He was to be the sire of the great Trakehner stallion Tempelhüter, and most modern Trakehners can be traced to these two stallions.

* Many times Arabians, Trakehners, and horses of Arabian descent are thought to have cow hocks.

While Trakehners compete in nearly all equestrian disciplines, they are particularly prized as dressage mounts, due to their sensitivity, intelligence and way of going.

Due to their very light build, Trakehners tend to do better in the sport of eventing than most other warmblood breeds.

There was also the Trakehner, Magister, though Trakehners were not used in Oldenburg to the same extent that they were in neighboring Hannover.

The development of the modern Brandenburger sport horse during the mid-20th century was achieved by utilizing Trakehners, Hanoveranians and English Thoroughbreds.

Therefore the horses were crossed with the Trakehners, Arabians, and draft horses threatening survival of pure breed Žemaitukas.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

Karpov won a gold medal for academic excellence in high school, and entered Moscow State University in 1968 to study mathematics.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

Adam Nelson has won silver medals in the shotput in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics to go along with his gold medal in the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.

Former heavyweight rower Dominic Seiterle is a member of the Canadian national rowing team and won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's 8 + event.

The Baudot apparatus was shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle ( 1878 ) and won him the Exposition's gold medal, as well as bringing his system to worldwide notice.

The event attracts amateur swimmers from all over the Canaries and Spain, and also swimming professionals such as David Meca and Maarten Van der Weijden, the paralympist Jesús Collado Alarcón who won gold medals for 100m backstroke and butterfly in Athens 2004, and Xavi Torres Ramis, the paralympic champion in Barcelona ' 92, Sydney and Atlanta.

The elegant Soviet jumper radically sped up his approach run, took the record up to, and won the Olympic gold medal in 1964, before a motorcycle accident ended his career.

At the 2008 Olympics, Vijender Singh Beniwal won a middleweight ( 75 kg ) bronze medal and Vikas Krishan Yadav boxer from Bhiwani district won a gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games in the Lightweight category.

Manoj Kumar of village Rajound, Kaithal district won a gold medal in light welterweight ctegory at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.

All 12 Olympic and 36 IIHF World Women's Championships medals have gone to one of these seven countries, and every gold medal in both competitions has been won by either Canada or the United States.

However, in the European Teams Championship in Batumi, Georgia, also in January, she won the gold medal playing Board 2, scoring 6½ – 2½.

While the Hungarians had the best won – 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.

He won the title in that distance at the 1924 Summer Olympics, beating Kahanamoku for the gold.

In all he won five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal, fifty-two United States National Championships, and set sixty-seven world records.

India won the gold medal and has also won gold at the following six Asian Games in Hiroshima in 1994, Bangkok in 1998, Busan in 2002, Doha in 2006 and Guangzhou in 2010.

India won the gold medal and has since won gold at the following three Asian Games in Hiroshima in 1994, Bangkok in 1998, Busan in 2002, and in Doha 2006.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

The tournament, of 393 players of which 167 were Grandmasters, was won by Russian Vladimir Potkin on tie-break, GM Radosław Wojtaszek won the silver, while Polgár placed third, winning the bronze.

At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Yeats ' painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the arts and culture segment of the Games.

In May 1914, Broz won a silver medal at an army fencing competition in Budapest.

India won gold and Thailand were runner up with silver.

In 1973, she won silver in the women's competition and another silver for Best pas de Deux ( with Frank Augustyn ) at the second International Ballet Competition in Moscow.

Billy Kidd, part Abenaki from Vermont, became the first American male to medal in alpine skiing in the Olympics, taking silver at age 20 in the slalom in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. Six years later at the 1970 World Championships, Kidd won the gold medal in the combined event and took the bronze medal in the slalom.

Nurmi set 22 official world records at distances between 1, 500 metres and 20 kilometres, and won a total of nine gold and three silver medals in his twelve events in the Olympic Games.

In 2010, Shadowrun – 20th Anniversary Edition won three silver Ennie Awards: Best Interior Art, Best Production Values and Best Game.

Canada won five medals, all silver and bronze, while defending World Champion Clas Thunberg stayed at home, protesting against this form of racing.

The one silver lining was Tony Gwynn's eighth and final National League batting title, won in the final days of the season after a down-to-the wire duel with the Colorado Rockies ' Larry Walker.

An Englishman named O. E Woodhouse won the singles title, and a silver cup worth $ 100, by defeating Canadian I. F.

After taking bronze in 1964 and silver in 1968, Japan finally won the gold for men's volleyball in 1972.

As Robert failed to appear in England to rally his supporters, William won the support of the English with silver and promises of better government, and defeated the rebellion, thus securing his authority.

UCLA student-athletes have won 214 Olympic medals – 106 gold, 54 silver and 54 bronze.

McKinley won more easily than in 1896, making inroads in the silver West.

At the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, he won two medals with a silver in the 10 km + 10 km combined pursuit ( stepping up when the original medalist Jari Isometsä was disqualified for hemohes use ), and a gold in the 50 km freestyle race.

She was not the only female skier to win two medals though, United States skier Gretchen Fraser won gold in the slalom and took silver behind Beiser in the combined.

Hasu's teammate Martti Huhtala took the silver and Sven Israelsson from Sweden won the bronze.