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HISTORY FACTS * Gold wasn't always the top Olympic medal *
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HISTORY FACTS * Gold wasn't always the top Olympic medal *
by Paul Fri 26 Jul 2024, 7:59 am
Winners received a silver medal at the first modern Olympics.
The modern Olympic Games have gone through a lot of changes since their inception more than 120 years ago. Tug-of-war has come and gone as an Olympic sport, and nobody’s shooting live pigeons anymore. At the first modern Games in 1896 in Athens, Greece, even the prizes worked differently: There was no gold medal. First-place winners were awarded a silver medal and an olive branch. Second place got a bronze medal and a laurel branch. Third place got nothing at all.
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The current three-medal system came along at the next Olympic Games, held in Paris in 1900: First place received a gilt silver medal (silver coated in a thin layer of gold), followed by a simple silver medal for second place and bronze for third. First-place winners at the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games got solid gold medals for the first time.
Today, original Olympic first-place medals are pretty rare — there were only 43 events at the first modern Games, and many medals have been lost to time, though a few have come up for auction in the last couple of decades. One silver medal that was never awarded at the event sold in 2012 for around $32,000; it was intended for a boat race that was canceled due to high winds. Two more sold in July 2021 and January 2024 for $180,000 and $112,000, respectively.
Even now that Olympic athletes are awarded gold medals for first place, the medals are still mostly silver — in fact, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) mandates that they should be composed of at least 92.5% silver. Host countries mint their own medals, and some have put personalized touches inside. Japan, for instance, used metal from obsolete electronics, and for the 2024 Paris Games, France incorporated pieces of the Eiffel Tower into the medals.
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The current three-medal system came along at the next Olympic Games, held in Paris in 1900: First place received a gilt silver medal (silver coated in a thin layer of gold), followed by a simple silver medal for second place and bronze for third. First-place winners at the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games got solid gold medals for the first time.
Today, original Olympic first-place medals are pretty rare — there were only 43 events at the first modern Games, and many medals have been lost to time, though a few have come up for auction in the last couple of decades. One silver medal that was never awarded at the event sold in 2012 for around $32,000; it was intended for a boat race that was canceled due to high winds. Two more sold in July 2021 and January 2024 for $180,000 and $112,000, respectively.
Even now that Olympic athletes are awarded gold medals for first place, the medals are still mostly silver — in fact, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) mandates that they should be composed of at least 92.5% silver. Host countries mint their own medals, and some have put personalized touches inside. Japan, for instance, used metal from obsolete electronics, and for the 2024 Paris Games, France incorporated pieces of the Eiffel Tower into the medals.
By the Numbers
Athletes who competed in the 1896 Athens Games241
Athletes who competed in the 2020 Tokyo Games11,420
The last year Olympic athletes were awarded solid gold medals1912
Year of the first Winter Olympics1924
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Summer Olympic medals had the same design for 44 years.
Olympic medal designs can vary wildly depending on the host country, but the medals at the Summer Olympics were standardized for a long time (even as the ones at the Winter Games kept changing). The design, first used in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, featured Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, on one side, and a champion athlete being carried by a crowd on the other. Eventually, Germany broke the mold for the 1972 Olympics in Munich. The side with Nike stayed the same, but the other side featured a minimalist, nude image of Castor and Pollux, twin Greco-Roman deities associated with friendship and sports. Though the Nike side has been slightly altered in redesigns over the years, it still features an image of the Greek goddess.
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