Sentences with phrase «win a gold medal in»

In 2000, she and Venus won gold medals in the doubles event at the Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Edwards also points out that over 70 % of the athletes that won a gold medal in track and field events did so while wearing Nike gear, a helpful marketing buzz for a business that generates $ 5 billion in revenue for Nike at wholesale channels today.

The shot put star became the first American woman to win a gold medal in the sport, and also set an American world record.

Rafaela Silva of Brazil celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Women's -57 kg Final - Gold Medal Contest on Day 3 of the Rio 2016 Olympic 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.

Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates winning the gold medal in the men's 4x100 - meter relay final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 19, 2016.

The government is clearly hoping that Canada will win the gold medal in hockey

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, Kenya's Asbel Kiprop celebrates winning the gold medal in the men's 1500m final at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing.

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.

We walked the city in every direction with a tour guide who would certainly win the gold medal in speed walking.

The company also offers several seasonal beers including Black Racer, a black IPA that won the gold medal in the 2012 World Beer Cup in the American - style black ale category.

The Blushes also recently won a gold medal in the Best Hothouse Specialty Tomato category at the 2016 Greenhouse Competitions.

In fact, it just won a Gold Medal in the Gluten Free Beer category at the 2017 Best of Craft Beer Awards.

Wybo, created in 1927, is currently sold in more than 80 countries worldwide, and touts more than 20 international awards in addition to winning a Gold Medal in the 2014 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

She rebounded spectacularly at theworld championships last summer, winning gold medals in those two events aswell as one in the 4 √ ó200 free relay.

Mackenzie, a 41 - year - old dentist, won gold medals in four - oared shell and mixed eight and a silver in the men's quad at the U.S. Rowing Masters National Championships in Seattle.

At last summer's worldchampionships Ziegler won gold medals in the 1,500 and 800 freestyles, andHardy set a world record of 1:06.20 in the 100 breaststroke semifinals beforefinishing second in the final to Australia's Leisel Jones.

The Babe also won a gold medal in the javelin throw in the Games that year.

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.

Serena Williams won the gold medal in women's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics on Saturday, absolutely dismantling Maria Sharapova in straight sets, 6 - 0, 6 - 1.

The first woman to win a gold medal in wrestling for the United States hopes that her perfect trip to Rio de Janeiro changes the landscape of the sport without the need to make a transition to mixed martial arts (MMA) to show how effective it can be.

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

The former matinee idol, who won a gold medal in front of his countrymen at the Rome Olympics in 1960 and later held the world middleweight title for most of three years, had been beating himself up, guilt - ridden that for all his success in and out of the ring, he hadn't done enough to help others.

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.

# 21 Jennifer Chandler LINCOLN At 16 diving prodigy won gold medal in springboard at 1975 Pan Am Games; a year later she did the same at Olympics.

The Soviet squad at Squaw Valley is packed with world champions who could win every gold medal in both men's and women's events

Earlier in the week, on Valentine's Day, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean of Great Britain won the gold medal in ice dancing — as was expected — but Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert, the No. 1 U.S. ice dancers, four - time national champs and world bronze medalists, were euchred out of an Olympic medal in a game of musical snooker.

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.

American David Boudia wins gold medal in men's platform diving on final dive, first gold for a U.S. male diver in 20 years.

His wife, the former Mary Rand, who won a gold medal in the long jump — and set a world record — for Great Britain in the 1964 Olympics, listened patiently for a while.

He is 32 now, and since winning his gold medal in Mexico City his life - style has drastically changed.

Although he had won a gold medal in the 1976 Olympics and was undefeated in seven professional fights, if he was recognized in public, and he seldom was, it was mainly because of his black gunfighter's hat and his picket - fence smile.

American wrestler Kyle Snyder won the gold medal in the men's 97 kg freestyle wrestling competition at the Summer Olympics on Sunday.

She was the MVP of the USA Basketball Women's 3 × 3 U18 World Cup team that won a Gold Medal in early July in Chengdu, China.

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

«I reckon it's going to be really tough for me to win a gold medal in the Olympics,» he said after the L.A. meet.

WRESTLING — MARK SCHULTZ of Palo Alto, Calif., gold medalist in the 181 - pound division at the 1984 Olympics, beat Bulgaria's Alexander Nanev 10 - 5 to win a gold medal in the same division at the world championships in Budapest, Hungary.

At age 79 after he fell and hit his head on a concrete gym floor, Harold Connolly (above), who won the gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1956 Olympics despite throwing with a left arm that had been withered since birth.

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.

Jean Vuarnet of France, who won the gold medal in the downhill at Squaw Valley in 1960, wrote of the way it was when he burst out of the starting gate: «I am now in another world — alone with trees and mountains.

No American woman has won a gold medal in the marathon since Joan Benoit Samuelson in 1984, which was the first women's Olympic marathon.

Dr Stephanie Cook, who won a gold medal in modern pentathlon in 2000, said: «I hope that this incredible atmosphere provides some inspiration for the athletes that are training here today.

No American woman has won a gold medal in the marathon since Joan Benoit Samuelson in 1984, but Jorgensen has made it clear that she wants to be the one to end the drought.

The United States failed to win the gold medal in the men's 4x400 relay for the first time since 1980 at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

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.

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

Indeed, it may have been a dream that began, incredibly, on the very day I was born, February 15, 1952, during the VI Olympic Winter Games in Oslo, Norway, the day that Dick Button, then a 22 - year - old Harvard senior, won the gold medal in men's figure skating.

Maybe they look like perfectly still, beautiful angels, and your baby looks like they're about to win a gold medal in gymnurstics.

The mathematics professor, who was born in 1977, won a gold medal in the 1994 International Mathematical Olympiad, the first female Iranian student to do so.

Esther Kolawole of Mountain of Fire Ministries Club has won a gold medal in the 61 kg female cadet at the ongoing Gov. Wike National...