Sentence examples for is first contested from inspiring English sources

And voter approval last November of a full-time mayor elected citywide prompted predictions that costs could reach $500,000 when that race is first contested in 1988.

The women's 3,000-metre 3,000-metrepursuindividualst contested at the 1992 Olympursuites.

Relatively few Derby fans could correctly identify 1875 as the year that the Derby was first contested.

They know when women's hockey was first contested at the 1998 Olympics, the United States topped Canada.

Wrestling is actually one of the world's oldest sports and was first contested at the ancient Olympics in 708BC.

When the Fastnet race was first contested in 1925, the lighthouse keepers telegraphed the times as the yachts made the turn to the race committee.

In the process, Rahlves became only the third American man to win at the world championships, which were first contested in 1931.

Though the triathlon is an American creation -- and was first contested in San Diego in 1974 -- Mike McMahon was the only American who made it on the podium today.

It is the first 3m springboard medal ever won by a British man since the event was first contested in London in 2008.

She won the seat for South Cambridgeshire in May's general election, succeeding former health secretary Andrew Lansley, who had held it since it was first contested in 1997.

The America's Cup was first contested around the Isle of Wight in 1851 but it has never been won by a British boat.