Examples of medalist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Kulichenko, a silver medalist at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival, was able to easily gain second citizenship because her father works and owns property in the country. — Madeline Roache, Time, 6 July 2021 The 2016 gold medalist at 97kg -- at just 20 years old and fresh off his sophomore season at Ohio State -- will be looking to repeat after cruising through the 2021 U.S. Olympic trials in April. — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 5 July 2021 Murphy, 25, is a graduate of the University of California, Berkley and a three-time Olympic gold medalist who qualified to compete in the 200m and 100m backstroke at the Tokyo Games during the Team USA swimming trials in June. — Jacorey Moon, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2021 Katie, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, opened her ambitious week of swimming on Monday with the preliminaries and final of the 400 freestyle. — New York Times, 17 June 2021 The refugee team for the Tokyo Olympics will have 29 athletes competing in 12 sports, including a medalist at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games who left Iran citing institutional sexism. — Graham Dunbar, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021 The 2016 Olympian and silver medalist at the 2017 World Outdoor Championships was focused on her own goals. — Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 28 May 2021 Biles is already one of the world's most famous and compelling athletes, a four-time Olympic gold medalist who has no peers in her sport -- now or ever. — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 23 May 2021 Lee Evans, a San Jose State graduate, social justice advocate and two-time Olympic gold medalist who was part of the iconic social justice protests at the 1968 Summer Games, has died. — Michael Lerseth, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2021

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