The second-place competitor ate 26.
Last year, U.S. News, the perennial third-place competitor owned by Mortimer B. Zuckerman, became as much about consumer advice and ranking products and services as about news.
When Klüft won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, her 517-point margin of victory over Lithuanian silver medalist Austra Skujyte was greater than Skujyte's margin over the 25th-place competitor.
Earlier this year, for example, Vodafone AirTouch of Britain acquired the German company Mannesmann, which is equal to Deutsche Telekom in the wireless business and is a strong second-place competitor in wired telephone service.
They were only driven to doing the right thing because they were the distant fourth-place competitor in a vicious market; and now that Softbank/Sprint is on the verge of buying them, everything may change.
He has won 22 of 35 contests, 1.9 million more votes than his second-place competitor, and more pledged delegates than everyone else.
In the 200-meter freestyle she performed better still, leading the eight-woman pack from the beginning, and finishing nearly two seconds ahead of the second-place competitor.
That may be obvious in the case of something like sales, but Dutch advertising firms with better-looking executives also had better revenue than their similarly placed competitors.
My way in to the Étape, open to anyone on production of a doctor's certificate of good health, was to apply through the UK charity Get Kids Going, which specialises in placing competitors on events of their choice, in return for raising money for disabled children.
Scaling a marketplace presents great challenges; challenges for which startups may not be the ideally placed competitors in most cases.
Steinitz wrote that he would not play in the tournament and would not challenge the winner unless the second and third placed competitors failed to do so.
