Below you will find example sentences with "won gold". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Won Gold in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: won
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 28.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "won gold" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a tiebreaker won gold on pommel, artist recently won gold as a, silver, team and bronze stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with gold medal, won seats, gold mining and won two, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with won gold
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
China won gold and Australia claimed bronze. (7 words)
Ronjan Sodhi won gold in 2010 while Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won silver in 2010. (14 words)
Matthew Brunt won gold in the discus, and Madi West gold in the shot putt. (15 words)
While the Hungarians had the best win–loss record of the tournament as a team and lost only a single game of the 56 they played, they had won most of their matches by 2½–1½ scores, while the Russian team won gold as they piled up the points. (49 words)
In the Under-8/9 category, Ace Mutelo from Karate Zen Katima Mulilo won gold in Kata, while Jemuel Descande from Karate Zen Rehoboth won gold in Kumite and silver in Kata and Carlos Andima from Karate Zen Khomasdal won silver in Kumite and bronze in Kata. (47 words)
After capturing gold in the 2006 Olympics in Turin, the Canadians failed to reach the podium in 2010 in Vancouver, then had to settle for bronze four years ago in Sochi after a semifinal loss to the U.S. The Americans won gold in both Games. (46 words)
Example sentences (20)
The men’s 4×100 relay team won gold, Rose Yeboah won gold in the women’s high jump while Deborah Acquah picked up a silver medal in the women’s long jump and Grace Obour won bronze in the women’s 400m.
In the Under-8/9 category, Ace Mutelo from Karate Zen Katima Mulilo won gold in Kata, while Jemuel Descande from Karate Zen Rehoboth won gold in Kumite and silver in Kata and Carlos Andima from Karate Zen Khomasdal won silver in Kumite and bronze in Kata.
Ryan Botha won two gold medals in his respective divisions, while PJ Brits won gold and silver.
Trakehners won gold and silver medals in two Olympics, including six Gold medals in Berlin in 1936, and won Czechoslovakia's notoriously challenging Velká pardubická steeplechase nine times.
Matthew Brunt won gold in the discus, and Madi West gold in the shot putt.
Team GB won gold in the equestrian team jumping earlier in the Games, and Ben Maher, Harry Charles and Scott Brash now go for individual gold in the jumping final.
The two celebrate together, very wholesome scenes in a changing of the guard type moment, Fachie won gold in London and silver in Rio, this is Ball’s first gold medal having finished second behind Fachie in Tokyo.
After capturing gold in the 2006 Olympics in Turin, the Canadians failed to reach the podium in 2010 in Vancouver, then had to settle for bronze four years ago in Sochi after a semifinal loss to the U.S. The Americans won gold in both Games.
China's Xiao Ruoteng, who lost gold in the all-around on a tiebreaker, won gold on pommel horse on a tiebreaker.
Francesco Friedrich's four-man German bobsled team won gold on Sunday with their victory at the Olympic Sliding Centre completing Germany's sweep of the bobsled gold medals.
In under-17 girls, Avantika Gupta won gold while in boys under-17, Chetan Raina clinched gold.
Kyron McMaster put the British Islands’ gold medal on the table in the Men’s 400m Hurdles while St. Lucia’s Levern Spencer won gold for her country in the women’s high jump.
Shalu Hari won gold in the veteran category Kata, and Rinki Goyal won a bronze medal in the veteran category Kata.
Team GB have won women’s hockey medals at each of the last three Olympics, with Belper’s Pearne-Webb part of the squad who won gold in Rio, when she scored the winning penalty in the shootout, and bronze in Tokyo.
Ronjan Sodhi won gold in 2010 while Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won silver in 2010.
While the Hungarians had the best win–loss record of the tournament as a team and lost only a single game of the 56 they played, they had won most of their matches by 2½–1½ scores, while the Russian team won gold as they piled up the points.
After starting skiing and boarding at Thredbo as a child, Bright won gold in the superpipe at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and silver in the halfpipe at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
A local martial artist recently won gold as a black belt during Alberta Taekwondo Open at MacEwan University in Edmonton this past weekend.
China won gold and Australia claimed bronze.
Competing in the minimum-weight category (48kg), two time world youth champion Nitu had won gold at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.