Sentences with phrase «medallist says»
Sophie McKinna will be among the seven British athletes travelling to Leiria, Portugal, for the European Cup Winter Throws competition on March 15 - 16 and the European junior shot put silver medallist says she is looking forward to testing herself at the top level at this early stage of the year.
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The six - time Paralympic gold medallist says British wheelchair racing is looking good as he gets ready to race at his final Games
Six - time Paralympic gold medallist says he'd like to race double world and Olympic champion as he helped launch new Kew Gardens junior wheelchair event
The world and Olympic triple jump gold medallist says being the defending champion in Rio will give him an edge over his rivals
More than half of the medallists said that they were now working at a more senior level and more than two thirds had had a pay rise.
Not exact matches
A Russian Olympic medallist has left the Pyeongchang Winter Games on suspicion of doping, a team official said Monday.
A Russian Olympic medallist has left the Pyeongchang Winter Games on suspicion of doping, a team official said on Monday, in a scandal that has shocked his teammates and could imperil Russia's efforts to regain full Olympic status.
«I think I'm in good shape,» said Schippers, who will race against 200m silver medallist Marie - Josée Ta Lou and bronze medallist Shaunae Miller - Uibo as well as Britain's Asha Philip, Desiree Henry and Dina Asher - Smith.
Having said that, the pace did pick up enough for the winner, Ethiopia's Yenew Alamirew, to clock a world - leading 13:01.57 as Kenya's Caleb Ndiku — winner with a then world lead in Eugene — ran 13:02.15 to cross the line ahead of Olympic silver 10,000 m medallist Rupp with a season's best 13:03.35.
Britain's six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir has said this will be his last Paralympic Games and after finishing sixth in the 800m final he hinted that the two - lap event in Rio could have been his last individual track race too.
European 200m silver medallist remains set on half - lap event individually but says she can't rule out a step up before her career is over
The four - time Olympic gold medallist has said the event forms a «key part» of his preparations ahead of the London 2017 IAAF World Championships next summer.
«For us, sporting success is about more than medals and trophies,» said Laura Trott, Britain's four - time Olympic gold medallist.
Atlanta 96 Olympic gold medallist Emmanuel Babayaro says the clamour for a very good goalkeeper for Nigeria at the World Cup in Russia is one issue that has been over emphasised.
Speaking of the talent on show in the men's race, race director Hugh Brasher said: «We're delighted to welcome all three medallists from the London 2012 Olympic Marathon to this year's Virgin London Marathon.
Kelly Sotherton, the 2004 Olympic heptathlon bronze medallist, said: «Liz Jones produced a very uneducated article in Daily Mail today with no real fact or knowledge about female sport.
The six - time Paralympic gold medallist can't wait to get his season started but says he hopes he is competing on a level playing field after news of Polish wheelchair racer Tomasz Hamerlak's four - year doping ban
That fat lad from Southampton is a Paralympic bronze medallist, unbelievable,» he said.
The two - time Olympic 100m gold medallist, who won her first Olympic title in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium in 2008, had said that the 100m and 4x100m relay events were her focus for the IAAF World Championships which takes place from August 22 - 30.
«I will now concentrate on being 100 % fit for the outdoor competitions,» said the European indoor 60m silver medallist, who earlier this year said he wanted to win a medal in each of the championships he prepares for in 2014, including the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the European Championships in Zurich.
Three quarters of medallists who answered the survey also said that CMYA had helped raise their profile within the industry.
«It was a marvellous circle of ideas,» says mathematician Michael Atiyah, another Fields medallist, who is now at the University of Cambridge, UK, and who also worked on these theories.
Gary Doyle, a former WorldSkills UK Competitor and Gold Medallist in Plumbing at WorldSkills São Paulo said: «The opportunities I have had as a result of being involved with the WorldSkills UK and WorldSkills Competitions have been unreal.
On its website, the bank says an independent committee has narrowed down the finalists to poet E. Pauline Johnson; black rights activist Viola Desmond from Nova Scotia; Elsie MacGill, who received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Toronto in 1927; Quebec suffragette Idola Saint - Jean; and 1928 Olympic medallist Fanny Rosenfeld, a track and field athlete.
Doug Sarro, Osgoode Hall Law School's 2013 Gold Medallist, says the facts and holdings of individual cases are less important than the legal tests they applied.
«There's such a huge volume that it's very easy to start thinking about what you can cut out or skim through, but it'll just end up being too much when the exams come around,» says the 2012 Law Society Gold Medallist at the University of British Columbia, now a litigator with McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Vancouver.