Sentences with phrase «by winning the gold medal»

The Russian team, which is officially being called Olympic Athletes from Russia as part of the IOC's punishment for doping violations, fulfilled its role as the favorite by winning the gold medal.

It was a result that took winning coach Stephen Keshi into the record books as he equalled the feat of late Egyptian Mahmoud El Gohary by winning gold medals as a player and a coach.

The Paralympic champion made history by winning gold medals in two different sports in Rio and now she's got her sights set on success in a third, winter, event

Brazil has managed to win back their fans by winning the gold medal at the Olympic football tournament.

This is the fabulous story of the 1936 U.S. University of Washington Rowing team and the eight sturdy varsity oarsmen who astonished the world and annoyed Hitler and the Nazis by winning a gold medal in the Berlin Olympics.

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He added another historic achievement to his legacy on Thursday night by crushing a strong field in the 200 - meter individual medley to win his fourth gold medal of the Games.

After Rie Kaneto of Japan opened the evening by winning the women's 200 breaststroke ahead of Russia's Yulia Efimova, first - time U.S. Olympian Ryan Murphy won the 200 backstroke for his second gold medal of the Games.

Solo lashed out publicly after the U.S.'s 4 - 0 loss and was shunned by her teammates, but ultimately Ryan lost his job and Solo was welcomed back to the U.S. team under coach Pia Sundhage and won a gold medal in 2008.

If he manages to win gold in all three races, his nine career gold medals would tie Paavo Nurmi and Lewis for the most by a track and field athlete.

During the 2014 Winter Olympics your signing bonus was increased depending on the number of medals won by Team USA — 500 points for every gold, 250 for every silver, and 100 for every bronze.

Conkle's documentary has won a gold medal in a national competition run by the University of Missouri, and Mr. Wright has garnered international attention, appearing on numerous television programs.

Additionally, at the 2013 World Beer Championship, gold medals were won by Capital's Autumnal Fire; Pumpkinataur doppelbock, some of which is aged in old bourbon barrels; and Appleanche, some of which is aged in brandy barrels.

At the 2013 World Beer Championship, Capital Brewery's Munich Dark and Special Pilsner lagers — among the first beers brewed by Capital — each won a gold medal.

The second week (8 - 10 May) will see all Gold wines re-tasted to win the Platinum medals by our four co-chairs and a selected eight regional chairs, including Jane Hunt MW, Andy Howard MW, Justin Howard - Sneyd MW, Jasper Morris MW, Peter Richards MW, Anthony Rose, and Pedro Ballesteros Torres MW.

They are the «lipid fraction» which contains the saturated fatty acids and the «non-lipid fraction» which has not been studied in - depth, says this award - winning Chemist who is the recipient of the Dr. C.L. de Silva Gold Medal Award - 2009 for «an outstanding research contribution done in any branch of Chemical Sciences during the last five years in Sri Lanka» offered by the Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon.

A nutritionist and a classically French - trained chef her natural talent and passion for food was rewarded early in her career winning Apprentice Of The Year two years running, followed by a Gold Medal at the Salon Cullinare.

The Duke won three Olympic gold medals in 1912 and 1920 and helped revolutionize the sport by introducing the American crawl.

Led by 27 - year - old Chiang Shao - yi, the Chinese women won nine gymnastics medals, including five gold, and they had onlookers wondering what they will do for an encore after they gain international experience.

Janet Macfarlane, a 17 - year - old Gridley, Calif. sprinter, began her second year of competitive track by winning three gold medals and setting three new marks — the long jump and the 100 - and 220 - yard dashes — at the Western U.S. Women's and Girls» games.

Bonnie Blair becomes the first U.S. athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics in Albertville by striking gold it the women's 500 - meter speed skating.

Then again, most of Gardner's days have been pretty terrific since the cherubic farm boy from Afton, Wyo., shocked the world by beating the legendary Alexander Karelin of Russia to win the gold medal in the heavyweight class of Greco - Roman wrestling at the 2000 Olympics.

Finland and Norway staged a remarkable race in the men's 40 - kilometer relay, the famous old Finn, Veikko Hakulinen, who had won a gold medal at Oslo in»52 and another at Cortina in» 56, lunging ahead of the Norwegian, Haakon Brusveen, winner of a gold medal in the 15 - kilometer race just two days before, by the length of a ski right at the finish.

The amazing U.S. skiers carved up the world Alpine championships, winning five medals, including a gold by Steve — yes, Steve — Mahre

One result of this was the first gold medal ever won by U.S. water poloists in international competition outside the country.

While Vonn stands to make a killing in endorsements, Van, who won the gold medal at the women's world championships in 2009, holds on to her job as a physical - therapy assistant, blocked from the chance for gold by the International Olympic Committee's senseless refusal to allow women to compete in ski jumping.

But that would reflect on a vastly improved American team that won 11 gold medals, five by the men.

At a time when international tensions and domestic frustrations had dampened traditional American optimism, the underdog U.S. Olympic hockey team gave the entire nation a lift by defeating the world's top team, the Soviets, and ultimately winning the gold medal.

15» 1.1» Height cleared by Idaho State alum and longtime Pocatello resident Stacy Dragila to win the first women's Olympic pole vault gold medal, at the 2000 Sydney Games.

Meseret Defar of Ethiopa won the gold medal in the women's 5,000 - meter race Friday night in the 2012 London Olympics in a race unsurprisingly dominated by East African nations.

They were led by a team of accomplished coaches, including head coach Chris Carver who is former coach of three U.S. Olympic teams which won gold and bronze medals from Atlanta to Athens and has been named United States Synchronized Swimming Coach of the Year for an unprecedented 14 years.

The camp is led by 15 seniors who have won a combined 12 gold medals with the program, players either already committed to play big - time college basketball or currently choosing between offers.

Verschoth reflected on the moments of elation she had experienced at the Games — watching Wyomia Tyus win her second gold medal in the 100 in Mexico City, viewing the towering 400 - and 800 - meter double by Cuba's Alberto Juantorena at Montreal in 76.

There have been 13 Olympics since, and each has left a legacy of unforgotten moments and splendid heroes: Dorando Pietri staggering to a disqualification in 1908; Aileen Riggin, at 12, winning the dive in Antwerp; Jim Thorpe, who astonished the Swedes with his athletic feats by day and his revelry by night; the taciturn little Finn, Paavo Nurmi, who won seven long - distance championships; Jesse Owens, whose four gold medals in Berlin brought a scowl to the face of Adolf Hitler; and Emil Zatopek who, lacking natural speed, became by will the most marvelous of modern long - distance runners.

Emily: On the women's side, I'd enjoy seeing Lydia Ko build on her growing legend by adding a gold medal to her two majors and 13 LPGA Tour wins.

After winning just one medal in the first five events of the Games (Julia Mancuso's unexpected bronze in the super combined, boosting her U.S. women's record medal total to four), the U.S. won four medals in the final five events, beginning with a silver and a bronze by Andrew Weibrecht and Bode Miller, respectively, in the Super-G, followed by Ted Ligety's dominant gold as the heavy favorite in the giant slalom and, finally, Shiffrin's gold.

In 2015, she broke records by winning five gold medals at National Championships, which has never been done before by an athlete of any age.

As the first World War concluded, the Olympics embraced rugby, offering a Gold Medal (won by the USA) in both 1920 and» 24.

Synchro Canada's Emily Armstrong earned the first gold medal of the competition by winning the junior solo event.

While Lasse Kjus of Norway was winning two golds and three silvers and the indomitable Austrians were taking 13 of the 30 medals, the U.S. was aced out of the podium scramble by an Australian and a Liechtensteiner.

The three American gold medals — won by Angle, Brands and 125 - pounder Kendall Cross — equaled the biggest American haul in a nonboycotted Olympics since 1924.

In 2013, Randall and Diggins won a world championship gold medal — the first for the United States — by taking the women's team sprint by almost eight seconds.

The 1974 team had built upon the foundations laid by the Olympic squad of 1972, who had walked away with the Bronze medal in Munich, and in 1976 they went all the way and won Gold at Montreal.

Rowlands» medal follows up her success in the halfpipe event earlier in the Games when her gold medal was the first ever won by a Team GB athlete on snow in the history of the Olympic and Youth Olympic Games.

Daley's gold was just one of three medals won by British divers on the night with fellow Olympian Tonia Couch taking her third straight individual 10m bronze.

One of those gold medals was won by Great Britain and Northern Ireland's co-captain Andrew Pozzi, who was victorious in the 60m hurdles on Sunday evening.

By playing internationally for his native Nigeria, Iwobi hopes to follow in the footsteps of his uncle, Jay - Jay Okocha, who represented Nigeria to win a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

A further three gold medals were won by British athletes on the fourth day of the IPC Athletics European Championships

(internet archive link) by Cindy Webb, Tulsa Kids, 2003 Gold Medal Winning Article

The district has won numerous awards, including two National Gold Medals awards for excellence in the field of parks and recreation management in the national competition sponsored by the National Reacreation and Park Association and the Sports Foundation Inc., a national foundation of sporting goods dealers.

Coe won the 1500m gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984 and his epic track battle with Steve Ovett is to be made into a film by the BBC.