Vonetta Flowers (née Jeffery; born Vonetta Flowers (née Jeffery; born Octo) is an American bobsledder. At the Winter Olympics, Flowers became the first African American and the first Black athlete from any country to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics.
Biography. Vonetta Flowers was Bobsledder Vonetta Flowers was the first African American to earn a gold medal in the Winter Olympics, and did so in her sport's first women's Olympic event. After a lifetime spent chasing the gold in track and field events, Flowers switched her focus to achieve it on the first-ever women's Olympic bobsled team.
Vonetta Flowers of the United States. Vonetta Flowers was a sprinter and long jumper at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She later turned to bobsledding, and at the Winter Olympics, she was the brakeman for Jill Bakken, as they won the gold medal in the first women’s Olympic bobsled event.
Vonetta Flowers is an The first person of African descent, male or female, to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics was Vonetta Flowers when she won gold in the women’s bobsled event in at Salt Lake City.
Born Octo, in Birmingham, Alabama; daughter Birmingham native Vonetta Jeffery Flowers () is the first African American to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. The former University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) college track and field star competed in two-woman bobsled in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, winning gold in the very first women's Olympic.
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Flowers was the first black athlete to win an Olympic gold medal at the Winter Games. 
Born Octo, in Birmingham, Vonetta Flowers (née Jeffery; born October 29, ) is an American bobsledder. At the Winter Olympics, Flowers became the first African American and the first Black athlete from any country to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics.
Vonetta Flowers was born on Bobsledder Vonetta Flowers was the first African American to earn a gold medal in the Winter Olympics, and did so in her sport's first women's Olympic event. After a lifetime spent chasing the gold in track and field events, Flowers switched her focus to achieve it on the first-ever women's Olympic bobsled team.