Gold medal

January 2013 Gold Medal Heights   Introduction: a) The Olympic Games is an international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which athletes participate in different competitions. Since the Olympic Games began they have been the competition grounds for the world’s greatest athletes. First place obtaining gold; second silver and third bronze. The Olympic medals represent the hardship of what the competitors of the Olympics have done in order to obtain the medal. Olympic medals could be

My “Gold Basketball Medal” was selected to be in my portfolio since it demonstrates to employers my teamwork skills, as playing on a team teaches important teamwork skills which are transferable in the workplace, moreover playing on a winning team demonstrates my excellence in those skills. Teamwork skills are crucial in a team, since we have to communicate, advice, help, listen, and work together to reach the common goal of winning our games. Without having teamwork skills I and the team comprise

Heena Sidhu is an Indian shooter. She along with Annu Raj Singh won the gold medal in women's Pairs 10 metre air pistol at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[1] Heena (384) and Annu (375) won the 14th gold medal for India from the shooting range. She also won a silver medal in the singles event. Heena Sidhu | Medal record | Women's shooting | Commonwealth Games | Gold | 2010 Delhi | 10 metre air pistol(Pairs) | Silver | 2010 Delhi | 10 metre air pistol (Singles) | Asian Games | Silver |

Jesse Owens 1913-1980 American track and field athlete Few athletes have transcended their sports to become a symbol of an era as did Jesse Owens. Enduring a childhood marked by grinding poverty in Alabama, Owens became a star athlete in high school after his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. His achievements earned Owens several lucrative offers to attend college as a track-and-field athlete, and he enrolled at Ohio State University in 1933. On May 25, 1935, Owens made national headlines

record with fourteen championship medals. She is also the first African American gymnast that won an all- around world title. She is the third American women to be in an all-around national championship four times in a row. She is the shortest Olympic gymnast out of all 555 Olympic gymnasts. She is four feet nine inches. She only weighs 104 pounds. She is also has the record for most gold medals won by a female gymnast. She hold that record with ten gold medals. She has won every tournament she has

upcoming Beijing Olympics. Can design help swimmers finish faster? Following the 2004 Athens Olympics, officials at swimwear giant Speedo had good reason to celebrate: Athletes clad in their latest suits at the time, called Fastskin FSII, won 46 medals in the pool. Yet when the company 's in-house design team, Aqualab, gathered soon after the games at company headquarters in Nottingham, Britain, they were already focused on how to innovate the next generation. "We looked at all the suits and the

Hope Solo born Hope Amelia Solo in 1981 . She became the one of the top goalies in soccer. Hope Solo was an american USA soccer player. One of the best goalies in the Unites States. In 2008 she helped bring home the gold for the Olympics in Beijing and again in four years later in London. She had a near record performance to help the USA girl’s team to win FIFAWomen’s World Cup Solo went on to inspire girls and boys who looked up to her. She loved the game of soccer all through her childhood, career

Katsutoshi Nekoda was an olympic volleyball player. 1964 he and his team won the bronze medal held in Tokyo, Japan. To get third out of 111 teams all over the world is pretty amazing to me. Four years later, Nekoda helped his team win the silver medal for the Japanese Hiroshima men's national volleyball team. That's not all, a few years later he helped his team achieve their goal of winning a gold medal in 1972. Even though that’s not in the 1960 it is still a very important part of Katsutoshi

Heena Sidhu is an Indian shooter. She along with Annu Raj Singh won the gold medal in women's Pairs 10 metre air pistol at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[1] Heena (384) and Annu (375) won the 14th gold medal for India from the shooting range. She also won a silver medal in the singles event. Heena Sidhu | Medal record | Women's shooting | Commonwealth Games | Gold | 2010 Delhi | 10 metre air pistol(Pairs) | Silver | 2010 Delhi | 10 metre air pistol (Singles) | Asian Games | Silver | 2010 Guangzhou

individual will be identified, analyzed and evaluated in this thesis and composition. Body Paragraphs Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman was born February the 16th 1973, in Mackay Queensland. In addition, Cathy was the 1st Australian Aboriginal, to win Gold in an individual and single event at the 2000 Olympic Games. Therefore, Cathy