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1844 Victoria One Penny Model

The 1844 Victoria One Penny Model was a model coin issued by Birmingham medallist Joseph Moore (1817–1892) between 1844 and 1848, during a period in which the British Government were considering the notion of replacing the heavy copper coinage then in use.

1892 in Norway

1 February – Eugen Johansen, horse rider and Olympic silver medallist (died 1973)

1916 in Norway

17 August - Eivind Skabo, sprint canoer and Olympic bronze medallist (died 2006)

1998 in Norway

31 July - Erling Evensen, cross country skier and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1914)

2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump

Ioannou was Cyprus' only medallist from the championships that year.

2010 Commonwealth Games medal table

On 6 June 2011 the Commonwealth Games Federation announced Sean McGoldrick of Wales as the new gold medallist.

2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

Coming into the championships, Ivory Williams had ran a world-leading time of 6.49 seconds to win the US indoor championships, positioning him as a possible gold medallist.

Abraham Simon

Abraham Simon (1617-?1692) was an English medallist to the Royal Mint in the 17th century who worked closely with his brother Thomas Simon.

Adam van Koeverden

van Koeverden had led most of the way from the start, but was overtaken by the Australian winner Ken Wallace at the finish line, with British bronze medallist Tim Brabants ending in a photo finish with him.

Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres

In the ESPN documentary 9.79*, eventual silver medallist Christie states, and footage of the race shows, that Lewis "ran out of his lane... two or three times" during the race, which should have resulted in Lewis' automatic disqualification.

Belgrave Harriers

The club's membership contains several of Britain's leading athletes, including Olympic silver medallist and World Champion Phillips Idowu, Goldie Sayers, Dwain Chambers and Chicago Marathon winner Paul Evans as well as GB & NI 110m Hurdler William Sharman.

Bexley North, New South Wales

Bob Windle, gold medallist in the Men's 1500m Swimming Freestyle at the 1964 Summer Olympics, grew up in the suburb.

Bids for the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Ron Clarke, a medallist at both Commonwealth and Olympic Games and present Mayor of the Gold Coast, is expected to take a key role in promoting the bid.

Daniel Awde

He was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing after his training partner, former World Championship silver medallist Dean Macey, failed to achieve the qualifying standard.

Emma Hindle

When Kyrklund moved to the UK in 1993, Hindle moved to the base of Netherlands Olympic dressage medallist Ellen Bontje in Frankfurt, Germany.

Finland at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Defending gold medallist Tomi Poikolainen bettered his performance of four years earlier by one point, but with the return of the United States and Japan, Poikolainen's score was no longer sufficient to earn a medal and he fell to fifth place.

Giannino Castiglioni

Giannino Castiglioni * in 1884 in Milan Italy is an Italian Artist, and Medallist.

Gorleston

Jessica-Jane Applegate Gold medallist at the 2012 Paralympian Games in 200m Freestyle swimming S14.

Hong Kong Sports Stars Awards

Wong Kam-po, the gold medallist in Asian Junior Cycling Championships, also won the Junior Sports Star Award for the first time.

Irene Kwambai

She was the silver medallist in the event at the 2007 World Military Games a few months later, where she was beaten by her national rival Doris Changeywo.

Jacky Carlier

Bronze medallist over 3000m at the 1989 European Athletics Indoor Championships in La Haye, behind German Dieter Baumann and Spaniard Abel Antón, he got his second podium the following year, in 1990 in Glasgow, beaten in the final by his compatriot Eric Dubus.

Josef Issels

Among his illustrious patients were Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley and British Olympic medallist Lillian Board, who both entered his Rottach-Egern clinic for treatment, who both died in spite of being treated by Issels.

Keble College Boat Club

Olympic gold medallist Ed Coode rowed for the college 1st VIII during his time at Keble in the late 1990s.

Kibet

Shedrack Kibet Korir (born 1978), Kenyan middle-distance runner and 2007 World Championships medallist

Laban Moiben

Raised in Eldama Ravine in Kenya's Rift Valley Province, he began running while studying at Timboroa High School (an institution also attended by Kenyan international medallist Daniel Kipchirchir Komen).

Linford Christie Stadium

Since 1993 it has been named after one of the club's most famous athletes, Olympic 100 metres gold medallist Linford Christie.

Lismore, Victoria

Notable people from Lismore include Gordon Bryant, a Labor politician and minister in the Whitlam government, Tony Street, a Liberal politician and minister in the Fraser government, Olympic Silver medallist Ji Wallace, and Simon Hussey, who was born in Lismore in 1960, and is a multi ARIA award winning producer and composer for Daryl Braithwaite and James Reyne.

Mekonnen

Hailu Mekonnen (born 1980), Ethiopian long-distance runner and two-time World Cross Country medallist

Mikhail Shultz

M. Shultz was a descendant of the German sculptor, the Danish royal medallist Anton Schultz (Anton Schultz — Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony, Hamburg, Denmark, XVII–XVIII cc.) who carried out orders the Russian Court as early as Copenhagen, and arrived at the service in Russia with Peter the Great.

MoneyForce

The ethos and branding is built around the concept of getting 'MoneyFit' with MoneyForce and the MoneyForce website is fronted by former Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes.

Myra Moller

Myra is the niece of Olympic marathon bronze medallist, Lorraine Moller, and the daughter of Teniinii and Gary Moller.

Netherlands at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

The team includes 2006 European champion Bram Som and two-time European Indoor medallist Gregory Sedoc.

Nico Delle Karth

He is the son of Werner Delle Karth, a world championship medallist in bobsleigh and a Winter Olympian.

Peter Rono

Born in Kamobo village, near Kapsabet, Rono won the gold medal at the Africa Cross Country Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985 and in 1986 he was the silver medallist in the 1500m at the World Junior Championships in Athens, Greece.

Raschau

Ortrun Enderlein (b. 1943), two-time Women’s World Champion and first women’s Olympic gold medallist in luge (1964).

Ricegrowers Limited

SunRice have recently named triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice as brand ambassador.

Ron Roddan

Speaking in a High Court libel hearing in 1998, Roddan told the jury that a magazine article by John McVicar alleging Linford Christie took drugs to get to the top was a "fairy story", describing a suggestion that the Olympic gold medallist's impressive physique may have been due to taking steroids or other performance-enhancing banned substances as "ridiculous".

South Africa at the 2011 All-Africa Games

In the swimming code Olympic gold medallist Roland Schoeman will be joined by 2012 Olympic Games medal hope Cameron van der Burgh who won two bronze medals at the recent FINA world championships in China.

Southern Cross University

Ben Newton, paralympic gold medallist and Order of Australia Medal awardee, graduated from SCU in 2010 with a Bachelor of Psychology with Honours (1st class).

St Catherine's College Boat Club

Notable people associated with the club include British Olympic gold medallists Matthew Pinsent and Andrew Triggs Hodge and silver medallist Colin Smith.

St Patrick's College, Belfast

The local sporting scene has many connections to St Patrick’s College, with students including Olympic medallist Paddy Barnes and champion boxer Ryan Burnett, both likely to be selected to fight for Ireland at the forthcoming London 2012 Olympic Games.

Stephen Perse Foundation

Participants have included: Doug Richard (Dragon’s Den entrepreneur), Bridget Kendall (BBC journalist), Stephanie Cook (Olympic gold medallist) and Wendy Tan White (founder of Moonfruit).

Tantsud tähtedega

The runner-ups were World Figure Skating silver medallist Anna Levandi and her partner Mairold Millert.

Tina Morgan

On 29 January 2009, Morgan married Turkish taekwondo competitor and Olympic silver medallist Bahri Tanrıkulu in Perth.

Tristan Loy

On the first of these occasions, his Group B winning time 13:14.92 was only beaten by one skater in Group A; and on the second occasion, his time was the sixth fastest at the event, faster than Olympic gold medallist Bob de Jong.

Wang Fengchun

Their record at the end of the season was 16-18, and included wins against former World Champion Rick Folk and 1998 Olympic silver medallist Mike Harris.

William Henry James Blakemore

William Henry James Blakemore * in 1871 in the West Midlands Birmingham, England is an English engraver, and medallist at the Royal Mint London.


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