Sentence examples for won the leading from inspiring English sources

Heading this list is France's Richard Virenque, who has won the leading climber's jersey the last five years and who finished on the Tour's final victory podium in 1996 and 1997.

The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius' silent, black-and-white hymn to Hollywood's golden era, was not completely shut out: Star Jean Dujardin won the leading male actor prize, while earlier in the weekend Hazanavicius took the top honour at another key Oscars bellwether, the Director's Guild of America awards.

Julianne Moore won the leading actress prize for her performance as a linguistics professor with early-onset Alzheimer's.

Fitzpatrick does have half an eye on joining the illustrious list of players to have won the leading amateur's medal at the Open, Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods and Jose Maria Olazabal included, but the young Yorkshireman is keeping his feet firmly on the ground.

The design won the Leading European Architecture Forum (Leaf) award this month.

Georgina Campbell and Jason Watkins won the Leading Actress and Actor prizes for Murdered By My Boyfriend and The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, with Gemma Jones and Stephen Rea picking up the supporting gongs for Marvellous and The Honourable Woman.

Dutrow helped Goldfarb win the leading owner title in New York from 2001 to 2003.

Meanwhile, Anglo-Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis is a favourite to win the leading actor prize for his turn as Lincoln in Spielberg's historical drama.

If fellow cast member Matthew McConaughey wins the leading actor trophy, he and Leto would be the fourth duo from the same film to have won both categories.

Television viewers won't find out for several weeks whether Megan Hilty wins the leading role in a fictional Broadway musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe on the new NBC series "Smash".

In October, she became the first woman to win the leading rider title at Keeneland Race Course.