Sentence examples for jump medal from inspiring English sources

If he can patch himself up, a triple jump medal is not beyond the bounds of possibility, although Americans Christian Taylor and Will Claye will be tough to beat.

Steve Smith was the last Briton to win an Olympic high jump medal when he took bronze at the Atlanta Games in 1996, but not since Con Leahy, in London in 1908, has the team won silver.

Juri Tarmak may have straddled his way to gold in 1972, but since then no one has won a high jump medal of any colour using any technique other than the Fosbury Flop.

In 1968 Olympics Fosbury was the only person using his technique, which was now called the 'Fosbury Flop', but since 1972 no Olympic gold high jump medal has been won using any method but this, and today every competitor uses the Fosbury Flop.

Similarly, the South Yorkshire village of Toll Bar, which became nationally famous after severe flooding in 2007, was the home of Mr Softee, David Broome's show-jumping medal winner at the 1968 Olympics, which belonged to the Masserella ice cream-making family from nearby Doncaster.

Britain haven't won an Olympic jumping medal for 28 years but will go into London 2012 full of hope of ending that run.

Medal table – men's ski jumping Medal table – women's ski jumping At the closing ceremonies of the championships, FIS President Kasper expressed great satisfaction with the championships, stating that it was the first time that a nation without any successful national favorites (The Czech won only one medal, a silver by Bauer in the men's 15 km) had organized such a successful championship.

Simon Ammann of Switzerland won the men's large hill ski jump on Saturday, becoming the first person to win four individual gold ski jumping medals.

There was a surprise high jump bronze medal last night, courtesy of the inspired Martyn Bernard, making it five British medals in all halfway through the championships' six days: two gold, two silver, one bronze.

Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA 2.39pm BST Greg Rutherford holds up his long jump gold medal in front of St Paul's Cathedral.

Javier Sotomayor, winner of the Olympic high jump silver medal following his reinstatement from a drug ban, won his specialty at an indoor meet yesterday in Athens.