A gold medalist is someone who has won first place in a sports competition, like the Olympics. They receive a shiny gold medal as a trophy for their exceptional performance. Full definition
-- Olga Korbut, USSR four - time Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics (fortune.com)
Sexual abuse of athletes has been in the news recently in the wake of claims by Deena Deardurff Schmidt, an Olympic swimming gold medalist at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, that between the ages 11 and 15 she was repeatedly molested by her swim coach. (MomsTeam.com)
After graduation, he spent 4 years working at the University of Calgary Sport Medicine center where he worked with many athletes ranging from young community athletes to many Olympic gold medalists from a variety of summer and winter Olympic sports. (risehealth.ca)