What's the difference between medalist and medallist?
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.