Medalist rhymes with:
anti-federalist, colonialist, criminalist, cyclist, dualist, duelist, editorialist, environmentalist, experimentalist, fatalist, federalist, finalist, fundamentalist, generalist, gradualist, imperialist, individualist, industrialist, instrumentalist, internationalist, loyalist, materialist, mercantilist, minimalist, moralist, motorcyclist, philatelist, presidentialist, pugilist, revivalist, royalist, semifinalist, sensationalist, spiritualist, survivalist, traditionalist, vocalist, zimbalist
Medalist sounds like:
middleweight, mittelstadt, mittelstaedt, mittelsteadt