first-place finish
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- The men captured the meet behind 10 first-place finishes out of 12 races, including two individual wins from freshman Jonathan Shepard.
- earning first-place finishes
- three first-place finishes
- recorded first-place finishes
They're taking our medals, our first place finishes.
- They're taking our medals, our first place finishes.
- And if that independent judge has taken the remote viewers information and matched it to the correct target, that's a first place finish, first place result.
Examples
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The team celebrated their first-place finish in the tournament, securing their spot in the finals.
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The men earned six first-place finishes over 16 events.
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The women had similar success with eight first-place finishes in the meet.
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Ross Chaney rides Steeler to their first place finish for heat number one.
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She qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics with a first-place finish in the women's 5000 m at the United States Olympic Trials.
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Sophomore Jeffrey Page captured a first-place finish on the day in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:18.08.
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Saturday, however, the Azusa Pacific women's swimming and diving team showed no signs of wear, winning the Orange County Invitational after two first-place finishes and four second-place swims to beat a five-team field for its second win of the season.
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After Shepard's win in the 200-yard IM, Stair captured the Bobcats' fifth first-place finish of the meet in the 100-yard butterfly with a commanding time of 59.44.
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After months of training, she finally achieved a first-place finish in the city marathon.
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His consistent performance led to multiple first-place finishes in the regional championships this season.
Synonyms
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2.1
The top position in a competition or race
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The top award given to the winner in a competition
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Surface Forms
Morphology
first-place + finish
The meaning is directly compositional: 'first-place' denotes the top ranking and 'finish' denotes the act or result of completing a race/contest, so together they mean finishing in first position. This is a regular, cross-linguistically common construction built from high-frequency components, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
First-place finish comes from sports and races: the person who is first crosses the finish line before everyone else and stands on the top step of the winners' podium. So it means 'an achievement of finishing in first place'.