(n.) A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.
(v. t.) To honor or reward with a medal.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
(2) Last month Kelli White, who won the 100 and 200 metres at the 2003 world championships in Paris, was banned for two years and stripped of her medals after admitting using THG.
(3) From Stranraer to Stornaway there is a fair chance every primary school child in the country will catch a glimpse of their heroine's gold medal at some stage, like it or not.
(4) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
(5) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
(6) In the men's double sculls Wells and Rowbotham continued the form that has seen them medal in every World Cup event.
(7) You have a secret hope but you like to keep it a secret because it sounds so arrogant to say I can win a medal and then don't get one."
(8) The unprecedented investment came to fruition in Beijing, with a medal count that the sports minister Hugh Robertson says was the ultimate proof of concept.
(9) As Mo Farah charged down the home straight, 80,000 people roaring him on to his second gold medal of these Games, his eyes wide, teeth bared, the whole stadium knew they were witnessing history in the making.
(10) Nicholls, who had qualified automatically for the final, scored 85.5 from the judges on his first run but was eventually nudged out of the medals.
(11) The men and women between them can now boast four medals at this Games, surpassing their targets (they had hoped for one or two), not to mention the British women's best placing in 84 years in the team final.
(12) She was fifth in the world championships in Moscow last year, where she missed out on a bronze medal by 28 points, and such was her performance in Götzis that her crushing disappointment on being ruled out of the Commonwealth Games was especially understandable.
(13) He's been the league MVP for two years in a row, he's the reigning NBA finals MVP, he led Team USA to a gold medal in last summer's Olympics, he's on this year's All-Defense first team, oh and there's that Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year thing … OK, you get the idea, there's a lot of compelling evidence out there that suggests that the dude knows how to play basketball.
(14) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
(15) It is trying to encourage people to register in their real names by adding a "medal of honour" for users who provide details for police checks.
(16) Given the paucity of British talent in the sport over recent decades, it is a tribute to Murray's remarkable consistency that in his last eight grand slam tournaments, he has reached three finals, four semi-finals and a quarter-final – not to mention overcoming Federer on Wimbledon's Centre Court to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
(17) Daley, who won a bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympics, said he wanted to reveal the news in a video because he didn't want his words to be "twisted".
(18) (Edinburgh) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fauja Singh is awarded a British Empire Medal.
(19) He hankered for a return to Spain but, despite collecting four winners’ medals in his first season and celebrating the first league title of his career the following year, things did not proceed entirely as he might have hoped at Camp Nou.
(20) "As a council we enjoyed great success with Jimi and HESCO Bastion working together with them to achieve a historic gold medal for the city at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and everyone who knew him will remember his quiet manner, good nature, and tremendous pride in being from Leeds.
Medalist
Definition:
(n.) A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals.
(n.) A designer of medals.
(n.) One who has gained a medal as the reward of merit.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) announced an urgent investigation into the claims , which have led athletes including British Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah to promise to publish their own blood test data to prove that they are clean.
(2) The two-time Olympic gold medalist Yelena Isinbayeva defended the legislation after she won the pole vault at the championships, saying two Swedish competitors who painted their fingernails with rainbows in support of LGBT rights were being disrespectful to Russia .
(3) These data indicated that canoeists, who were successful in 500 m races, had a higher percentage of fast twitch (FT) muscle fibers (range 50-59%) than medalists, who competed in 10,000 m races (26-52% FT).
(4) Excellent atmosphere February 9, 2014 3.29pm GMT France’s Anaïs Chevalier is the last woman to complete the sprint biathlon, but she cannot disrupt the medalists.
(5) He’s only 24 – silver-medalist Albert Demchenko is 42, so if Loch can keep going as long as the Russian he could win another four golds.
(6) Others to participate included former Russian international and Celta de Vigo midfielder Aleksandr Mostovoi and four-times Olympic medalist Evgeni Plushenko, who announced his retirement from competitive figure skating in March.
(7) Take pieces every round and then finish him off.” In the semi-main event, two-time Olympic gold medalist Vasyl Lomachenko defended his piece of the featherweight title by stopping Mexico’s Romulo Koasicha with a series of body shots in the 10th round.
(8) Following his exit from the Olympic Games at the semi-final stage, and after he had exchanged bib numbers with eventual gold medalist Kirani James in a hail of flash bulbs, he again referred back to his mother's influence in the mixed zone in the bowels of the stadium.
(9) Canada’s Sandrine Mainville, Chantal Van Landeghem, Taylor Ruck and Penelope Oleksiak took the bronze ahead of London silver medalists the Netherlands, who were anchored by triple Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo.
(10) In the words of Peter Kormann, an Olympic medalist in gymnastics, "All gymnasts work out and compete with ongoing problems in their upper extremities.
(11) The former male Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner has launched her new life as a woman on the cover of Vanity Fair, introducing her new identity to the world with an Annie Leibovitz portrait that has her posing in a revealing cream-colored silk corset under the headline “Call me Caitlyn”.
(12) Bronze, 2004 Athens Olympics Andrew Simpson – Gold medal, 2008 Beijing Olympics SWIMMING Mark Foster - Six-time World Champion, two-time Commonwealth Games champion Sharron Davies – Silver, 1980 Moscow Olympics, two-time Commonwealth Games champion Karen Pickering – Four-time World Champion, four-time Commonwealth Games champion Sascha Kindred – Seven-time Paralympic gold medallist Melanie Marshall - Six-time Commonwealth Games medalist, 2006 Melbourne Giles Long – Gold, 1996 Atlanta Paralympics.
(13) After Jenner’s interview with Sawyer, Olympians including Rowdy Gaines (winner of three golds in the swimming pool in Los Angeles in 1984) and Dwight Stones (a high jump bronze medalist in 1972 and 1976) expressed their support on Twitter.
(14) Five reasons for the continued strength of the pharmacy profession, each of which was originally proposed in 1953 by Hugh Muldoon, are explored in this address by 1990 Remington Medalist Joseph A. Oddis.
(15) Forty-five former athletes in endurance disciplines, primarily Olympic medalists and World Cup, European Cup, and German champions, for whom results of an exercise ECG and radiological heart volume measurement were available from their active competitive phase, were examined.
(16) It’s not just the medal, it’s not just you being the bronze medalist, silver medalist, gold medalist, but it’s about you putting out an honest effort.
(17) Men's 5,000m speed skating silver medalist Jan Blokhuijsen, gold medalist Sven Kramer and bronze medalist Jorrit Bergsma show off their medals.
(18) To investigate the role of the control of ventilation and lung volumes in these athletes, we studied the 10 members of the National Synchronized Swim Team including an olympic gold medalist and 10 age-matched controls.
(19) His Telegraph interview in 2005 concluded: “Oscar Pistorius is not a disabled gold medalist and world record holder, merely a gold medalist and world record holder with no legs.” Perhaps unfairly, his success in that regard is now being held up by media commentators as evidence that his defence must be fundamentally disingenuous.
(20) 7.11pm GMT There will be no Russian medalist on the normal hill – Mikhail Maksimochkin sits just 21st after his final leap sees him travel a meagre 90.5m.