Has any individual from Minnesota ever won an Olympic gold medal?

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I am not talking about a team, but an individual.

I was watching the women and men gymnastics and admired young Shawn Johnson from Iowa. And I was thinking how often Iowa is the butt of jokes nation wide and how we, in Minnesota often feel superior to Iowa (myself included) and here an Iowan won a gold medal.

And... Iowa even sent a native son to the White House. OK, nothing to brag about Hoover, still..

[dodger501]

1. Whole bunch of 'em on the 60 & 80 Hockey Teams

nt

[ogneopasno]

2. You say you're not talking about a team,

but there was plenty of Minnesota pride on those hockey teams. Them was the days.

[ISUGRADIA]

3. Tom Malchow, swimmer gold 2000, silver 1996

200 m butterfly

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4. Thank you. Usually I don't follow that close

depending on the time of airing but this time the 9:00 - 11:00 pm was convenient time to at least see what was going on.