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The Olympic gold medal is the mark of achievement of the highest level in a particular sport. Many high schools proudly point to an alumnus who has been to the Olympics. Relatively few high schools have the depth to have produced more than one Olympic gold medalist. Notes: T = team gold medalist; WR = also hold the current world record
Legal since 1992, law sometimes ignored. Every homeschooled child must be enrolled into a state-licensed school (can be a private school), and does not have to pass annual exams. Homeschooled children received diplomas from supervising school. 50,000–100,000 [39] [40] Singapore Legal with regulation including needing an exemption 50 per year ...
Those athletes who win multiple Olympic gold medals are entitled to more than S$1 million only for the first individual gold medal won at the Games. [46] The money, however, is taxable and the medal winner is obligated to share half of the prize money to the sport they are representing.
Shackell is just the second Indiana girl to medal at an Olympics while still in high school (Fort Wayne Snider’s Sharon Wichman at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. She won gold in the 200 ...
Spain hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Spanish athletes have won a total of 192 medals in 33 different sports as of 2024 and the country currently ranks 25th in the all-time Summer Olympics medal count, with canoeing as the top medal-producing sport and sailing as the top gold medal-producing sport. Five of those medals were won at ...
Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, Calif., churns out Olympians at a pace that other high schools around the country can’t match. Paris 2024: One high school has produced an ...
Gold medal of the IPhO 2019. The minimal scores required for Olympiad medals and honourable mentions are chosen by the organizers according to the following rules: A gold medal should be awarded to the top 8% of the participants. A silver medal or better should be awarded to the top 25%. A bronze medal or better should be awarded to the top 50%.
The five Olympic rings are also stamped on the iron of the Olympic medals. The Paralympic logo of three swooshes, known as the Agitos, is stamped on the medals for the Aug. 28-Sept. 8 Paralympics.