Sentences with phrase «winning gold medals as»

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.

He also won a gold medal as a member of Team USA in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Not exact matches

Better known to many as «Lord Coe,» the IAAF's new leader is a former British track superstar who won four Olympic gold medals in the 1980s.

With U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and gymnastics gold medal favorite Simone Biles looking on, seven - times grand slam winner Williams won the first set but became frustrated as the match wore on, losing 4 - 6 6 - 3 7 - 6 (5) to the world number 62.

She resumed athletics as a wheelchair basketball player, starring on the U.S. gold medal - winning team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, then took up alpine skiing, winning two gold metals, a silver and a bronze in Vancouver and this past weekend a silver in Sochi.

The loss will not be the end of the competition for 2000 Sydney Games champion Williams, however, as the 36 - year - old is bidding to win her fourth doubles gold medal with sister Serena.

And if Simone Biles wins the individual all - around as expected, it will be another feather for Karolyi: the first time a country has claimed that gold medal in four consecutive Olympics.

And as I learned later it won a gold medal at the 2014 Wizards of Whiskey Awards.

The tequila has been very successful and won gold medals from several spirits competitions and was listed as an Oprah favorite.

As the first Singaporean athlete to ever win an Olympic gold medal, the 21 - year - old University of Texas student received a $ 753,000 bonus for the win, which he was able to accept as part of the allowable NCAA guidelines — but that's it, for noAs the first Singaporean athlete to ever win an Olympic gold medal, the 21 - year - old University of Texas student received a $ 753,000 bonus for the win, which he was able to accept as part of the allowable NCAA guidelines — but that's it, for noas part of the allowable NCAA guidelines — but that's it, for now.

One thing to know: Already a gold - medal winner in 2010 and the most decorated female skier in World Cup wins, Vonn is on a hot streak as she heads to Pyeongchang.

And though Lochte's gold - medal - winning teammate Michael Phelps has never commented on the incident, he might as well have, given his reaction to Fallon's Ryan Lochte spoof.

And Team USA brought in more gold yesterday, as Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian ever, with 21 gold medals, while young Katie Ledecky, who may some day surpass him, won her third.

Phelps won yet another gold medal and regained the title for the 200 - meter butterfly, going into retirement as the most decorated Olympian ever.

«I wanted to compete as if I'd never won anything and I would go as the underdog, even though a lot of times I was not,» says Ohno, dressed in a shimmery gold tracksuit, the medals slung around his neck to complete the look of an exaggerated version of himself: the spokesman obsessed with gold.

We play pretty good games of golf and tennis at our own clubs, and in 1972 Mark Spitz became the first Jew, as the joke goes, ever to win seven gold medals at the Olympic Games.

Rémy Martin Centaure de Diamant won a Tasting Gold Award, Best in Class, at the 2011 International Wine and Spirit Competition as well as a gold medal at the 2013 International Wine and Spirit CompetitGold Award, Best in Class, at the 2011 International Wine and Spirit Competition as well as a gold medal at the 2013 International Wine and Spirit Competitgold medal at the 2013 International Wine and Spirit Competition.

Two years later, at the 1958 FIS world championships in Bad Gastein, she took both the women's downhill and giant slalom and was hailed as the new ruler of the skiing world, the first girl since the great Andrea Mead Lawrence to win two gold medals in world competition.

Adam Clawson BRYSON CITY, N.C. Clawson, 18, a member of the U.S. team in white - water slalom canoeing, won the silver medal in the men's singles and a gold medal as part of the team competition at the world championships.

SKIING — NORWAY took five gold medals in the world Nordic championships in Oslo as BJORN WIRKOLA, a 22 - year - old shipping clerk, won both the Holmenkollen Hill special 90 - meter and the 70 - meter jumps, and 24 - year - old GJERMUND EGGEN took two individual cross-country gold medals — the 50 kilometer and 15 - kilometer — and anchored the winning 40 - kilometer relay team (page 51).

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

In a race that jolted his sport, 21 - year - old Usain Bolt of Jamaica smashed the world record for 100 meters and established himself as a threat to win multiple gold medals at the Beijing Olympics

Last October, Roberto, now 24, won the light welterweight gold medal at the Brazilian championships, and he is likely to qualify for the London Olympics as a welterweight.

On the other hand, Pitou and Snite won three medals between them, all silver, while of the other countries only Germany had as many as two, a gold and a bronze.

Spencer Haywood says he wants to be remembered as one of the NBA's best players of all time, but he earned his place in history when he helped the 1968 U.S. Olympic basketball team win a gold medal.

More recently, McFadden established herself as one of the best wheelchair racers in the world at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, winning five medals in five events, including four golds.

Kurt Russell (above, left) as Herb Brooks, coach of the 1980 gold - medal - winning U.S. Olympic hockey team in Lake Placid, in the 2004 film Miracle.

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.

# 32 Walt Bellamy NEW BERN Two - time All - America at Indiana; played on 1960 Olympic gold - medal - winning basketball team; averaged 31.6 points as a rookie with Chicago Packers.

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.

Before winning their own gold medal, the U.S. women's basketball players watched from the upper reaches of Karaiskaki Stadium as the U.S. women's soccer team played for gold.

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 West Germans are winning more than twice as many gold medals as their teammates and compatriots from the East.)

# 23 Henry Wittenberg JERSEY CITY As light heavyweight won wrestling gold medal at 1948 Olympics and silver at»52 Games.

The three - time world champion won a gold medal last Thursday with as much brio as he could muster under difficult circumstances.

Just a nice, quiet, radically fast young man with no interest in making social statements and no clue as to why anyone — all the reporters who peppered him with questions about race after he won the gold medal, all the people roaming websites, even a writer from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED — would make color an issue.

Adds U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, whose attempt to win as many as eight gold medals figures to be one of the Games» biggest stories, «It's pretty much going to be like Fort Knox over there.»

Turn around again and you're the coach of a gold - medal - winning Southern white youth who chooses the look and style of a black youth as he sprints right through what's left of the barriers because he never even sees any barriers.

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.

The Michelangelo - inspired gatefold, which depicts such scenes as Lyle Alzado and Ben Johnson eating of the forbidden fruit and Pete Rose being banished from Eden, won a gold medal for SI's creative director, Steve Hoffman, from the Society of Publication Designers.

If he wins the gold medal, he might as well be knighted on the spot.

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

«I don't walk around in my leotard wearing my medals,» says Retton, who at age 16 won the all - around gold as well as two silvers (in team competition and the vault) and two bronzes (uneven bars and floor exercises) at the Los Angeles Games in 1984.

The Olympic Athletes from Russia lived up to their billing as favorites in Pyeongchang with an exciting 4 - 3 overtime win over Germany in the gold medal game Saturday night.

The man who wins the gold medal will probably endure as the Olympics» only biathlon champion: the event has just been voted out of the next Winter Games in 1964.

Ionescu's emergence wasn't that much of a surprise, as she was just coming off a solid performance with the gold - medal - winning USA Basketball U16 team in Mexico.

SELECTED: As the first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters, 5» 11» former Kansas star LYNETTE WOODARD, 26, the captain of the gold - medal - winning 1984 U.S. Women's Olympic Basketball Team.

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

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.

Thompson, in fact, once broke Leslie's record as the all - time career scoring leader in the WNBA and they also were teammates on two U.S. Olympic teams that won gold medals.