Sentence examples for top medal from inspiring English sources

Wilder saw Gary Russell Jr., a top medal hope, collapse from heat exhaustion during a final effort to make weight.

A fully fit Idowu would be one of the top medal hopes among British track and field athletes.

German speed skater Claudia Pechstein won two medals in Turin, bringing her career total to nine and making her the top medal winner in her sport's Olympic history.

Regina Jacobs, considered a top medal contender in the women's 1,500 meters, has withdrawn from the Sydney Olympics because of a respiratory infection.

Gavin, a 22-year-old left-hander from Birmingham, England, was perhaps the top medal hope on the resurgent British team, which qualified eight boxers for the Games.

Therapeutic exemptions are made for some Paralympians, but the use of anabolic steroids — which Russia's antidoping lab director said was common among top medal contenders — is unequivocally prohibited.

In Baku, the top medals were decided by a "byzantine" tiebreak, as Donaldson put it.

Now Britain's Royal Geographical Society will award him one of its top medals for "the encouragement of geographical discovery through travel writing".

Marin Rowing's athletes took top medals at the famed Head of the Charles last weekend in the first major regatta of the season.

At the Beijing Paralympic Games of 2008, she earned five medals, tied the record of swimmer Purificación Santamarta, and became the top-medal winner in the Paralympic Games of 2008.

He also served as an assistant coach at the 2014 Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Chatpionships, at which he helped Team USA top the medal standings with 115 medals, including 34 golds.