What is "medallist"

Usage examples of "medallist".

Richard had caused a new seal to be made for himself by Simon, a noted medallist, and he had probably thus disposed of the die as a dangerous possession.

Miss Lurida Vincent, gold medallist of her year at the Corinna Institute, was the leader of these advocates of virile womanhood.

A British, Commonwealth, and European gold medallist and holder of the world javelin record, Olympic gold had seemed like an inevitability for the darling of the back pages.

For Jools, at 21 a University College London graduate in economics and former National Bronze Medallist for rowing, this is the first time he has ever lived away from his south London home.

University of Thameside, Fellow of the Royal Society, Gold Medallist of the Geographical Association and the Sherlock Holmes of pre-history whose inspired investigations had unlocked the secrets of the past.

Bates, our Good Conduck Medallist, will now oblige by going down on his knees and kissing it.

He was medallist and painter both, worked with Gentile da Fabriano in the Ducal Palace at Venice and elsewhere, and his art seems to have an affinity with that of his companion.

Miss Lurida Vincent, gold medallist of her year at the Corinna Institute, was the leader of these advocates of virile womanhood.

She had gone from relay gold medallist to relay reject, and felt she might be an object of ridicule in the eyes of other athletes inside Olympic Park.

They had heard about Paul Faithful, in Toowoomba, who had coached one of Cathy's idols, Glynis Nunn, heptathlon gold medallist at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.

For the final sales pitch, Cathy was on the podium with Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Australian Olympic Council executive Kevan Gosper, Victorian Premier Joan Kirner, Moscow swimming gold medallist Michelle Ford and Atkinson.

He's named after that fine Namibian sprinter, Frankie Fredericks, Barcelona silver medallist in the 100m and 200m, and gold medallist over 200m at the worlds in Stuttgart in 1993.