The 27-year-old became the first Irishman to win a gold medal at the championships for 117 years.
He went on to win a gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
If organizing were an Olympic sport, Jacques Rogge might win a gold medal.
In 2002 he qualified for the Olympic team and went on to win a gold medal in the half-pipe competition in Salt Lake City.
What hurt is that we lost the chance to win a gold medal that we could take home and show our family and our kids.
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In five days of Olympic competition, Britons had been collectively holding their breath, watching as one Olympic hopeful after another failed to win a gold medal.
Ye Shiwen took seconds off her personal best to break the world record and win a gold medal in the 400m medley on Saturday, swimming faster in the last 50m than the winner of the men's event.
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Earlier, Katrin Wagner-Augustin of Germany lost out on her second attempt at becoming the second woman in Olympic history to win a gold medal at four consecutive Games after helping take silver in the women's kayak four (K4).
On the field and off, Australian sport is arguably at its lowest ebb since the Montreal Olympics in 1976, when the country failed to win a single gold medal - a setback that led to the creation of the much-admired, and much-aped, Australian Institute of Sport.
At the previous two Olympics held on their soil, Canadians had failed to win a single gold medal.
He changed the face of the Games forever by being the first Chinese man to ever win a track gold medal, with victory in the 110m hurdles.
Overall, Douglas will leave London with much to celebrate: A gold medal win with Team USA, re-writing history with her gold medal win in the all-around, and a plethora of opportunities by which to earn endorsement dollars.
"I have lost to that doubles pairing three times before so it was really nice to come away with a win and go home with a gold medal from the Youth Olympic Games - I never expected that, " said Golding.
Three years ago I was diagnosed and my immediate thoughts was that's it, that's it, my rowing career is over, my dreams of going to Sydney to try and win a fifth Olympic gold medal was going to be finished, at that, that point.
She remained a force on the tour into the early 1990s, highlighted by a gold medal win at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
Some profess to have seen it during the 4 x 100 relay, in which defending world champion Australia was expected to win a medal, perhaps gold.
Since that thrilling night and excellent party in Accra, I've gone on to win a United Nations Correspondents Association Gold Medal in the Richard Ortega Prize for coverage of the UN and its agencies in Uganda.
"I wanted to win the gold medal as a gift for Thailand's Queen, who celebrated her 72nd birthday last Thursday, " said Udomporn, who was congratulated on the phone by Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra minutes after her triumph.
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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Still, being able to capitalize on a gold-medal win is most appealing, which is why global brands try to hedge against the potential of injuries (U.S. gymnast Paul Hamm) and falters (U.S. gymnast Alicia Sacramone) by enlisting a slew of athletes rather than relying on just one.
Reed, 29, will be considered a strong medal chance to win gold at London 2012, and he believes the success is being transferred to the sport on a local level.
By most accounts, he was a favorite to medal, if not win gold, at the 1976 Games in Montreal.
The "flying housewife" went on to win the gold medal in the 80m hurdles by a whisker, but dominated in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.
With Spitz watching from the stands, Phelps beat his American team mate Ian Crocker by just four-hundredths of a second to win his fourth individual gold and his seventh medal overall.
It was Jamaica's seventh gold medal of the Championships and followed a win earlier in the afternoon for their 4x100m women's relay team.
The Japanese gymnast Shun Fujimoto, who, in the 1976 Games, in Montreal, stuck his dismount from the rings on a broken leg and helped his team win the all-around gold medal, gave another.
At the 11 previous World Championships, Jamaica had never won more than one gold medal per meet and in 2005 its runners failed to win a single final.
Hamm took two-and-a-half years out from the sport after his controversial win at the Athens Olympics, which saw three judges suspended for a mistake which secured his gold medal.
The first one is special in some respects because you have a dream to try and achieve something and if you have your dream of trying to win Olympic gold medal the first one is that becoming reality.
It won every gold medal available in low-vote sports like table tennis and badminton but couldn't win a single "big state" sport.
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