Iranian athletes awarded four medals in Asian Beach Games

Edit Press TV 26 Sep 2016
Muay Thai boxer Masoud Minaei defeated Truong Quoc Hung from the host nation 10-9 in the final bout of men’s light middleweight 67-71 kilogram category, and won the gold medal... Iranian athletes have taken their tally to six medals at the fifth edition of Asian Beach Games, ranks sixth in the ongoing event. ....

Team USA Sweeps Pan American Team Competitions; Kamal Earns Individual Gold (United States Squash)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Sep 2016
The two team gold medals contribute to a total of four medals, including Mariam Kamal and Haley Mendez's women's individual gold and silver respectively ... Team USA claimed two medals in the individual competitions in an all-American final between Mariam Kamal and Haley Mendez ... In the final it was Kamal who came out on top, consigning Mendez to a silver medal 11-7, 11-5, 12-10 ... a 2-1 victory over the two seeds and gold medals....

Congressional Gold Medals Awarded Today in Lorain to Four Local Korean War Veterans (Marcy Kaptur)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Sep 2016
LORAIN, OH - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9), along with representatives of the Smithsonian Museum, the Ohio Commission on Hispanic and Latino Affairs, the Lorain Historical Society and the Lorain Arts Council, will present the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian award, to Miquel Berlingeri, Carlos Montes, Julio Santiago-Montanez, and Francisco Colon, four members of the U.S....

Congressional Gold Medals Awarded on Monday in Lorain to Four Local Korean War Veterans (Marcy Kaptur)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Sep 2016
LORAIN, OH - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9), along with representatives of the Smithsonian Museum, the Ohio Commission on Hispanic and Latino Affairs, the Lorain Historical Society and the Lorain Arts Council, will present the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian award, to Miquel Berlingeri, Carlos Montes, Julio Santiago-Montanez, and Francisco Colon, four members of the U.S....

A grand night for Jordan’s ju-jitsu sisters (OCA - Olympic Council of Asia)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Sep 2016
They both won the gold medal in their respective categories at the 5th Asian Beach Games in Danang, Vietnam, on Monday evening, increasing the feel-good factor in the Jordanian sports camp following the Kingdom's historic first gold medal in the Olympic Games, in men's taekwondo, at Rio 2016 ... 'It's great to be here with the team,' said Lama, who won the Ju-Jitsu World Championship gold medal in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2015....

Syrian swim hero Saleh takes ABG medal tally to eight (OCA - Olympic Council of Asia)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Sep 2016
Syrian swim hero Saleh takes ABG medal tally to eight ... A tough training programme and even stronger mental approach has enabled Syrian swimmer Saleh Mohammad to maintain his place on the medals podium throughout the history of the Asian Beach Games ... His most recent achievements were here in Danang, where he followed up his bronze medal in the men's 10km race with a silver in the 5km event on Sunday....

Khalifa Nassrati Al Baloushi, 17, takes jiu-jitsu bronze at Beach Games

Edit The National 26 Sep 2016
The schoolboy from Al Ain born with a congenital birth defect that left him with stumped fingers on his left hand did well to claim a medal on his first appearance at a major competition ... reach the medal round in the Gi competition....

Reaching for the stars - GB women's wheelchair basketball team (GBWBA - Great Britain Wheelchair Basketball Association)

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Reaching for the stars - should it be defined with a medal?. Should a medal define a successful Paralympics? The GB women's wheelchair basketball team entered this Games with high hopes and they left without achieving a medal. However, during the Games they made the world sit-up and take notice, they firmly placed the GB women's team as a medal contender in the 2020 Games and they won hearts....

Team GB Exclusive: McKenna’s Fridge Kids upbeat with 500 days to go until PyeongChang Winter Olympics (The British Olympic Association)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Sep 2016
The British Olympic Association) Lesley McKenna wants her Fridge Kids to keep pushing the boundaries and forget about medals in the countdown to the Winter Olympics ... Snowboarder Jennie Jones's slopestyle bronze in Sochi, a first British Winter Olympic medal on snow, broke new boundaries and established new expectations ... 'The only way we can increase our chance of wining a medal is to have more athletes there....

Medals Decided in Trios and Teams Event Begins (Tenpin Bowling Australia Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Sep 2016
The men from Hong Kong and the Japanese women, who were second after the first block on long oil, leaped one spot in the second block on medium oil to earn the gold medal in trios in the Target 24th Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships Saturday at SCAA bowling center in Hong Kong, China ... Haruna Nojima, Mirai Ishimoto and Shion Izumune winning Japan's first gold medal ... The top three teams will be awarded the medals....

India wins a silver in Asian Beach Games

Edit The Times of India 26 Sep 2016
India added another medal in the 5th Asian Beach Games with Harish Banghel winning a silver in the men's middleweight Muay Thai event on the second day of competition on Monday ... and seven bronze medals....

Olympian visits Harrison Elementary

Edit NJ dot com 26 Sep 2016
Harrison Elementary School first-grader Matthew Smith, right, shows the gold medal his cousin Katelin Snyder, left, won at the Olympic games in Rio ... the Team USA rowing team that won the gold medal this summer at the Rio Olympics....

Mariappan felicitated by alma mater

Edit The Times of India 26 Sep 2016
Mariyappan, from Periyavadagampatti near Kadayampatti in Salem district, had on the gold medal in the men's high jump T-42 event at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. The young athlete made a leap of 1.89 m in the event and won the gold medal ... gold medal in the next Paralympics as well....
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