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First black athlete to win gold at the Winter Olympic Games

First black athlete to win gold at the Winter Olympic Games
Who
Vonetta Flowers
What
First
Where
United States (Park City)
When
19 February 2002

The first black athlete to win gold at the Winter Olympic Games is Vonetta Flowers (USA), who won the two-woman bobsleigh with Jill Bakken in Park City, Utah, USA, on 19 February 2002.

Formally a sprinter and long jumper who had qualified for the US Summer Olympic trials, Flowers first attended a bobsleigh try-out in 2000 – just two months later, she was competing internationally.