Question: The first athlete who won the gold medal for the "yellow-blues" Ukraine team was born in what year?

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Chioma Ajunwa: Chioma Ajunwa-Opara, MON (born 25 December 1970) – also known as Chioma Ajunwa – is a Nigerian former athlete who specialised in the long jump.  After various setbacks in her career she achieved fame when she became the first athlete in her country to win an Olympic gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and to date remains Nigeria's only individual Olympic gold medalist.  Chioma Ajunwa is the first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal in a field event.  Ajunwa is also an officer with the Nigerian Police Force.

Sergii Kravchenko: Sergii Kravchenko, (Ukrainian: Сергій Кравченко), is a Ukraine Paralympic sprinter who runs in the T37 class.  Kravchenko qualified for the 2008 Paralympic Games but did not win a medal.  He ran with the Ukraine team to win a gold medal and set a new championship record in the T35-38 4X100 m relay at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships.

Alexander Symonenko: Alexander Serhiyovych Symonenko (Ukrainian: Симоненко Олександр Сергійович ; born 14 February 1974) is a Ukrainian former track cyclist.  Symonenko was the world champion in individual pursuit in 2001, as well as the world champion in team pursuit as part of the Ukraine team in 1998 and 2001.  In the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the team pursuit as part of the Ukraine team.  Symonenko was born in Kirovohrad (present day Kropyvnytskyi).

Ukraine at the Olympics: Ukraine first participated at the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then.  The first athlete who won the gold medal for the "yellow-blues" was Oksana Baiul.

Jim Alford: James William Llewellyn Alford (15 October 1913 – 5 August 2004) was a Welsh track athlete who was born in Cardiff, Wales.  In 1938 Alford won the Mile Empire Games gold medal in Sydney, becoming the first athlete in a Welsh vest to strike gold in the Empire Games.  He was also a member of the British 4 x 1500 metre team that broke the world record.  At home he won 11 Welsh titles in disciplines ranging from the 440 yards to cross country.  He became first national coach for in Wales in 1948 and is a member of the Welsh Sports Hall of Fame.

John Lindsay (Paralympian): John Lindsay, OAM (born 29 January 1970) is an Australian Paralympic athlete from Melbourne.  He competed in the 1988 Seoul games in distances ranging from 100 m to 800 m, but did not win any medals.  At the 1992 Barcelona Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 200 m TW3 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, a silver medal in the Men's 100 m TW3 event and a bronze medal in the Men's 400 m TW3 event.  That year, he had a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship.  He was also working as a fitness instructor in 1992, held world records in the 100 m and 200 m events, and was ranked 6th in the world in the 400 m.  He won a gold medal in the men's athletics 100 m T52 event at the 1996 Summer Paralympics with a time of 15.22, a silver medal in the 200 m T52 event with a time of 27.38, and a bronze medal in the 400 m T52 event with a time of 52.93.  At the 2000 Sydney Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 100 m T53 event, a silver medal as part of the Men's 4x100 m Relay T54 team, and a bronze medal in the Men's 200 m T53 event; he was also part of the Men's 4x400 m Relay T54 team, which was the only one to qualify in its heat, but it did not make it to the finals.  At the 2004 Athens Games, he came seventh in the first round of the Men's 100 m T53 event and sixth in the third round of the Men's 200 m T53 event.  He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1995 and 2000.

József Csermák: József Csermák (14 February 1932 – 14 January 2001 in Tapolca) was a Hungarian hammer thrower.  He won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics with a throw of 60.34 m, setting a new world record and becoming the first athlete to break the 60 m barrier.  At the next Olympics Csermák was chosen as the Olympic flag bearer for Hungary, but placed only fifth.  He failed to reach the final at the 1960 Olympics.  Besides his 1952 Olympic gold medal, Csermák won four Hungarian titles and a bronze medal at the 1954 European Championships.

Oksana Baiul: Oksana Baiul (born November 16, 1977) is a Ukrainian former competitive figure skater.  She is the 1993 World champion and the 1994 Olympic champion in ladies' singles.

Snowboarding at the Winter Olympics: Snowboarding is a sport at the Winter Olympic Games.  It was first included in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.  Snowboarding was one of five new sports or disciplines added to the Winter Olympic program between 1992 and 2002, and was the only one not to have been a previous medal or demonstration event.  In 1998, four events, two for men and two for women, were held in two specialities: the giant slalom, a downhill event similar to giant slalom skiing; and the half-pipe, in which competitors perform tricks while going from one side of a semi-circular ditch to the other.  Canadian Ross Rebagliati won the men's giant slalom and became the first athlete to win a gold medal in snowboarding.  Rebagliati was briefly stripped of his medal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after testing positive for marijuana.  However, the IOC's decision was reverted following an appeal from the Canadian Olympic Association.  For the 2002 Winter Olympics, giant slalom was expanded to add head-to-head racing and was renamed parallel giant slalom.  In 2006, a third event, the snowboard cross, was held for the first time.  In this event, competitors race against each other down a course with jumps, beams and other obstacles.  On July 11, 2011, the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board approved the addition of Ski and Snowboard Slopestyle to the Winter Olympics roster of events, effective in 2014.  The decision was announced via press conference from the IOC's meeting in Durban, South Africa.  A fifth event, parallel slalom, was added be in 2014.

2014 Winter Olympics medal table: The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event held in Sochi, Russia, from 7 February to 23 February.  A total of 2,873 athletes from 88 nations participated in 98 events in 7 sports across 15 different disciplines.  Of all athletes, 187 of them representing 26 different countries won medals.  The Netherlands achieved four podium sweeps in the speed skating, dominating the men's 500 metres, men's 5,000 metres, men's 10,000 metres, and women's 1,500 metres, surpassing the previous record of two podium sweeps.  Host nation Russia matched the Soviet Union's 1976 achievement of thirteen gold medals and achieved the leading position on the medal table, making the 2014 Winter Games the fourth where the host nation topped the gold medal count.  Slovenia won its first gold medal in alpine skiing, in the first Winter Olympic gold medal tie.  Luger Armin Zöggeler of Italy became the first athlete to achieve six Winter Olympic medals over six consecutive games, all achieved at the men's singles event.

Supporting paragraphs: Ukraine at the Olympics Oksana Baiul
Answer: 1977