Sentences with phrase «gold medalist since»
«I said to myself, Hicham, for people to look at you as a legend, you have to win this race,» El Guerrouj would say later, and he easily floated past Bekele in the final 50 meters to become the first 1,500 — 5,000 double gold medalist since Pavvo Nurmi in 1924.
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While we can't technically speak to her credentials as a fine lass, we feel pretty safe in declaring her the Bay Area's most promising girls water polo talent since the graduation of another Danville native — Olympic gold - medalist Maggie Steffens.
Norwich, Vermont, population 3,000, has sent contestants to the Olympics almost every year since 1984, cheering on three gold medalists in the Winter Olympics in the same span of years that the entire country of Spain has produced two.
March 26, 2015 - Although it's been several years since Fillmore Riley's Ari Hanson graduated from Robson Hall as the gold medalist, he has kept close ties with the University of Manitoba's law school since then.