Sentence examples for took silver after from inspiring English sources

Germany took silver after Simon Schempp could to keep pace with Anton Shipulin in the home straight.

Still, he practically trampled over his entourage to shake her hand for the cameras as she took silver after losing to the USA's Kayla Harrison.

Daniell took silver after beating reigning champion Jason Kenny 2-1 in the semi-finals.

Fellow Britons Harvey Horn, Muhammad Ali, Qaid Ashfaq and Pat McCormack all took silver after losing their respective finals.

Matthew Purssey took silver after losing the -90kg final to South Africa's Zack Piontek and Andrew Burns secured bronze after seeing off Australian Marc Anthony.

Germany continued their three-year unbeaten run in the men's eight but the new-look British crew took silver after leading at halfway, before the world champions powered away in the closing stages.

Idowu missed out on gold at the Beijing games, instead taking silver after being out-jumped by Portugal's Nelson Evora.

Japan's Ayumu Hirano took silver with a 93.5, after leading the field in the first with a 90.5.

James Woods is attempting to win Britain's first Olympic medal in the event after he took silver at last year's world championships.

Then, in 2008, she took silver behind Armstrong in Beijing after covering a hilly 23.5km time-trial course in 35 minutes 16.0 seconds.

GB's first medal of the Games was won by cyclist Lizzie Armitstead after she took silver in the road race.