gold medals
First-place Olympic prizes
Gold medals are the awards given to first-place finishers in athletic competitions, especially the Olympics.
The medal itself is gold-colored metal, though Olympic gold medals are mostly silver with gold plating.
Winning gold has become synonymous with victory: She took home three gold medals in swimming.
To gold medal is to win one: He gold-medaled in the 100-meter dash.
- OlympicsGlobal athletic contest
- world recordsDocumented supreme human achievements
- personal bestOne's top performance
- podiumRaised platform for speakers
- championTop competitor, or advocate
first place · athletics · victory · Usain Bolt · ceremony · standing ovation · Michael Phelps · sportsmanship · athletic achievements · competition · glory · winning · numismatics · Victoria Cross · triumph · ribbon · standing · earned
- sports historyOlympic history, Olympic records, Olympics, Olympic Games, Olympic training
- gold objects
- trophy casestrophies, medals, ribbons, plaques, cups
- sports metricstime trial, lap time, split time, finish time, personal best
- medals eventsOlympic medals, silver medals, bronze medals
- honorsaward, trophy, certificate, prize, ribbon
gold medalsdead last
Finishing behind all others
last place · bronze medals · wooden spoon · silver medals · also-rans
gold medalsdefeats
Overcomes or bests
losses · disqualifications · failures · DNFs · eliminations
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