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Accra Hearts of Oak SC

Hearts of Oak won their first major match in 1922 when Sir Gordon Guggisberg, governor of the Gold Coast, founded the Accra Football League.

Adelaide Ristori

In 1857 she visited Madrid, playing in Spanish to enthusiastic audiences, and in 1866 she paid the first of four visits to the United States, where she won much applause, particularly in Paolo Giacometti's Elisabeth, an Italian study of the English sovereign.

Aldo Zargani

It has won three Italian awards (Ischia International Journalism Award, Premio Acqui Storia, Premio Sant'Anna di Stazzema) and was shortlisted for four prestigious literary prizes (Premio Viareggio, Premio Pisa, Premio Lucca and Pen Club Award).

Alexandra Proklova

In her first JGP event in Košice, Slovakia, she won the silver medal with a total score 3.97 points less than gold medalist Karen Chen.

Alexis Panisse

She won gold medals over 1500 and 5000 metres at the 2012 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics in San Salvador.

Austin Dillon

On July 11, 2010, Dillon scored his first career NASCAR victory in the Lucas Oil 200 at Iowa Speedway in the Camping World Truck Series and won a Truck Series race in a truck wearing the No. 3 for the first time since Bryan Reffner won for Team Menard in 2000 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Benedicto Caldarella

He won in his only Grand Prix race at the 1962 500cc Argentine Grand Prix.

Birds Anonymous

Birds Anonymous won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1957 beating Tabasco Road starring Speedy Gonzales and his drunk friends; both shorts were eventually given Blue Ribbon reissues.

Bow High School

Student Teal Van Dyck won second place in the national Poetry Out Loud in 2006, earning a $10,000 scholarship.

Bruce McCulloch

McCulloch also directed the music video for the Tragically Hip’s song “My Music at Work,” for which he won the award of "Best Director" at the 2000 MuchMusic Video Awards.

Bülent Akinci

After shooting some short films, he finally won the F. W. Murnau prize in 2002 for his short film A short story (2001), starring actress Gudrun Landgrebe.

Cameron King

In December 2009 he won the Val Lembit Memorial Trophy for the most outstanding sportsman in NSW, awarded by the Combined High Schools, joining previous winners such as olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and first grade rugby league player Blake Green.

Cheikh Tidiane Gaye

His poems won prizes in poetry competition Sulle orme di Ada Negri in Lodi and he received a special mention at the IX International Contest di Trieste Scritture di Frontiera, the Literary Award dedicated to Umberto Saba.

Clark Bautista

In the Philippine Collegiate Champions League later that year, Bautista would play a key part in the Tigers run in the tournament as they first won the Metro Manila-Luzon tournament by defeating both the Letran Knights and the Adamson Soaring Falcons to enter into the PCCL Final Four with the Ateneo Blue Eagles, San Beda Red Lions and the Southwestern U Cobras.

David Carstens

He won the gold medal in the Light heavyweight competition in Los Angeles, beating Gino Rossi of Italy in the final match.

Dillington House

Designed by Tim Rolt and Dan Talkes of Purcell Miller Tritton, the building won the 2010 South-West Region Architecture Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Dynastar

Tommy Moe won the 1994 Olympic downhill on Dynastar skis.

EarthSync

Laya Project won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival in Tanzania and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur.

Emporia State University

In March 2010, the Lady Hornets basketball team won the NCAA Division II National Championship, defeating the Fort Lewis College (Colorado) Skyhawks.

Ford Racing

1909 - A Ford Model T won the transcontinental New York to Seattle cross-country race (about 6600 km).

France national under-20 rugby union team

The France Under 20's won two of their five matches and finished 4th in the 2010 Six Nations Championship

Gabriel Varga

He returned to the ring on January 8, 2011 at a Canada vs. China event in Jinan, China where he won by unanimous decision under sanshou rules.

Garnet Bougoure

At the Perak Turf Club racecourse in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, he won the 1954 Sultan Gold Vase, repeating as winner in 1958 when he also won the Perak Derby.

Greg Mullavey

His father, Gregory Thomas "Greg" Mulleavy, played Major League Baseball for the White Sox, Red Sox, third base coach for Brooklyn Dodgers and LA Dodgers, and won four World Series with the Dodgers.

Hsu Hsin-liang

He was expelled from Kuomintang but broke ranks in 1977 when he ran and won as an independent in the election for Magistrate of Taoyuan County.

I'm on Drugs

It contains the title track, "I'm On Drugs" and the death metal version of "Candy" by Ten Masked Men, who won the XFM covers competition.

Ice Hockey European Championship 1922

The tournament was played between February 14, and February 16, 1922, in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and it was won by Czechoslovakia.

Isaiah Williams

His twin sister, Tahirah, played basketball as a guard at Connecticut She was a senior on the 2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team that went undefeated and won the National Championship.

Jean-Philippe Lamoureux

His sisters Jocelyne and Monique, both born 1989 (twins), both won silver medals with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and are currently both forwards with the women's NCAA team at the University of North Dakota.

Jill Bolte Taylor

After Bolte Taylor's representative, transmedia agent and attorney Ellen Stiefler, conducted an auction for worldwide publishing rights to "My Stroke of Insight," Penguin won the book.

Journal of Contemporary History

The winner of the first George L. Mosse Prize in 2006 was the British historian of Nazi Germany Alex J. Kay, who won for his article Germany’s Staatssekretäre, Mass Starvation and the Meeting of 2 May 1941.

Justin Kaplan

Walt Whitman won the 1981 award for hardcover "Autobiography/Biography".

Leon Baptiste

On 10 October 2010 Baptiste won the 200 m gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, ensuring England's first sprint gold at the games for 12 years since Julian Golding in 1998.

Lingayen-Lucena corridor

The Lingayen-Lucena corridor is the part of Luzon in the Philippines, between Lingayen (in Pangasinan) to Lucena, comprising the province of Pangasinan, and the regions of Central Luzon, Metro Manila and CALABARZON, where national elections are claimed to be won.

Marina Shainova

At the 2006 European Championships in Władysławowo, Poland she won gold in the Women's 58 kg with 237 kg in total, breaking three European records.

Menow

As a two-year-old, Menow won the 1937 Champagne Stakes in September, although most attention was given to the fatal injury sustained by the favorite Skylarking.

Nurhan Çınar

She played in the Turkey U18 girls' national team, and won the bronze medal at the 2011 EuroHockey U18 Girls' Championship III held in Smolevichi, Minsk, Belarus.

Ontario Hockey Association

Only three teams from Ontario ever won the Hardy Cup (that ran from 1968–1990), two from the OHA: Georgetown Raiders in 1982 and Dundas Real McCoys in 1986.

Phil Bayton

Joining the Thornhill Cycling Club in Birmingham he won a handicap race at Hirwaun in South Wales as a 16 year old junior and a year later was part of the GB Olympic squad under Norman Sheil.

Politics of Long Island

In 1972, Richard Nixon won Nassau, Suffolk and Queens and came within 14,000 votes of winning heavily Democratic Brooklyn.

Portuguese presidential election, 2006

The result was a victory in the first round for Aníbal Cavaco Silva of the Social Democratic Party candidate, the former Prime Minister, won 50.54 percent of the vote in the first round, just over the majority required to avoid a runoff election.

Ronato Alcano

In an attempt to defend his title at the 2007 World Nine-ball Championship, Alcano was bested in the last 64 by Daryl Peach of the United Kingdom who ultimately won the title.

Russell Beardsmore

He did not feature in a single competitive game when United won the first Premier League title in 1992–93, and at the end of the season signed for Bournemouth on a free transfer.

Sverre Andersen

He won goalkeeper of the year in 1962, 1963, 1965 and 1968 in the VG Awards.

T3 Technion Technology Transfer

Having won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, the drug is now marketed world-wide as AzilectTM.

Tatiana Navka

Navka has also partnered with Russian celebrities to compete in Channel One Russia ice shows: Stars On Ice, which she won with actor Marat Basharov, and Ice Age, in which she was runner-up with actor Ville Haapasalo.

Ulster Schools' Cup

Methodist College Belfast have won the most titles, with 36 (34 outright wins and 2 shared wins).

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1964

During the Concurrent House elections of 1964 in Georgia, Republicans picked up a seat from the Democrats, that being the Third district House seat won by Howard Callaway who became the first Republican to be elected to the House of Representatives from Georgia since Reconstruction.

Yordenis Ugás

" Later Ugás beat Russian Khabib Allakhverdiyev and in the final he outfought Romal Amanov from Azerbaidjan. Cubanet.org writes "Yordenis Ugas, a sharp, technically accomplished fighter but with a suspect jaw, won the lightweight gold for Cuba after an explosive toe-to-toe clash with Romal Amanov of Azerbaijan.

Yuri Dolgorukov

Sophronius "Yuri" Dolgorukov (1602–1682), general and governor, won a series of victories in the Russian-Polish war of 1654-67, including the Battle of Werki, led the army to crush the rebellion C. Razin


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