Bennett, a train driver born in Shapwick, was Great Britain's first track and field gold medal winner.
It's a much smaller group but all three of the track and field gold medallists were state school-educated.
The day's first track and field gold medal went to Ethiopia's Meseret Defar, who bested Kenya's Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot by less than half a second to win the women's 5, 000-meter race.
ATHENS, Greece -- Sweden won three gold medals in track and field events in 24 hours as Stefan Holm took the gold in the high jump and Christian Olsson triumphed in the triple jump.
Tony Gwynn, meanwhile: a five-time batting champion, had a batting average - career batting average of, I think, 338, five gold gloves and right field for the San Diego Padres.
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All got high scores on the Psychopathy Checklist, the "gold standard" in the field, which assesses traits like lack of remorse, callousness and grandiosity.
Foxchapel King was well down the field when Irish Gold Cup hope Beef Or Salmon won the Ericsson Chase last month but put in an brave display here, giving away 23lb to the winner.
President Barack Obama's former constituency has put the finishing touches on a 560-page book that the grandson of Jesse Owens -- the first African-American to win four Olympic gold medals in track and field -- will hand deliver to the International Olympics Committee in Switzerland.
But he adds that a breakthrough in this field would clearly be gold-medal material.
Prominent marathon runners include 28-year-old Ito Makiko, champion at the 1997 Tokyo women's international, and Suzuki Hiromi, 29, who took a gold at the world track and field championships last year.
From 1928 through 1980, India won 11 consecutive Olympic medals in field hockey, including eight gold medals.
Her lifetime ambition is to follow in the footsteps of the North African nation's legendary middle-distance track and field athletes and win Olympic gold.
The U.S. track team, which has been struggling to improve its track-and-field fortunes, grabbed its second gold of the games as Jennifer Suhr won the women's pole vaulting competition. (Cuba's Yarisley Silva got silver.) Overall, it was the U.S.'s 29th gold, two short of China for the lead.
The Netherlands defeated world champion Argentina 2-0 to earn gold in Friday night's women's field hockey final, shortly after Great Britain topped New Zealand 3-1 to earn the bronze.
Preparations were made for the supply of armies in the field, and the Reichsbank started buying and hoarding gold without regard to cost.
Banish from your minds the notion, for instance, that when an Australian sports team takes to the field the entire nation watches spellbound wearing green and gold shell-suits.
Suhr's pole-vaulting win was the second gold medal the U.S. track-and-field team has secured during three full days of athletics competitions, following Sanya Richards-Ross winning the women's 400-meter race on Sunday night.
"The information we have is that the electron microscope testing is not the gold standard, so to speak, of testing in this field, " Muia said during a motions hearing Tuesday in state Supreme Court.
Phillips then showed why he's a three-time Gold Glove winner in the fifth, making a long run into center field for a basket catch with his back to the plate.
It was marvellous to see David Gale win his first gold medal in a major championship in the F51 discus while Beverley Jones, who won Great Britain's first gold in the shot, should continue to develop her talents in the field and also on the track.
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