Sentence examples for medals against from inspiring English sources

Then this year Lemaitre earned greater credibility internationally by winning two medals against much stiffer competition at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea.

I must balance the pleasure of watching young people competing for medals against dismay at the billions spent turning my city into a tacky shambles.

Most of Pisanello's painted portraits, such as the Margherita Gonzaga (c. 1438), and Lionello d'Este (c. 1440), show the sitter in profile (a convention of Pisanello's portrait medals) against a background of delicate, colourful flowers and butterflies.

Inside the memorial, thousands walked through three rooms with near-identical displays featuring the 1962 Alberto Korda photograph of the young Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains, bouquets of white flowers and an array of Castro's medals against a black backdrop, framed by honor guards of soldiers and children in school uniforms.

"But we managed to take respectable eight medals against a world-class field.

In Glasgow the island will find itself fighting for medals against some of the world's most powerful sporting nations.

Jamie Staff, Jason Kenny and Chris Hoy will ride for the gold medal against France, a repeat of the World Championship final.

NBCSN, 2 45 p.m. WATER POLO The United States is also playing for a women's water polo gold medal against Spain.

The winner will play for the gold medal against the winner of the other semifinal between Spain and Hungary.

On Wednesday, the U.S. women's national ice-hockey team will play for the gold medal, against Canada.

The victorious Americans were thinking only of their next game, which will come Thursday when they play for the gold medal against Canada, a 5-0 winner against Finland in Monday's other semifinal.