Sentence examples for won a commonwealth from inspiring English sources

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.

Having won a Commonwealth writing scholarship in the mid-1970s, he'd come to London at just 16 and fallen in love with this city of promise and prosperity.

The 16-year-old, who won a Commonwealth bronze medal in the 58kg category in Delhi last year, was shocked to hear that her funding had been suspended by the governing body a fortnight ago.

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.

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 391pp, Fourth Estate, £14.99 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's luminous and formidable talent was first seen in Purple Hibiscus, her 2004 novel about a childhood devastated by a religious patriarch, which won a Commonwealth writers' prize and was shortlisted for the Orange prize.

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.