"first prize winner" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when describing a person who won the top prize in a competition or contest. For example, "John was the first prize winner of the national math competition."
Age 16 School Bridgetown High Reason for applying to J8 First prize winner of the Albert Luthuli Young Historians Prize, and Girls'/Boys' Education Movement Club member.
If you haven't liked it already, head over there now as we'll be announcing our first prize winner soon!
And New Orleans based Jonathan Bachman, first prize winner in the Contemporary Issues category, is worth a mention for his unforgettable picture of passive resistance.
The first prize winner in black and white, Gloria Golden's "Moment of Prayer," is technically more conventional, but has mysterious overtones.
Arta's team was the first prize winner of the 2012 IBPSA Student Competition Award in Chambery, France, and her Master's thesis, Radiative Cooling Roof Systems, was a winner of the Harvard Sustainability Grant.
A painting such as the extraordinary portrait of her dead mother by Daphne Todd, which was last year's first prize winner in the BP Portrait award, takes on all the challenges of representation.
First prize winners take home $3,000; second prize is $1,500 and third $750.
Also today, Gallery North opens "Ourselves: Women Portray Women," a group exhibition that, along with "First Prize Winners of the 1999 Outdoor Art Show," runs through April 9.
Many other colleges and universities around the country now give similar prizes to their undergraduates in recognition of connoisseurship in book collecting and in 2005, a national collegiate book collecting contest was established to include the first prize winners from each of the university contests.
I'll pick two first prize winners and three second prize winners on Monday.
First prize winners will snag €30,000 apiece; second prize winners will get €15,000; and third prize apps will take €5,000.
