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Question of the week

Published: Saturday, Sept. 10, 1988

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Who was the first LDS Olympian to win a gold medal?

(Answer on page 13)Here's answer to week's question

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Alma W. Richards of Parowan, Utah, who died in 1963, was the first Church member to comptwet in the Olympics. He won a gold medal in the high jump in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.

Source; 1985 Deseret News Church Almanac, p.314.