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Only once has the country won an Olympic medal: Gabriel Tiacoh, who won a silver medal in the men's 400 metres in 1984.
Kathryn Pilgrim is the great niece of Olympic Gold medalsist Paul Henry Pilgrim, who won three gold medals at the 1904 and 1906 Summer Olympics.
Liberia (LBR) has sent athletes to every Summer Olympic Games held since 1956 with the exception of 1968, 1976 and 1992, although the country has never won an Olympic medal.
The most recent Olympics in Beijing 2008 marked the country's fourth appearance and first Olympic medal wins, with Rasul Boqiev winning bronze in the Judo under 73 kg category and Yusup Abdusalomov winning the silver medal in the freestyle wrestling under 84 kg category.
Former Tech athletes coached by Kittley would go on to win 3 Medals in the 2012 Olympic Games: Olympic Gold medalist in the 4x400 Relay Michael Mathieu, Olympic Bronze medalist in the 4x400 Relay Shereefa Lloyd, and Olympic Silver medalist in the 10,000M Sally Kipyego.
Having won her country's first Olympic medal in Innsbruck, four years before, alpine skier Hanni Wenzel won Liechtenstein's only two gold medals in the country's history, at Lake Placid.
South Korea won the country's first Winter Olympic medal—a gold—when Kim Ki-hoon came first in the newly introduced Olympic sport of short track speed skating.
Similarly, Annelise Coberger's silver medal in the women's slalom was New Zealand's first, and of 2010, only Winter Olympic medal.
On February 13, Hussain and special Olympic guest analyst Salman Bazmi provided play-by-play analysis of Canada's first olympic medal at the games; a silver medal by Jennifer Heil in Freestyle skiing, women's moguls.
But while Bubka would vault in 3 more Olympics and would continue to dominate the World Championships with ultimately 6 consecutive wins, this would be the only Olympic medal he would achieve.
At the same Olympics, Kirsty Coventry won her seventh Olympic medal to replace Auburn alumnus and NBC swimming commentator Rowdy Gaines at the top of the Auburn roster of Olympic medallists.
The country's only Olympic medal to date is a bronze won by sprinter Obadele Thompson in the men's 100 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Hans von Blixen-Finecke, (Bror's twin brother) and his son, Hans von Blixen-Finecke, Jr., both Olympic medal winners in equestrian events.
Bosnian athletes included Kenyan-born marathon runner Lucia Kimani, and rifle shooter Nedžad Fazlija, who participated at his fifth Olympic games without winning an Olympic medal.
Dupre was an Olympic sport shooter who was part of the team that won Haiti's first ever Olympic medal, a bronze in team free rifle at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
This would have been both a national record and the second-ever Olympic medal for the Netherlands Antilles after Jan Boersma's silver in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
The first Olympic medal for the Soviet Union was won by Belarusian Mikhail Krivonosov at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games held in Melbourne, Australia.
1st in the Tornado world ranking, 5th in the Rolex Miami, Miami Rolex, 3rd in the North American championship, 5th France Olympic Week (Hyères), Volvo Ocean Race in the Movistar, 4th in the Beneteau 25 World Championship Vigo, Royal Order Sportsmanship Merit, Olympic Medal of the Spanish Olympic Committee, Unión Fenosa Medal "best sailors of the Year", record holder of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Ranking (18 consecutive months), 1st Copa del Rey with Movistar.
Penny Pitou, first US woman to win an Olympic medal in downhill skiing
Gisela Birkemeyer (born December 22, 1931 in Fasendorf/Ore Mountains, Saxony) is a former athlete and Olympic medal winner from Germany, who was born as Gisela Köhler.
His other uncle, Tadija Kačar, won a silver Olympic medal in boxing in 1976, also competing for Yugoslavia.
Gostun is the birthplace of Ivan Lebanov - the first Bulgarian to win a Winter Olympic medal in 1980.
Guatemala won their first Olympic medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, when Erick Barrondo took second place in the men's 20km walk.
With his opponent advancing further into the final round, Hamdouni offered a second chance for an Olympic medal by aggressively defeating Philippines' Donald Geisler in the first repechage bout that left his opponent with a dislocated ankle and a double tendon injury.
Vilhjálmur Einarsson won the first ever Olympic medal for his country.
Idalys Ortiz (b. 1989), a Cuban judoka (judo practictioner) and Olympic medal winner
Ireland won its first Olympic medal as an independent nation as Pat O'Callaghan won the gold medal in the men's hammer throw.
Jack Guest (1906–1972), Canadian rowing Olympic medal winner
Treacy overtook Spedding with 150m to go, during which the Irish television commentary of Jimmy Magee listed the previous Irish Olympic medal winners up to that time, before culminating: "And for the 13th time, an Olympic medal goes to John Treacy from Villierstown in Waterford, the little man with the big heart."
Outside of his Olympic medal, his achievements include wins at the Beppu-Ōita Marathon and the Tokyo International Marathon.
H. Clermont was an Olympic sport shooter who was part of the team won Haiti's first ever Olympic medal, a bronze in team free rifle at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Émilie Le Pennec, first French gymnast to win an individual Olympic medal in women's artistic gymnastics.
He is the son of Olympic medal winning field hockey player Sos Hayrapetyan.
Bruce Baumgartner (born 1960), four-time Olympic medal winner in wrestling, two gold, one silver and one bronze.
Panama won its first-ever Olympic medals at these Games, and did not win another Olympic medal until Irving Saladino won gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Being a typical allrounder, Falk-Larssen was not specialised enough to win an Olympic medal; he participated in the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, but his best result in six races during those two Olympics was only a twelfth place.
Rwanda has never won an Olympic medal, but Jean de Dieu Nkundabera won a Paralympic bronze medal for Rwanda in wheelchair racing at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens.
She then went on to compete for bronze in the repechage, defeating Noha Abd Rabo of Egypt and winning Britain's first Olympic medal in the sport of taekwondo.
Lynn Jennings, first American woman to win an Olympic medal in the 10,000 m (1992)
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Li Jiawei, together with Feng Tianwei and Wang Yuegu, beat the South Korea Women's Table Tennis team, composed of Dang Ye-Seo, Kim Kyung-Ah and Park Mi-Young 3-2 in the semi-finals, assuring Singapore of at least a silver medal and ending Singapore's 48-year Olympic medal drought.
In the 2012 London Olympics, Feng Tianwei beat Kasumi Ishikawa from Japan 4-0 in the Table Tennis Women's Singles Bronze Medal Match, winning Singapore's first individual Olympic medal in 52 years.
Another North Korean Winter Olympic medal was a bronze in 1992 at the Albertville Games when Hwang Ok-Sil took third place in the women's 500 meters of short-track speed skating.
William "Billy" Kidd, first American man to earn an Olympic medal in alpine skiing
Ismail Ahmed Ismail, who came second in the men's 800 m in 2008, was the first Sudanese athlete to win an Olympic medal.
Notable swimmers missed out the top 8 final, featuring Germany's Antje Buschschulte, a pre-Olympic medal contender; South Africa's Charlene Wittstock, who eventually married to Albert II, Prince of Monaco in 2010; and Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry, who later emerged as one of the world's top backstroke swimmers in her decade.
The United States, Canada and Japan have traditionally been the strongest nations in the sport, winning every Olympic medal from 1984 through 1996, but Russia has recently dominated, winning every event between 2000 and 2012.
Tajikistan won its first ever Olympic medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, when Rasul Boqiev took the bronze medal in Men's Judo - 73kg.
So far (including the 2006 Winter Olympics), Salonen is the last Finnish male speed skater to have won an Olympic medal – the last Finnish female speed skater so far being Kaija Mustonen in 1968.
Tonga became the smallest independent nation to have won an Olympic medal in the Summer games when Super Heavyweight Boxer Paea Wolfgramm earned silver in the 1996 Super heavyweight 91 kg championships in Atlanta.
He is married to the Olympic medal-winning athlete Evelyn Kaufer and has two sons, one of whom, Thomas, is also a footballer.
The insular area's only Olympic medal is a silver won by Peter Holmberg in sailing at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney, which made her the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal.
Billy Fiske, born William Meade Lindsley Fiske III, American Olympic medal-winner and WWII fighter pilot