medallist

British  

/ ˈmɛdəlɪst /

noun

1. a designer, maker, or collector of medals

2. sport a winner or recipient of a medal or medals

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Example Sentences

Had he not been afterwards Senior Wrangler, First Chancellor’s Medallist and I do not know how many more things besides? 

From The Way of All Flesh by Butler, Samuel

"Medallist, one curious in medals; Metallist, one skilled in metals."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The friend to whom these verses were addressed was Joseph William Blakesley, third Classic and Senior Chancellor's Medallist in 1831, and afterwards Dean of Lincoln.

From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Collins, John Churton

"Medallist might put him on the scent, if he is so dreadfully wary," said Lenoir.

From Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Hemyng, Bracebridge

My dear Tyndall, I have been going to write to you for two or three days to ask you to propose Hirst's health as Royal Medallist on the 30th November.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Huxley, Thomas Henry