medalist

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Meanwhile Team GB's four-time Olympic medalist Elinor Barker almost quit cycling because she was in too much pain to even sit on a bike.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

The challenge to do better now falls to Colón’s successor, Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, a 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the 100-meter hurdles.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

When Stolz trained with former American gold medalist Shani Davis as a teenager, the mass start didn’t even exist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

It had been even longer since the U.S. produced an individual gold medalist at the Games.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

During that ceremony, silver medalist Larisa Iordache of Romania stood on one side of me, and Kyla Ross, who’d won bronze, was on the other.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles