gold medalists
First place winners
Gold medalists are athletes or competitors who win first place in their events, typically at the Olympics or other major competitions.
The term derives from the gold medal awarded for victory: The gold medalists stood atop the podium.
By extension, gold medalist can describe anyone who excels at something: She's a gold medalist at procrastination.
- winnersThose who prevail
- OlympianElite international sports competitor
- championTop competitor, or advocate
- greatest of all timeSuperlative across all eras
- record holdersThose with best-ever marks
Jesse Owens · athlete · Michael Phelps · victory · victory lap · Usain Bolt · Olympic medalists · trailblazer · honor · competition · national pride · achievement · dream come true · podium · podium finish · ceremony · triumph · Olympic glory
- championschampions, titleholders, victors, world champions, Olympic champions
- sports storiesautobiography, biography, memoir, sports legends, sports memoirs
- fencersfencing masters, world champions, national champions
- skating contentOlympic champions, figure skaters, speed skaters, world champions, Hall of Fame
- swimming figuressynchronized swimmers, sprinters, record holders, world champions, national champions
- swimming historyOlympic swimming, competitive swimming, swim strokes, backstroke, breaststroke
gold medalistsalso-rans
Defeated contestants collectively
bronze medalists · cellar dwellers · tail-enders · silver medalists · runners-up
gold medalistsunknowns
Undetermined quantities
nobodies · amateurs · also-rans · journeymen
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