Korzhanenko, 30, won the first athletics gold of the Athens Games on Wednesday at Ancient Olympia and failed a test immediately after the competition there.
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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"I don't mind putting in the time to become better and better at something, " says Mr. Moses, who won his first gold in the 1976 Montreal Olympics while still in college, where he practiced six hours a day and studied until 2 a.m. most nights.
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Among the guests at the garden party were Olympians, Paralympians and London 2012 officials, including swimmer Rebecca Adlington and Helen Glover, the rower who won Team GB's first gold medal at the games.
The motion also asks for a local cycle trail to be named after Kenny, who won his first gold medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
In the first year, the sculptor Walter Winans won a gold for his statue of a trotting racehorse.
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But Wednesday, the U.K.'s Bradley Wiggins scored a gold medal in the cycling time trial, just hours after rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning won Britain's first gold of the Games.
The Chelsea Flower Show award was the first time a Leeds garden had won a gold medal at the prestigious event.
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For the first time since 1996, an American has won Olympic gold in the decathlon.
In the 1968 Games, in Mexico City, the American high jumper Dick Fosbury won the gold medal by flipping himself over the bar head first and backward a technique now known as the Fosbury Flop.
The bronze medal went to Austria's Anna Fenninger, who beat off competition from compatriot Kathrin Zettel -- extending the host nation's wait for a first individual gold of the competition, having won only Tuesday's mixed teams event.
Bjoerndalen is considered the best biathlete of all time having won five gold medals in his first two Games, with four coming at the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.
Monday night in London, Franklin won her first gold medal, in the 100-meter backstroke.
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Ekimov, from St Petersburg, first won Olympic gold in the team pursuit for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Games.
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Britain's first ever gold medal was won by Margaret Maughan that year in archery - the first sport to be included in Guttman's treatment plans.
Andy Murray joined the group last year, when he won a gold medal in singles at the London Olympic Games and his first major title at the U.S. Open.
Robbie Renwick won a first gold medal for Scotland in the last final of the day, the men's 200m freestyle.
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The Canadians have won all 10 of their matches in Vancouver, and a gold would make them the first team to go unbeaten since curling returned as an Olympic medal sport in 1998.
The success of the 2010 garden marked the first time in the history of the Chelsea show that a local authority had won gold in the elite large outdoor show garden category.
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History of a different sort was also made as Thabiso Moqhali won Lesotho its first Games medal with gold in the men's marathon.
Helen Glover, 26, won gold in the women's pair at London 2012 with her partner Heather Stanning, becoming the first British gold medal winners of the Games.
World No.3 Murray looked set to wrap up an easy win over Wawrinka, one of his victims as he won Olympic gold in London, when he took the first set with two breaks of service.
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Fenninger was relieved to have won her first medal of the championships, having claimed super-combined gold in 2011.
Her first novel I, Coriander won the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award in 2005.
Hoy won sprint, keirin and team sprint gold medals in Beijing to become the first Briton to win three gold medals at the same Games for 100 years.
Pak Hyon Suk won North Korea's first weightlifting gold with total lifts of 241kgs in the women's 63kg division.
It proved to be an inspired selection, and Kuske won his first Olympic gold medal at Salt Lake in 2002 as part of the victorious German four-man team.
He entered his first international science competition in the sixth grade and won a silver medal and then won gold medals in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades.
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"None of the ABA's promises were coming true, " added Gavin, 23, who won Britain's first ever world amateur gold in 2007 but who failed to make the weight in Beijing.
He first competed in the Paralympic Games in Athens in 2004, where he won gold in the 200m and bronze in the 100m, after having only taken up the sport eight months previously.
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