Sentence examples for metre from high-quality English sources.

• There she won a gold medal in the 200-metre backstroke and a bronze in the 400-metre individual medley.

• In team events, Lochte won gold in the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay and silver in the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay.

• Naber also competed for the U.S. team that won gold medals in the 4 × 100-metre medley relay and the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay.

• Her individual victories included the 100-metre butterfly, 50-metre freestyle, 100-metre freestyle, and 100-metre backstroke.

• At the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, Halmay won silver medals in the 200-metre and 4,000-metre freestyle events and a bronze in the 1,000-metre freestyle.

• In Sydney she won gold medals in the 100-metre butterfly, the 100-metre freestyle, and the 50-metre freestyle and set new world records in each of these events.

• However, Trickett led her 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay team to a gold medal in a world-record 3 min 35.94 sec as well as earning an individual bronze in the 50-metre freestyle.

• At the 1908 Olympic Games in London, Taylor won gold medals in each event he entered—the 1,500-metre and 400-metre freestyle and the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay.

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• Lochte won three golds (200-metre IM, 200-metre backstroke, and 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay) and one silver (4 × 100-metre freestyle relay) at the 2013 FINA world swimming championships.

• At the 2006 Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) short-course (25-metre) world championships, Lochte set world marks in the 100-metre backstroke, the 200-metre backstroke, and the 200-metre IM.

• At the 2015 world championships, Fraser-Pryce won gold medals as a member of Jamaica’s 4 × 100-metre relay team and in the 100-metre event, becoming the first woman to win three 100-metre golds in world championships history.

• She put on a dominant showing at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, where she captured four gold medals (the 200-, 400-, and 800-metre freestyle and the 4  ×  200-metre relay) and one silver (4  ×  100-metre freestyle relay).

• Fu successfully defended her title in the 10-metre platform at the 1994 world championships in Rome, and at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, she accomplished a rare sweep of the 10-metre platform event and the 3-metre springboard.

• Common metre, abbreviated C.M., also called hymnal stanza, a metre used in English ballads that is equivalent to ballad metre, though ballad metre is often less regular and more conversational than common metre.

• At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, she again won a gold medal in the 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay and added silver medals in four other events: the 200-metre, 400-metre, and 800-metre freestyle and the 4 × 100-metre medley relay.

• He cemented his role as the best sprinter in history at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, where he captured golds in the 100-metre, 200-metre, and 4 × 100-metre relay events, becoming the first person to win golds in the two individual sprints in three straight Olympics.

metre sentence examples

• She also had a record-setting performance at the 2013 world championships, where she became the first female swimmer to win six gold medals—in the 100- and 200-metre backstroke, the 200-metre freestyle, the 4 ×100- and 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay, and the 4 × 100-metre medley relay.

• At the 2015 world championships, Franklin won gold medals as a member of the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay and the 4 × 100-metre freestyle mixed relay teams, as well as one silver (200-metre backstroke) and two bronzes (200-metre freestyle and 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay).

• At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Phelps captured six gold medals (200-metre and 400-metre IM, 100-metre and 200-metre butterfly, 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay, and 4 × 100-metre medley relay) and two bronze medals (200-metre freestyle and 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay) while setting five Olympic or world records.

• At age 15 she competed in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany: swimming 11 races in eight days, she captured gold medals in the 200-metre individual medley, 200-metre freestyle, and 400-metre freestyle, all in world record times, and she also won a silver in the 800-metre freestyle and a bronze in the 100-metre freestyle, dominating the women’s swimming field.