A medal at the Olympics!

A medal at the Olympics.

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Silver Medal of the International Olympic Committee.

He earned his third gold medal on the medley relay race.

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It was his second Olympic medal, having won the bronze in 1956.

This was the fifth Olympic gold medal for Canada in hockey.

Mauritius won its first Olympic medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing when boxer Bruno Julie won the bronze medal.

An Olympic gold medal is probably the most coveted sporting prize.

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Dutch skater Sjoukje Dijkstra took the silver medal she would finish her amateur career with an Olympic gold medal in 1964.

Biography Schockemöhle won his first Olympic gold medal in 1960 on the German show jumping team, followed in 1968 by a bronze medal.

We congratulate him on his gold medal victory in the Men s 110 M Hurdles Olympic Event.

That would be an Olympic event turn a squirrel loose, whoever catches it gets a gold medal.

At the Turin Olympics, Belbin and Agosto won the silver medal in ice dancing, the first American ice dancers to win an Olympic medal in 30 years.

He is the 1964 Olympic bronze medalist, the 1965 World silver medalist, and the 1964 and 1966 U.S. national champion.

Not only did she win Puerto Rico's first ever Olympic gold medal in any sport, but she is also the first woman to win an Olympic medal for Puerto Rico. (She isn't the first Puerto Rican to win gold, however.

She became the first Canadian and first North American woman to win an Olympic medal in cross country skiing.

He is the only person to win an Olympic medal while serving as president of a National Olympic Committee.

During the award ceremony it was the Dutch Anton Geesink, Olympic champion in 1964, who gave the medal to Douillet.

That medal would prove to be his final Olympic or World Championship medal in a running event.

She also competed as a pairs skater with her husband Edgar Syers, winning the bronze medal at the 1908 Olympics.

Twenty eight years later, he was awarded a silver medal in architecture for his stadium design, co designed with Dezső Lauber.

This was the first Olympic gold medal in ice hockey for the United States and it would mark the last time a Soviet team did not win the Olympic tournament until the United States victory at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

If his assertion was correct, Patton would likely have won an Olympic medal in the event.

Earlier in the same Olympics, Wolde had already won the silver medal in the 10,000 m. In 1972, Wolde won a third Olympic medal at the age of 40, winning bronze in the marathon.

It was the first Olympic medal for the German Football Associations since 1988 when the men's team also won bronze.

At the 2006 U.S. Championships, Meissner won the silver medal and was named to the U.S. team to the 2006 Winter Olympics.

In the men's event, David Jenkins, brother of 1956 Winter Olympic figure skating champion Hayes Jenkins, won the gold medal.

He also won a bronze medal with the Canadian 4x100m relay team of Johnson, Tony Sharpe, Desai Williams and Sterling Hinds, who ran a time of 38.70.

In the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China, Boukpeti led after the semifinal, eventually claiming the Bronze medal in the K1 Kayak Single, the first ever Olympic medal for Togo.

He won an individual bronze medal and a team gold medal with his teammates Erwann Le Péchoux, Victor Sintès, and Brice Guyart, an Olympic gold medalist.

In the 1980 Moscow games, Ottey became the first female English speaking Caribbean athlete to win an Olympic medal.

After he received his medal at the ceremony, he calmly shook the hand of the presenter and then the hand of the other bronze medal winner.

At the 2008 Pan American Weightlifting Championships he won the silver medal in the 62 kg category, lifting 302 kg in total.

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He also followed Bolt home in the final of the 200 metres where he won the silver medal in a time of 19.44 seconds.

Host nation Yugoslavia won its first Olympic medal when alpine skier Jure Franko won a silver in the giant slalom.

This article lists the athletes who won a medal (awarded retrospectively by the International Olympic Committee) to 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens (Greece).

Lewis is the current World Champion and they say he is expected to give Grenada it s first ever Olympic medal prays Come on Randy!

Our spirit of partnership, our faultless cooperation and our consensus on the text mean that, today, if this were an Olympic competition, we would have to share the gold medal.

We dug as deep as we could, and as the cadence of our steps increased and the sled accelerated, we left everything we had on the track, before leaving the ice and boarding our Night Train sled.