Richard Tom, who was the first Asian American to win an Olympic medal, died this week at his home in Hawaii. He was 86:
First Asian-American Olympic medalist dies. Competing as a bantamweight in weightlifting for the United States, Tom won the bronze medal in the 1948 Games in London. Odd fact: his teammate was
Harold Sakata, who went on to play "Odd Job" in the 1964 James Bond movie
Goldfinger.
