Who was the first nigerian to win an individual olympic gold medal?
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Chioma Ajunwa As the only Nigerian athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal (born on December 25, 1970 in Umuihiokwu Mbaise, Imo State) is a former athlete from Nigeria, who previously played Football for the Nigerian women's team. She is the first Nigerian to win an Olympic gold medal as well as the African woman to win an Olympic gold in a field event. She won the Women's Long jump at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, with a jump of 7.03m. In the qualifying rounds she had set an African record with 7.12m. She was also an officer in the Nigeria Police Force at the time.
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Gold medalist Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic.\nSebrle's wining point total of 8,893 set an Olympic record but was short of his world record of 9,026. \n Bryan Clay USA finished with a lifetime best of 8,820, 160 points more than the 8,660 he scored to win the U.S. trials. \nDmitriy Karpov of Kazakhstan, , 23, won the bronze, with 8,725 points.
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Linford Christie in the 100 metre run.  He won gold at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, an Olympic Gold in 1992, and the World Championship a year later.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linford_Christie
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The best site is Sportline. you can have the medal by date, by sport, by country. You have a list with multiple medal winner (which is top by Cindy Klassen) plus a review of each winner of each olympics since 1924. So you can know that Johan Gröttumsbraaten from Norway has won a bronze medal in 1924.
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As a pro Cus D Amato, as an amateur I don't know.  He was very talented even at a young age when he won the Olympic gold medal in 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
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Rasheed Yekini scored the first goal for Nigeria at a World Cup on 21st June 1994 in the match against Bulgaria (3-0).
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Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Honorary KBE, (born October 23, 1940), nicknamed Pelé (pron. IPA /pɛ.'lɛ/), is a former Brazilian football (soccer) player who won three World Cup medals and broke many records, also known as O Rei (The King) and Pérola Negra (The Black Pearl).
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OK, it breaks down like this:\n\nIn 1904, George Poage became the first "black runner" to win an Olympic medal, a bronze in the 400 metres hurdles, but on the same day Joseph Stadler became the first "black athlete to win an Olympic medal", with a silver in the standing high jump behind the great Ray Ewry. \n\nMany sites still list Poage as being the first...
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The swimmer with the MOST Olympic medals is Jenny Thompson of the USA with 12.\n\nIn an incredible Olympic career beginning in 1992, Jenny has won eight golds, three silvers and a bronze. Until the recent Games in Athens, the record stood at eight medals, an achievement shared by Dawn Fraser (Australia), Kornelia Ender (GDR), and Shirley Babashoff (USA).\n\nOn the men's side, both Mark Spitz & (USA) Matt Biondi (USA) each won 11 medals in Olympic competition.
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Definitely Adokiye Amesimaka. He was in Law school when he featured for the Nigerian national team when Nigerian national team was the "green eagles". He also had other celebrated players with him (i.e. Segun Odegbami, Christian Chukwu, Odiye, Emmanuel Okala etc). He retired from active football and pursued his law career fully. He worked for the then River state ministry of Justice and rose to become first the director of public prosecution and later the Attorney General for the state. From those that know him, he is surely a very brilliant/talented man.
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Men\nAsafa Powell  JAM set a world record 9.77 in the men's 100 meters  11.06.2006 Gateshead Norwich Union British Grand Prix  \n\nWomen\nSherone SIMPSON    JAM\n10.87\n14.07.2006 Roma Golden Gala  ITA
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University of Nigeria Alumni:\nhttp://www.universityofnigeria.com/alumni.htm
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From www.olympic.org:\n\nEddie Eagan (USA-bobsleigh and boxing) achieved a unique feat by winning gold medals in both summer and winter sports. In 1920, he won the light-heavyweight boxing championship. Twelve years later, he reappeared at the Winter Olympics and won the four-man bobsleigh event.
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George Poage was the first African-American Olympic medalist from the U.S. He won bronze medals in both the 200 and 400 meter hurdles in St. Louis in 1904. That was the 3rd Olympiad.\n\nJohn Baxter "Doc" Taylor,won a gold medal as part of the 4 x 400 m relay team in 1908.
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Eric Heiden became the first athlete ever to win five gold medals in a single Winter Olympics in 1980.
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He is not listed as an Olympic medalist on the official site:\n\nhttp://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp\n\nI found reference to him saying he was silver medalist in the 1998 World Cup in Freestyle Wresting.
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Said Belqola refereed the Final. The first referee from Africa to officiate the Final.\nSadly, Mr Belqola died during the last World Cup in Japan/Korea.