeone NakarawaOsea KolinisauJerry TuwaiSamisoni ViriviriApisai DomolailaiJosua TuisovaViliame MataVatemo RavouvouSavenaca Rawaca | Rugby sevens | Men's tournament |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Jordan (JOR) | Ahmad Abu-Ghaush | Taekwondo | Men's 68 kg |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Kosovo (KOS) | Majlinda Kelmendi | Judo | Women's 52 kg |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Kuwait (KUW) | Fehaid Al-Deehani | Shooting | Men's double trap |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Puerto Rico (PUR) | Monica Puig | Tennis | Women's singles |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Singapore (SGP) | Joseph Schooling | Swimming | Men's 100 m butterfly |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Tajikistan (TJK) | Dilshod Nazarov | Athletics | Men's hammer throw |
| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Vietnam (VIE) | Hoàng Xuân Vinh | Shooting | Men's 10 m air pistol |
| 2020 Tokyo | Bermuda (BER) | Flora Duffy | Triathlon | Women's individual |
| 2020 Tokyo | Philippines (PHI) | Hidilyn Diaz | Weightlifting | Women's 55 kg |
| 2020 Tokyo | Qatar (QAT) | Fares Ibrahim | Weightlifting | Men's 96 kg |
| 2024 Paris | Botswana (BOT) | Letsile Tebogo | Athletics | Men's 200 metres |
| 2024 Paris | Dominica (DMA) | Thea LaFond | Athletics | Women's triple jump |
| 2024 Paris | Guatemala (GUA) | Adriana Ruano | Shooting | Women's trap |
| 2024 Paris | Saint Lucia (LCA) | Julien Alfred | Athletics | Women's 100 metres |

## Winter Olympics

| Edition | Country | Medalist | Sport | Event |
| 1924 Chamonix | Austria (AUT) | Herma Szabo | Figure skating | Ladies' singles |
| 1924 Chamonix | Canada (CAN) | Canada men's national ice hockey team (Toronto Granites) Jack CameronErnie CollettBert McCaffreyHarold McMunnDuncan MunroBeattie RamsayCyril SlaterReginald "Hooley" SmithHarry Watson | Ice hockey | Men's competition |
| 1924 Chamonix | Finland (FIN) | Clas Thunberg | Speed skating | Men's 5000 m |
| 1924 Chamonix | Great Britain (GBR) | Great Britain national curling team William Jackson Thomas Murray Robin Welsh Laurence Jackson | Curling | Men's event |
| 1924 Chamonix | Norway (NOR) | Thorleif Haug | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km |
| 1924 Chamonix | Sweden (SWE) | Gillis Grafström | Figure skating | Men's singles |
| 1924 Chamonix | Switzerland (SUI) | Switzerland national military patrol team Adolf Aufdenblatten Alphonse Julen Antoine Julen Denis Vaucher | Military patrol | Men's event |
| 1924 Chamonix | United States (USA) | Charles Jewtraw | Speed skating | Men's 500 m |
| 1928 St. Moritz | France (FRA) | Andrée Joly Pierre Brunet | Figure skating | Pairs |
| 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Germany (GER) | Christl Cranz | Alpine skiing | Women's combined |
| 1948 St. Moritz | Belgium (BEL) | Micheline Lannoy Pierre Baugniet | Figure skating | Pairs |
| 1948 St. Moritz | Italy (ITA) | Nino Bibbia | Skeleton | Men's individual |
| 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | Soviet Union (URS) | Lyubov Kozyreva | Cross-country | Women's 10 km |
| 1964 Innsbruck | Netherlands (NED) | Sjoukje Dijkstra | Figure skating | Ladies |
| 1968 Grenoble | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | Jiří Raška | Ski jumping | Men's normal hill |
| 1968 Grenoble | East Germany (GDR) | Klaus-Michael Bonsack Thomas Köhler | Luge | Men's doubles |
| 1968 Grenoble | West Germany (FRG) | Franz Keller | Nordic combined | Men's individual |
| 1968 Grenoble | West Germany (FRG) | Erhard Keller | Speed skating | Men's 500m |
| 1972 Sapporo | Japan (JPN) | Yukio Kasaya | Ski jumping | Normal hill individual |
| 1972 Sapporo | Poland (POL) | Wojciech Fortuna | Ski jumping | Large hill individual |
| 1972 Sapporo | Spain (ESP) | Francisco Fernández Ochoa | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
| 1980 Lake Placid | Liechtenstein (LIE) | Hanni Wenzel | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
| 1992 Albertville | South Korea (KOR) | Kim Ki-hoon | Short track speed skating | Men's 1000 metres |
| 1994 Lillehammer | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | Vladimir Smirnov | Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km (classical) |
| 1994 Lillehammer | Russia (RUS) | Aleksandr Golubev | Speed skating | Men's 500 m |
| 1994 Lillehammer | Ukraine (UKR) | Oksana Baiul | Figure skating | Women's singles |
| 1994 Lillehammer | Uzbekistan (UZB) | Lina Cheryazova | Freestyle skiing | Women's aerials |
| 1998 Nagano | Bulgaria (BUL) | Ekaterina Dafovska | Biathlon | Women's individual |
| 1998 Nagano | Czech Republic (CZE) | Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team Jan ČalounRoman ČechmánekJiří DopitaRoman HamrlíkDominik HašekMilan HejdukMilan HniličkaJaromír JágrFrantišek KučeraRobert LangDavid MoravecPavel PateraLibor ProcházkaMartin ProcházkaRobert ReichelMartin RučinskýVladimír RůžičkaJiří ŠlégrRichard ŠmehlíkJaroslav ŠpačekMartin StrakaPetr Svoboda | Ice hockey | Men's competition |
| 2002 Salt Lake | Australia (AUS) | Steven Bradbury | Short track speed skating | Men's 1000 m |
| 2002 Salt Lake | China (CHN) | Yang Yang | Short track speed skating | Women's 500 m |
| 2002 Salt Lake | Croatia (CRO) | Janica Kostelić | Alpine skiing | Women's combined |
| 2002 Salt Lake | Estonia (EST) | Andrus Veerpalu | Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km |
| 2010 Vancouver | Belarus (BLR) | Alexei Grishin | Freestyle skiing | Men's aerials |
| 2010 Vancouver | Slovakia (SVK) | Anastasiya Kuzmina | Biathlon | Women's sprint |
| 2014 Sochi | Latvia (LAT) | Latvia national four-man bobsleigh team Oskars Melbārdis Arvis Vilkaste Daumants Dreiškens Jānis Strenga | Bobsleigh | Four-man |
| 2014 Sochi | Slovenia (SLO) | Tina Maze | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill |
| 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 |
| 2022 Beijing | New Zealand (NZL) | Zoi Sadowski-Synnott | Snowboarding | Women's slopestyle event |