Sentence examples for first medal winner from inspiring English sources

"I really enjoyed watching Lizzie Armitstead (who won silver in the women's road race to become Britain's first medal winner at the Games).

Rudman, Britain's first medal winner of the Turin Games, was dislodged from the gold medal position only during the last run of the event, by the European champion, Maya Pederson from Switzerland.

Portaferry man James Brown missed out on becoming Northern Ireland's first medal winner at the Paralympics after finishing fourth in the 4K pursuit event on Thursday.

Alain Baxter thought he had become Britain's first medal-winner on snow in the 2002 Winter Olympics when he finished third in the men's slalom, but his bronze was taken away in controversial circumstances after he failed a drugs test.

At the 2010 Games in Vancouver she improved to eighth – medal winners in the sport tend to be in their early 30s – only to lose her lottery funding as the UK governing body for skiing and snowboarding collapsed.

So when Begg-Smith's finals run here vaulted him again into first place with three competitors remaining, it looked as if Canada's first gold medal winner would be the one who got away.

In 1998 he became the first Fields Medal winner to leave the academic world when he accepted a position with the Theory Group at Microsoft Research, a division of Microsoft Corporation.

Gordon Benson swam, cycled and ran into the history books on Sunday when he became Great Britain's first gold medal winner at the European Games.

"I was thinking for sure I would win the bronze, I would still make history -- the first double medal winner in judo.

Gutsy Gordon's gold glow It all began with Gordon Benson, who became Great Britain's first gold medal winner at the European Games when he swam, cycled and ran to victory in the triathlon.

After the women's individual competition at Lord's, the silver medallist, Aída Román, and bronze medallist, Mariana Avitia, took a call from the president of Mexico, who wished to congratulate them on becoming their country's first ever medal winners in archery.