Sentences with phrase «gold medals in»

Andrea Mead Lawrence, a Rutland native and America's only Olympic skier to win two gold medals in the same year, will be the subject of the fifth sculpture in a series highlighting local and regional history.

Owens, a track and field champion, won four gold medals in the 1936 Munich Olympics.

I've got a lot more playing to do, and plan to eventually complete all of the games and maybe even make a run at the full trophy list if I'm feeling masochistic (getting 50 gold medals in the Challenge Mode is insane, and this game doesn't have a Platinum Trophy either, D'oh!).

He won his Gold Medals in the coxless fours at Sydney in 2000 and the Athens Games in 2004, famously rowing with Sir Steven Redgrave.

At the young age of 19, Simone Biles holds the record for winning the most gold medals in women's gymnastics in a single Olympics.

Keeping track of gold medals in the Winter Olympics?

Indiana University's greatest swimmer was Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in the 1972 Olympic games.

Having won 2 gold medals in World Championships during his competing years, he remains very connected to the art, using the synergies between business and training that can be applied to dealing with clients and fighting on their behalf.

Both CACHE a PREDATOR and SCATTERED LINKS won Gold Medals in the 2014 READERS» FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL AWARDS.

Book Design Made Simple wins triple GOLD medals in Writing / Publishing category, including Book of the Year!

And we'd be awarded our gold medals in person!

She went on to win gold in parallel giant slalom snowboarding as well, making her the first woman to win two gold medals in different sports at the same Olympic Games.

To unlock the later levels you need so many gold medals in the previous levels, and the requirements are time - consuming to say the least.

She is also the first woman to win two gold medals in snowboarding at the Winter Youth Olympic Games.

The movie is based on the real - life saga of the ultra-wealthy du Pont (Steve Carell) and his working relationship with Mark Schultz and his older brother Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), both of whom won Olympic gold medals in 1984.

This biopic chronicles the courage of African - American athlete Wilma Rudolph, who overcame crippling polio to win three gold medals in track during the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

However, Kelly on the over hand showed great persistence and was rewarded with two Olympic gold medals in the twilight of her career.

These teams won the majority of the gold medals in Olympic weightlifting at the Olympic games in the 1980s and are therefore widely deemed to have the most effective approaches to training athletes for this sport (Zatsiorsky, 1992).

Eero Mantyranta, a Finnish cross-country skier who won two gold medals in the 1964 Olympics, was born with a mutation in the erythropoietin receptor gene that allows his blood to carry significantly more oxygen than the average person's [source: McCrory].

Oral Turinabol was the key ingredient in the last known state - sponsored Olympic doping program, which propelled East German athletes to gold medals in the 1970s and 1980s.

This year, the ceremonial pitcher was Vic Wild, a White Salmon native who won two gold medals in snowboarding at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Now that Michael Phelps has won an unmatched eight gold medals in this year's Olympic Games, lots of journalists are asking what gives Phelps such a leg up on the competition (legally, of course, though allegations of doping have tainted other Beijing Olympians).

Mark Spitz [the swimmer who won seven gold medals in the 1972 Munich Olympics] was claimed to have anatomical advantages.

Two Upstate New York breweries took home gold medals in the annual beer competition at the Great American Beer Fest, held last week in Denver.

Nixon said Cuomo would have won several gold medals in the «Corruption Olympics.»

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

The 28 - year - old — who won three gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay at London 2012 — said: «London is a special place where I love to compete and I am looking forward to the Sainsbury's Anniversary Games on July 24.

After the last match of the 1931 — 32 season, the mayor of Oxford presented the players of the OUIHC with gold medals in recognition of their outstanding skill.

Fraser won a hat - trick of gold medals in Tbilisi two years ago, as well as silver and bronze medals and was making his senior debut at the national championships.

The NCS Meet of Champions would serve as just a prelude to the CIF State Championships where she won gold medals in the triple jump and 100 hurdles, and continued her ascent as one of the best track and field athletes in the US.

Winning five gold medals in 2018 — or at any later Olympics — would involve adding the high - speed downhill and Super-G to her schedule.

Fortunately the team that arrived in Mexico City this week includes a number of boxers who have international experience, most notably Light Welterweight James Wallington Jr. and Light Heavyweight Arthur Redden, both of whom won gold medals in the 1967 Pan-American Games, and Harlan (Baby Cakes) Marbley, who will be competing in a new Olympic division, the 106 - pound, or light flyweight, class.

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.

1924 Johnny Weissmuller (right, with Andrew Charlton, Australia), who later swung to movie heights as Tarzan, won three gold medals in Paris.

This yearKorir, going for the win, faces an interesting opponent: Haile Gebrselassie.The Ethiopian, who has won two Olympic gold medals in the 10,000 meters, ismaking his first Berlin start.

He was one of the first shotputters to use weight training as a means of conditioning, and this aided him in compiling a record of consistency that is unmatched to this day: gold medals in Helsinki and Melbourne, the silver in Rome, eight AAU titles and 116 consecutive victories.

1912 Prodigious Jim Thorpe won gold medals in decathlon and pentathlon at Stockholm but, accused of professionalism, was forced to return them.

He's also won five Paralympic gold medals in hand - cycling.

The answer, Don says, is no, although he won four gold medals in the Tokyo Olympics and may win as many in Mexico

The day after her victory, Shiffrin talked of winning five gold medals in 2018 and spent the rest of the year walking that quote back, embarrassed at her bravado.

So for this week, it's all eyes on the «Water Cube» in Beijing where Michael Phelps has begun his quest for 8 gold medals in style.

Bolt is looking to become the first man to ever win three straight Olympic gold medals in the 100m, but at age 29, he isn't likely to best the Olympic Record time of 9.63 he set in 2012.

The Russians have their first jumpers capable of winning gold medals in Nikolai Shamov and Nikolai Kamensky — powerful men who lack polish only in their landing technique.

In the end they forced a move of the gymnastic competition to the larger Winnipeg Arena where, on the final night, there was a standing - room - only crowd of 10,000, as the U.S.'s Mark Cohn, a magna cum laude graduate of Temple University, won the side horse, and Linda Jo Metheny, a 19 - year - old University of Illinois physical - education major, won four gold medals in her shocking fuchsia tights.

The U.S. wrestling team made its third - straight Pan-Am sweep, winning gold medals in all eight classes.

Russia's Isinbayeva had won the last two gold medals in the event, but had to settle for bronze after failing to clear 4.75 meters.

Now that Evgeny has won four gold medals in two Olympics, does he plan to give up competitive skating?

Lydia Skoblikova is not quite 22, much younger than Grishin, and she was not even at Cortina four years ago; but at Squaw Valley she won two gold medals in speed skating, too, setting a world record in the 1,500 - meter race, winning the 3,000 and coming close to winning a third medal in the 1,000, where she finished fourth.

She is almost certain to make her second Olympic team at the U.S. track and field trials starting July 14 in Sacramento, and to challenge for gold medals in three events (the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay) in Sydney in September.

Last August, coming off a victorious Olympics in Brazil, Murray corrected the BBC's John Inverdale when he erroneously claimed he was the first player to win two gold medals in tennis.