The phrase "first champion" is correct and can be used in written English.
Example: The entrepreneur was the first champion of the local youth center.
"She's my first champion," said her owner, Wendy Anderson.
The conference will crown its first champion after next month's playoffs.
He was known as the first champion of women and minorities in the workplace.
And what neighborhood did the first champion in the Battle for Manhattan call home?
INSIDE TRACK The first champion of the meet was crowned Thursday in the decathlon.
McIlroy is the first champion not to defend the Claret Jug since 1954.
If England wins, it will become the first champion from the Northern Hemisphere.
Nor was Rousey the first champion to lose in an upset few people had predicted.
Dundee's first champion was Carmen Basilio, the welterweight and middleweight titleholder of the 1950s from upstate New York.
Mansell would have been Britain's first champion since James Hunt in 1976, but disaster struck at the worst possible moment.
The Wertheimers' first winner was in 1911; their first champion was Epinard, in the early 20's.
