who was the 1st black athlete to win gold a winter olympic games

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Vonetta Flowers was the first to capture a gold medal in the two-woman bobsled at Salt Lake City

Vonetta Flowers was the first black athlete (male or female)--from any country--to ever win an Olympic Winter Games gold medal. In the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Vonetta and Jill Bakken drove USA to an Olympic gold medal, ending the United States' 46-year medal drought in bobsled. The 2-woman bobsled team is time was 1 minute 48 seconds.

Vonetta Flowers ( born Vonetta Jeffery ) an American bobsledder & athlete. Flowers was a star sprinter & long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, & originally aspired to make the U.S. Summer Olympic Team. After several failed attempts, Flowers turned to bobsledding, & found success as a brakewoman almost immediately. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she, along with driver Jill Bakken, won the gold medal in the two-woman event, becoming the first black person to win a gold medal in the Winter Olympics.