| In fact, he accepted a Congressional Medal of Honor from President Nixon, in a photo op staged to counter the antiwar protests. |
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| The mongrel, called Rip, was awarded a Dickin Medal in 1945 after sniffing out dozens of air raid victims during the blitz. |
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| Perhaps more incredibly, four other doughboys used Colts in Medal of Honor actions that same day, including three from the 30th Division. |
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| A great crowd attended the first of the annual parish novenas of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal services last night. |
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| The reverse of the Afghanistan Medal is based on a portion of a snow-capped mountain range with a multi-rayed sun rising behind the mountains. |
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| The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civil honor our nation can bestow and we award it today to 12 outstanding individuals. |
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| He will be presented with the Marsden Medal tonight for his 40-year contribution to Antarctic research, latterly focusing on climate change. |
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| The veterans were awarded an Active Service Medal, a decoration pinned to the chest of servicemen involved in conflict. |
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| The annual novena in honour of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal continues on Monday nights in St Patrick's Church at 8pm. |
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| He picks up a letter of citation about a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. |
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| Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., was one of 16 honorees receiving the Presidential National Medal of Science. |
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| He joined the Royal Signals in 1999 after passing out from Sandhurst as the year's top academic graduate, winning him the Queen's Medal. |
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| In 1851, George Hemshall received the Prince Albert Medal for weaving a seamless linen shirt. |
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| In 1976 he was awarded the Scott Medal for bravery after tackling two armed robbers following a raid on a post office. |
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| He was awarded the Crimean War Medal, three clasps and the Turkish Crimean War Medal. |
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| He did his BEd. and MA in Economics from AMU and topped the list of successful candidates in MA for which he was awarded University Medal. |
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| Brian's Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the VC, will go up for auction in London next September. |
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| Wilson has received numerous awards and honors, including the National Medal of Science. |
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| The Father Cullen Medal was presented to Patsy Toolan for recognition of long term service to the centre. |
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| The pensioner was honoured with the Distinguished Service Medal in 1943 from King George VI after his ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean. |
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| He saw active service in the Crimean War as paymaster on HMS Gladiator, being awarded the Crimean War Medal, clasp Sevastapol. |
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| The Medal of Honor recipient's photos and citations accompany each interview. |
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| He also is the artist for George Washington's Inaugural Centennial Medal, and was asked by Theodore Roosevelt to redesign the U.S. gold coinage. |
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| Before 1993 only officers received the Military Cross, other ranks receiving the Military Medal. |
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| He was the last to leave and was rightly awarded the British Empire Medal for his bravery. |
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| No less than 37 Hispanic Americans have received the Medal of Honor, America's highest military decoration. |
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| Her performance at university was outstanding and she was awarded a distinction and received the Sir William Young Gold Medal. |
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| Donovan had won a Medal of Honor during World War I as an infantry battalion commander. |
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| Recipients of the PDSA Dickin Medal, recognised as the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, were afforded full military honours. |
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| He was also awarded three Distinguished Flying Crosses, a Bronze Star and an Air Medal. |
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| His father was awarded the Medal of Honor in the first world war, in the marines. |
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| The President also nominated each of these brave women for the Congressional Medal of Honor. |
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| The May Medal is to be played on Saturday week with Lefties versus righties. |
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| As part of the bicentenary celebrations the Society is producing a facsimile of the Naval Gold Medal for Trafalgar, awarded posthumously to the hero of the Senior Service. |
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| Air Marshal Shepherd said that for his professional skill, heroism and airmanship, Squadron Leader Hall was awarded the Air Medal and the First Oak Leaf Cluster. |
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| He received a Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of the Wilderness despite subsequent controversial administration of the Elmira, New York, prison camp. |
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| Astoundingly, this would mean there are more men claiming to have won the Medal of Honor in Vietnam than actual recipients of the medal since the Civil War. |
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| The Medal of Honor has been awarded only 13 times in more than a decade of conflict while deserving recipients are passed over. |
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| That win reduced Johnson's handicap, which was trimmed yet further when she won the overall trophy in the Charity Medal Shield open to men, women and juniors. |
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| The 17-year-old polled five votes in the colts competition's fairest and best award, the Jack Clarke Medal, and was a member of East Fremantle's colts premiership team. |
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| Veterans like Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer are campaigning as well. |
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| Pits was also posthumously promoted to staff sergeant in 2000, becoming the first U.S. Air Force noncommissioned officer to attain Medal of Honor status. |
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| His other decorations included the Purple Heart and the Air Medal. |
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| And brill is a woman who was awarded the presidential National Medal of Technology and Innovation two years ago. |
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| He's a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, and a Companion of the Order of Australia, and in 1991 was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal. |
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| It was, I have to say, at the bottom of the hierarchy of royal honors, a British Empire Medal. |
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| Coincident with General Eisenhower's advancement to a permanent major generalcy, the Distinguished Service Medal has been awarded to him with the following citation. |
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| The Geological Society of London awarded him its highest honour, the Wollaston Medal, for his pioneering work in marine geology and sedimentology. |
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| Raymond is given a Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroics. |
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| Pitsenbarger, a pararescueman, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and promoted to staff sergeant for treating and protecting scores of wounded infantrymen. |
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| Since 1949, the Silver Medal is awarded to the leading amateur, provided that the player completes all 72 holes. |
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| Last year, he was awarded the Distinguished Research Prize and Medal by the Gastroenterological Society of Australia. |
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| Spungin also became the first sighted women to receive the Russian Medal from the Byelorussian Association of the Blind. |
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| With these words the OWA jury congratulated the Frey family on winning the OWA Silver Medal that is endowed with 2,500 Euro. |
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| Although the Croonian Lecture was created in 1701, it was first awarded in 1738, seven years after the Copley Medal. |
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| In 1853, it earned him the Royal Society's Royal Medal, and it made his reputation as a biologist. |
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| In 1773, the Royal Society recognised Priestley's achievements in natural philosophy by awarding him the Copley Medal. |
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| The Silver Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics is awarded by the University of New South Wales to commemorate the lecture. |
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| The following year he received the Albert Einstein Medal and an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford. |
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| In 1975, Stephen Hawking and Penrose were jointly awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. |
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| In 1989 he was awarded the Dirac Medal and Prize of the British Institute of Physics. |
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| In 1990 Penrose was awarded the Albert Einstein Medal for outstanding work related to the work of Albert Einstein by the Albert Einstein Society. |
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| In 2004 he was awarded the De Morgan Medal for his wide and original contributions to mathematical physics. |
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| In 1792, he won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode that he wrote on the slave trade. |
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| In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. |
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| The 1928 Gold Medal for Art at the Antwerp Olympics was won by Luxembourg's Jean Jacoby for his work Rugby. |
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| As a recipient of the Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Samaranch was laid in state in the Palau de la Generalitat. |
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| The Albert Goldthorpe Medal is an award voted for be members of the press who cast a vote after every game of the regular season. |
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| Canadian merchant seamen have won the Victoria Cross and the Medal of Honor. |
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| Following the lead of its member nations, NATO began to award a service medal, the NATO Medal, for these operations. |
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| In 1904 he was knighted, awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal, and made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society. |
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| Since 1976, the IEEE's Alexander Graham Bell Medal has been awarded to honor outstanding contributions in the field of telecommunications. |
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| Pinter's publisher, Stephen Page of Faber and Faber, accepted the Nobel Diploma and Nobel Medal at the Awards Ceremony in his place. |
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| Gaiman's 2009 Newbery Medal winning book The Graveyard Book will be made into a movie, with Ron Howard as the director. |
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| Another portion went to the Royal Academy of Arts, which occasionally awards students the Turner Medal. |
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| In April 1956, Childe was awarded the Gold Medal of the Society of Antiquaries for his services to archaeology. |
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| Also in 2016, the head of the Centre for Glaciology, Professor Bryn Hubbard, was awarded the Polar Medal. |
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| Aged 12 he won the Gold Medal for Painting at the Wales National Eisteddfod. |
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| He graduated in 1989, winning both the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Award and the Gold Medal. |
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| Millelire became the first recipient of the Gold Medal of Military Valor of the Italian Armed Forces. |
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| Reis Leming, a US airman, was awarded the George Medal for his bravery in rescuing 27 people in the South Beach area of Hunstanton. |
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| The United States military issues the Antarctica Service Medal to military members or civilians who serve in Antarctica. |
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| When Russell Freedman won the Newbery Medal for his photobiography of Abraham Lincoln in 1988, he rewarded himself with a trip to China. |
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| The posthumous Medal of Honor was given to the family of the soldier who died in battle. |
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| This scale was included in the paper for which he was awarded the Copley Medal. |
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| On 13 September 2010, Blair was awarded the Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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| In 2000, Senator Chafee was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. |
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| Medal winners include Nelson Mandela, Sir Frank Whittle, and Professor Stephen Hawking. |
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| Despite his wounds, Hemingway assisted Italian soldiers to safety, for which he received the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery. |
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| In 2012, the University of Sussex presented McEwan with its 50th Anniversary Gold Medal in recognition of his contributions to literature. |
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| And Ralph Lauren received the James Smithson bicentennial Medal. |
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| While two Air Commodores, seven Group Captains, five Wing Commanders have also been conferred Vayu Sena Medal for devotion to duty. |
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| He won the George Medal for his work as a frogman specialising in removing German limpet mines from merchant ships. |
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| Among his many awards was AFA's john Aston Warder Medal and SAF's Sir William Schlich Memorial Award. |
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| The Gold Medal honors an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. |
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| He was awarded Vayu Sena Medal in 1983, Vishisht Seva Medal in 1996 and Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 2007 for distinguished service of high order. |
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| The European Environmental Press awarded its 2003 Bronze Medal for Interline Resources Corp. |
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| The high proof spirit was also awarded a Gold Medal from the Beverage Testing Institute in 2014, which the house's XO won that year as well. |
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| Considered one of America's greatest collagists, Bearden was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1987 by then President Reagan. |
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| Other tenants include Gold Medal International, Sociometric Institute, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and PRD Realty. |
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| Author of more than 40 books, her children's novel Goggle-Eyes won her The Guardian Children's Fiction prize and the coveted Carnegie Medal. |
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| This includes Param Vishist Seva Medal for six Air Marshals, Ati Vishist Seva Medal for one Air Marshal, five Air Vice Marshal and six Air Commodores. |
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| Fleming her son's posthumous Medal of Honor, and the following September the Navy commissioned a destroyer escort named in the deceased pilot's honor. |
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| The airport gumshoes tried to confiscate his Medal of Honor. |
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| The Record Shatterers and Heavy Medal interactive recognizes those athletes who have excelled at their sport, and, as a result, have taken home the most Olympic medals. |
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| In 1855, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1871 awarded the Founder's Gold Medal of the Royal Geological Society. |
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| Sloat were each awarded the Medal of Honor for valor in Vietnam. |
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| He won the Distinguished Flying Medal after shooting down five German fighters over Norway and took part in the attack which sank the huge battleship Tirpitz. |
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| In 2011, Charles received the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Medal for his engagement with the environment, such as the conservation of rainforests. |
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| In 2000 Rattle was presented with the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and in May 2006 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Arts. |
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| This year's Carnegie Medal was awarded to Tanya Landman for her powerful novel Buffalo Soldier about the first African-American woman to enlist in the US military. |
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| The Confederacy awarded him posthumously the Confederate Medal of Honor and the medal was finally minted and presented in 1977 by The Sons of Confederate Veterans. |
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| Nobel's portrait also appears on the obverse of the Nobel Peace Prize medal and the Medal for the Prize in Economics, but with a slightly different design. |
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| In 1904 Swan was knighted by King Edward VII, awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal, and was made an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society. |
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| As a result of the Kosovo War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation created a second NATO medal, the NATO Medal for Kosovo Service, an international military decoration. |
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| In August 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman, as well as the first Iranian, to receive the Fields Medal, the highest prize in mathematics. |
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| A's Royal Gold Medal for his lifetime's service to architecture. |
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| Sir Steve Redgrave is the only British Olympian to win a Gold Medal in five consecutive Olympic Games, winning his first in 1984 Los Angeles and last in 2000 Sydney. |
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| For the 2003 season, V8 Supercars introduced a medal in honour of Sheene, the Barry Sheene Medal, for the 'best and fairest' driver of the season. |
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| Following this successful season in CART, Mansell received several awards, including a Gold Medal from the Royal Automobile Club and the 1993 ESPY Award for Best Driver. |
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| The Ryle Memorial Medal is currently awarded to the Open Champion if he is a member of the PGA but in 1925 it was awarded to the leading member in the Open. |
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| Hubert Reeves, astrophysicist, awarded the Albert Einstein Medal. |
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| He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753, and in 1759 won the Copley Medal for his research into the mechanics of waterwheels and windmills. |
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| This will mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War in which two Newfies, Corporals Le Moine and Pelley, earned a Military Medal with the Regiment. |
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| The Braid Taylor Memorial Medal and the Tooting Bec Cup are restricted to members born in, or with a parent or parents born in, the UK or Republic of Ireland. |
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| They participated at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, defeating Afghanistan to claim their Gold Medal in the first ever cricket tournament held in the Asian Games. |
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| Following his death, a memorial fund led to the founding of the Lister Medal, seen as the most prestigious prize that could be awarded to a surgeon. |
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| In 1975, he was awarded both the Eddington Medal and the Pius XI Gold Medal, and in 1976 the Dannie Heineman Prize, the Maxwell Prize and the Hughes Medal. |
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| Klasse of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Golden Medal of Honour in Vienna, the Austrian Cross of Honour First Class, the Shakespeare Prize and the Puccini Award. |
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| The Medal awarded to Mabel Capper records the first instance of forcible feeding of hunger striking Suffragette prisoners in England at Winson Green Prison in Birmingham. |
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| He was awarded the Royal Society of Arts' Albert Medal that year. |
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| Landel, a polymer physical chemist and rheologist, retired from CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will receive the Rubber Division's Charles Goodyear Medal. |
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| Ati Vishisht Seva Medal was given to 15 Army personnel including Retd. |
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| Most notably the mint has made OBE medals as well as many military honours including the Defence Medal and the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for the British Armed Forces. |
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| Mongolia also has gold medal dreams in Gundegmaa Otryad, who is ranked number one in the world in the women's 10m air pistol and the 25m pistol. |
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| The four medal winners will qualify along with the winner and runner-up from a further two events. |
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| On Sunday, the Canadian men's Olympic hockey team finally reclaimed their gold medal. |
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| But if he wants a gold medal, he will have to find a way of beating the French. |
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| You can access nearly 100 downloadable images of his buildings and, amusingly, front and back views of the Pritzker medal. |
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| So, yeah, what I mean is that I don't care how I perform but I want that medal round my neck. |
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| Her Olympic silver medal came in Los Angeles in 1984 as a member of the Canadian 4x400-metre relay team. |
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| Now earlier the reigning World Cup soccer champion Germany defeated Sweden 1-to take the bronze medal. |
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| A good performance from Andy Bennett earned him a bronze medal in the men's lightweight kyu grade section. |
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| The five-times gold medal winner also waived a five-figure fee for appearing at the race along the River Dee. |
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| The medal round will start this month with 32 qualifiers playing in a match round, with the finals to be played of 18 holes in October. |
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| Beaver County native Lauryn Williams is in the running for that, along with an olive wreath and a gold medal, when she begins competing today. |
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| Whether it is for himself or for his country, he would dearly love a Commonwealth Games medal. |
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| Local firefighters were acknowledged for their long service at a special NSW Fire Brigades medal presentation in Lismore last Saturday. |
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| She was as classy as they come in the face of misfortune, so was he when he got jobbed out of a second medal. |
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| She was presented with a giant cup and gold medal at the end-of-season presentation at the weekend. |
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| But in the end, once I got to the start line and realised all the people really wanted me to get a medal, it lifted me. |
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| At the 2000 Games, she won the silver medal for her adoptive country in the first women's Olympic pole vault. |
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| For the athlete, if he's lucky, it's a medal, world recognition, splashy endorsement deals, the adoration of millions of compatriots, whatever. |
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| He went to the Olympic Games as the world number one intending only to return with the gold medal, but it was not to be. |
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| He also presented a medal to referee Tim O'Byrne who did a great job in refereeing the final. |
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| Her third medal was a bronze in the keirin to go with her gold from the sprint and bronze from the 500 metres time-trial. |
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| Nothstein, clearly the most dominant men's sprinter on the track, missed a second medal in the Keirin, finishing fifth. |
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| Nick Dempsey has one race left in the Mistral windsurfers and is in fourth place, 12 points from the bronze medal. |
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| When she mounted the podium to accept her latest gold medal, she was crowned with a laurel wreath as the tournament committee adopted an Athens-style celebratory theme. |
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| We journos reckon the scones and jam deserved a prize medal. |
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| When Nancy Pelosi was speaker, the gold medal was authorized for golfer Arnold Palmer and conferred by Boehner. |
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| There is no name on the medal but it has Greek goddess of victory Nike holding a laurel wreath over Phoenix rising from the flames with the Acropolis in the background. |
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| But, as Marie laughingly revealed to us, the medal is a fake. |
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| The United States will be red-hot favourites to successfully defend their gold medal in Athens as they call on a who's who of the best in the game. |
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| The IA campaign sees a selected number of athletes from 12 sports, excluding wushu, prepare intensively to enhance Indonesia's medal chances at the 2006 Asian Games. |
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| The gold medal is the highest honor Congress bestows, and both houses must pass the authorizing legislation. |
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| Just a few months ago, she was in top condition at Sochi, winning a bronze medal in the first ever Paralympic snowboarding event. |
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| First gold medal of the Olympics won by U.S. in the Sliding Down Hill Behind the Dorm on cafeteria Tray event. |
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| Last year she finished in fifth place but will be looking to improve on that and possibly challenge for a medal in what will be one of the toughest events in the regatta. |
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| Robles is the top-ranked weightlifter in the country, but is a dark horse for medal contention. |
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| So when Nikos Kaklamanakis, who won a gold medal for windsurfing at Sydney four years ago, walked out there were more than one or two puzzled expressions. |
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| A hamstring injury wrecked his bid for a medal at this season's world championships in Canada, but he's now looking forward to going for gold in Manchester. |
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| Since its re-entry into the Olympic movement in 1979, it has regularly found itself near the top of the medal table, as befits a country populated by 1.3 billion. |
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| In 2005, Congress passed the Stolen Valor Act, a law making it illegal to lie about receiving a military medal or decoration. |
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| She went to Canada, won a gold medal and her old spot on the U.S. biathlon team. |
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| Hard to say if the banishment will make any impact on the outcome on the medal stand. |
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| When she led Britain's women curlers to gold medal victory at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, her place in the Scottish sports hall of fame was guaranteed. |
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| But I feel that were I to accept the award, it would ultimately debase the coinage of the medal. |
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| When the Scottish women curlers won a Winter Olympics gold medal in 2002, there were ridiculous prophecies that the popularity of curling would grow. |
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| She received a silver cup and sash as well as a gold world medal which secures her place for next year's world championships to be held in Killarney. |
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| Sedov, vice-president of the International Astronautic Federation gave Kozyrev the medal. |
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| He did not seem to think that he at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies. |
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| And if you want to give me a really fine present, work hard in your own bowmanship classes so you can take a first-class medal as Pete did today. |
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| I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal. |
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| In women's boxing, Nicola Adams became the world's first woman to win an Olympic boxing Gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. |
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| Britain has participated in every modern Olympic Games to date and is third in the medal count. |
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| A medal was struck and a triumphal column erected at Boulogne to celebrate the invasion's anticipated success. |
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| The most notable of which is Steve Parry who claimed a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the 200m butterfly. |
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| He received a medal from the Royal Society for his memoir of 1844, On A General Method of Analysis. |
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| Pakistan's Olympics medal tally stands at ten, of which eight were earned in field hockey. |
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| As of 2016, Pakistan's Commonwealth Games and Asian Games medal tallies stand at 69 and 165, respectively. |
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| It received the most journalistic attention at the fair and was awarded the bronze medal. |
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| They continued to correspond, and when Hammoneau had a son, Kipling insisted on returning the book and medal. |
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| In 1908, Australia defeated Great Britain, claiming the gold medal, the score being 32 points to three. |
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| The Great Britain team does much better in the medal table at the Summer Paralympics than at the Summer Olympics. |
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| The stadium hosted the Gold medal matches at the 2012 Olympic Games football tournament. |
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| It took Germany 28 years to participate at the Olympics again in 2016, this time reaching the final and winning a silver medal. |
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| Cricket was also included as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Games, where Great Britain defeated France to win the gold medal. |
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| During the 2006 Winter Olympics, only one athlete failed a drug test and had a medal revoked. |
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| According to Kenya, he was no longer a Kenyan citizen, jeopardising his silver medal. |
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| At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the gold, silver, and bronze medal winners were also given olive wreaths. |
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| The IOC does not keep statistics of medals won, but National Olympic Committees and the media record medal statistics as a measure of success. |
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| The only country to have won at least one gold medal at every Summer Olympic Games is Great Britain. |
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| Pyrros Dimas, winning a bronze medal, became the most decorated weightlifter of all time with 3 golds and 1 bronze in Olympic Games. |
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| She also was the only American woman to win an athletics gold medal during the 1948 Olympics. |
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| Harry Llewellyn and Foxhunter, who would claim a gold medal in Helsinki, won bronze in the team jumping event. |
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| Edoardo Mangiarotti won three medals, two silver and a bronze, having previously won a gold medal in the 1936 Games. |
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| The tournament was ultimately won by India, who defeated Great Britain to claim the country's first gold medal as an independent nation. |
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| During the Games, Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, winning his 22nd medal. |
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| The final medal tally was led by the United States, followed by China and host Great Britain. |
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| A new orchestration of the film's theme tune was played during each medal presentation of the Games. |
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| Nadzeya Ostapchuk was the first athlete to be stripped of a medal, when she tested positive for metenolone. |
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| If confirmed, Kazakhstan would drop from 12th to 23rd in the 2012 medal standings. |
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| On 30 December 2016, it was announced that Rose had been awarded an MBE for services to golf following his Olympic gold medal. |
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| In 1872, after Young Tom Morris won again for a fourth time in a row, he was awarded a medal. |
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| He was Britain's sole representative in boxing at the Athens Games, winning a silver medal at the age of 17 in the lightweight boxing category. |
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| She also became the first openly LGBT person to win an Olympic boxing Gold medal, after her win at the 2012 Summer Olympics. |
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| She went on to defeat Chinese boxer and world number one Ren Cancan in the final to claim the first Olympic women's boxing Gold medal in history. |
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| A Literature Nobel Prize laureate earns a gold medal, a diploma bearing a citation, and a sum of money. |
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| In 2006, Moss was awarded the FIA gold medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to motorsport. |
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| He won the gold medal in the Men's Laser class at the 2008 Summer Olympics. |
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| Both his gold medal winning Laser and Finn dinghies are currently displayed at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. |
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| His gold medal at the 2012 Olympics was presented by two Royal former Olympians, Princess Anne and King Constantine of Greece. |
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| Gordon Brown pointed to the 2012 medal count for Great Britain, saying that it showed the success of a union that included the two nations. |
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| Great Britain won its first fencing medal, a silver, in 1908 at the London Games. |
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| Volleyball team won a gold medal in Olympic 1976 Montreal and two gold medals in FIVB World Championship 1974, 2014 and hosted. |
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| Bermuda has had one Olympic medallist, Clarence Hill, who won a bronze medal in boxing. |
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| The image on the reverse of a medal varies according to the institution awarding the prize. |
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| A gold medal that is officially added to France's total is given to Luxembourg. |
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| In addition, some sources include the 1906 Intercalated Games when compiling their medal tables. |
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| The table below shows sourced combinations of these teams, when applied to the updated medal totals from the main table. |
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| At the competition, Ireland won its first medal at the European SC Championships ever, a silver in the 200m breaststroke by Andrew Bree. |
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| Department of Defense considers military operations against ISIL as being under Operation Enduring Freedom in regards to campaign medal awarding. |
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| On the continent level, Indonesia won the bronze medal once in football in the 1958 Asian Games. |
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| The Flight of Souls Window by Louis Comfort Tiffany won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition. |
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| The furniture of de Feure at the Bing pavilion won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition. |
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| France won the first gold medal, then Australasia, with the last two being won by the United States. |
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| Sandra Schmirler led her team to the first ever gold medal in women's curling in the 1998 Winter Olympics. |
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| England finished top of the medal table for the first time since the 1986 Commonwealth Games, also held in Scotland. |
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| Kiribati also won its first ever medal at a Commonwealth Games, a gold in the 105 kg men's weightlifting competition. |
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| A total of 18 sports and 261 medal events were contested at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. |
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| No bronze medal was awarded in the men's synchronized 10 metre platform as only four teams competed in the event. |
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| The top prize at the Olympic Games and many other sports competitions is the gold medal. |
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| Winners of athletic events and other graded competitions are usually awarded a gold medal. |
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| His 1890 canvas, Funeral At Sea won a medal of the third class at the 1891 Paris Salon. |
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| Following a silver medal in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, he won the 110m hurdles silver at the 1988 Olympic Games behind Roger Kingdom. |
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| Representing Wales at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Winstone won the gold medal at bantamweight. |
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| Each of the men on the trip was awarded a medal by Canada's sovereign, King George VI, in recognition of this notable feat of Arctic navigation. |
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| On March 28 Andreani received a standing ovation at La Scala, and later a medal from Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor. |
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| He won the silver medal in the 25 kilometre open water at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome. |
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| The winner of the Final is awarded a gold medal and declared Danish Individual Champion. |
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| At the Winter Olympic Games, Romania has won only a bronze medal in bobsleigh at the 1968 Winter Olympics. |
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| The team received a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games and a 3rd place at the 2010 European Men's Handball Championship. |
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| Their best ever performance was in the 1896 Summer Olympics, when Greece finished second in the medal table with 10 gold medals. |
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| The Thailand national basketball team had its most successful year at the 1966 Asian Games where it won the silver medal. |
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| Mauritius won its first Olympic medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing when boxer Bruno Julie won the bronze medal. |
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| The Philippines has participated in the Summer Olympic Games since 1924 and was the first country in Southeast Asia to compete and win a medal. |
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| Hasely Crawford won the first Olympic gold medal for Trinidad and Tobago in the men's 100 metre dash in the 1976 Summer Olympics. |
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| Botswana won the country's first Olympic medal in 2012 when runner Nijel Amos won silver in the 800 metres. |
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| In 2011, Amantle Montsho became world champion in the 400 metres and won Botswana's first athletics medal on the world level. |
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| Pierre Didot was awarded a gold medal at the exhibition of 1798, for his edition of Virgil. |
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| Edwin Landseer who at the age of 10 was awarded a silver medal for his drawing of a dog. |
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| The mill employed 2,000 women at its peak and was awarded a gold medal for its produce at the 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle. |
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| At the 1904 Olympics, Hussey was part of the American team which won the bronze medal. |
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| Those trying for a Bronze medal must camp at one of the manned tors on their route, while Silver and Gold teams may camp anywhere on the moor. |
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| Teams must arrive back at Anthony Stile by 1700 on the Sunday, having visited all ten tors on their route in order, to qualify for a medal. |
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| The medal screwpost is placed through the uniform and retained by a circular screwback plate. |
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| His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person. |
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| Given the testosteronal fug surrounding these two, it can be hard to sort out who gets the gold medal for compassion and commitment. |
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| She was drafted by the Orlando Wahoos during her senior season but declined the offer to pursue her dreams of earning an Olympic gold medal. |
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| The medal is one of more than 250 awards that have been bestowed upon him. |
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| But a team that wins the wild card is like the boxer who wins the bronze medal in the Olympics. |
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| Earlier, Nanjappa finished second in men's 10m Air Pistol to give India their third medal. |
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| I don't suppose they'll identify him but if they do he should get a medal not a spell in jankers. |
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| In the 10-km racewalking competition, athlete Oroba al-Amo won the gold medal, whereas Rania Osman won the silver medal. |
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| In 2003 she won a gold medal in the Kick-boxing World Championships in Denmark. |
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| The 18-year-old claimed the silver medal on the beam along with bronze on the asymmetric bars and floor exercise. |
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| Lee Wright captured the overall title and finished in gold medal position on the beam and silver on asymmetric bars and floor. |
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| Daley proved his critics wrong by winning a medal in London. |
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| Dan and Marc, sons of three-time Paralympian Terry, both left London without a medal after being knocked out of the repechage. |
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| Snowboarder Maelle Ricker secured Canada's second Olympic gold medal as she cruised to victory in the snowboard cross at Cypress Mountain. |
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| Marin French takes great pride in the gold medal its Rouge et Noir Triple Creme Brie won at the 2005 World Cheese Awards in London. |
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| London itself was slowly moulding the biggest gold medal of all for its own bestowment. |
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| The Romanians won the team gold medal and three of the four event finals. |
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| The medal, presented by to Lance Corporal Collins by King George V at Buckingham Palace, will go under the hammer at Spink in London next Thursday. |
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| World champion Becky James was second in the women's Keirin, claiming Britain's second medal of the day, as the hosts finished with four gold medals and eight in all. |
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| The club's podium rush also included a bronze medal double for Luke and Thomas's dad Wesley in the kata and kumite and silver for Kai Singh in the 9-10 years kumite. |
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| Shortly after having won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the Chinese Race Walking team in 1992, Chen moved from the People's Republic of China to the United States. |
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| Last night there was more Irish Olympic heartache after another medal hope, racewalker Rob Heffernan, finished a disappointing ninth in the men's 20km event. |
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| But they were caught by a group led by eventual gold medal winner Ferrand Prevot of France and the Yorkshirewoman had to settle for seventh place. |
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| National Champion, won the women's figure skating gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France, and her second consecutive World Championship. |
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| The London Games gold medal winner from Flint joined BBC Wales weatherman Derek Brockaway to give Get Reading, Get Better, Get Libraries a push at Rhyl Library. |
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| He was awarded a number of medals including the gold and silver medals from the Humane Society for the Hundred of Salford, and the Royal Humane Society's bronze medal. |
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| It won the gold medal in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. |
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| Some soldiers had asked for the reinstitution of the famous Iron Cross, a medal that dates from the Napoleonic era but was given generously by Hitler with a swastika added. |
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| In 1984 he received the Freedom medal from the Roosevelt Study Center. |
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| He also won a silver medal for his Latin verses on John Milton, gave the annual Latin oration in 1738, and was noted as having been the favourite student of his masters. |
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| Brathwaite also earned Barbados its first ever medal at the world championships in Berlin, Germany on 20 August 2009, when he won the men's 110 meter hurdles title. |
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| He won a bronze medal for triple jump during the 1992 Summer Olympics. |
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