However, the IOC awarded gold, silver and bronze medals to athletes who placed first, second and third at the 1896 and 1900 Olympic Games. The first Olympic medals (in 1896) were designed and ...

A first-place silver medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold for $180,111 when it was put up for auction in 2021 and a gold medal from the 2010 Winter Olympics in ...

In one of the biggest upsets in Olympic cycling history, Anna Kiesenhofer of Austria won the women's road race Sunday afternoon in Japan to capture her nation's first Olympic medal since the inaugural ...

Since competing in Athens in 1896, the United States has ... and Olympians like Michael Phelps, who won 23 gold medals of his own across five Olympic Games. The next closest country to the U.S ...

The Olympic ... for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance, especially from the government of Greece. But when Georgios Averoff of Alexandria donated 920,000 gold ...

Gold, silver, and bronze medals weren't always the standard at the Olympics. The first Summer Games began in Athens, Greece in 1896, but gold medals weren't introduced until 1904 in St. Louis in ...