Sentence examples for win a commonwealth from inspiring English sources

And on Saturday she should become the first woman to win a Commonwealth Games title.

Montsho became the first athlete from Botswana to win a Commonwealth gold in 2010 and the first to win a world championship gold in 2011.

In October 2010, aged 16 and still at school, she became the first Englishwomen to win a Commonwealth weightlifting medal with bronze in the 58kg category.

By that time Freeman had already made an impact on the athletics scene, as a 16-year-old becoming the first Aborigine to win a Commonwealth Games gold in the 4x100m relay in 1990.

In doing so, she became the first English woman to win a Commonwealth medal.

The 28-year-old Cardiff cyclist became the first man from Wales to win a Commonwealth cycling gold.

But he has never won a Commonwealth championship and prepared diligently for this one last attempt.

She won a Commonwealth 1500m bronze medal in Manchester in 2002, behind Kelly Holmes and Hayley Tullett, and holds the British record for the 3,000m steeplechase.

The auditor-general's office will look into a federal funding program after the Liberal candidate Georgina Downer presented a giant novelty cheque emblazoned with her name and image to a local sports club which had won a commonwealth grant.

Foster, who won a Commonwealth pairs gold in Melbourne eight years ago, feared his chances of landing a second had been ruined just a fortnight before the game when his prize bowls were stolen.

A standing ovation of 40,000 clapped and stamped her around her victory lap after the poster girl for this Games won a second Commonwealth medal to add to the one she took in Delhi four years ago.