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      • Gold, silver and bronze medals are awarded to the top finishers in every event at the Olympic Games - a tradition that began at the St. Louis 1904 Olympic Games. About the medals The gold, silver and bronze medals awarded to competitors at the Olympics and Paralympics represent the highest levels of athletic achievement at the Games.
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  2. Jul 27, 2024 · Gold medals only contain about six-percent pure gold, while it is mostly made up of silver. The silver included has at least a 92.5-percent purity rating.

  3. Jul 31, 2021 · The gold medal is in fact made from gold-plated pure silver, with around 6 grams of gold out of a total weight of 556 grams. A silver medal is worth around $450 if you melt it down. Odd...

  4. An Olympic medal is awarded to successful competitors at one of the Olympic Games. There are three classes of medal to be won: gold, silver, and bronze, awarded to first, second, and third place, respectively. The granting of awards is laid out in detail in the Olympic protocols.

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    Host
    Details
    Designer (s)
    Obverse: The Olympic Rings and "XXIV ...
    Hang Hai
    Pyeongchang County, South Korea
    Obverse: Abstract design resembling ...
    Sochi, Russian Federation
    Obverse: "Patchwork quilt" design ...
    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    Obverse: An individually cropped section ...
    Corrine Hunt and Omer Arbel
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    • Beijing Winter Olympics Medal Design

    The Olympic medals aren't fully made with the same metals that they're named after. For example, the gold medals only contain about six grams of gold. Otherwise, at least 92.5 percent is made from silver. The last fully gold medals given out dates back to 1912. The silver medal, however, is made from 100 percent silver. The bronze medal is made of ...

    The medal sizes vary from each Olympic Games. The Winter Games medals tend to be slightly bigger than the Summer Games ones. The medals must be sized within a range of 70 millimeters (2.76 inches) to 120 millimeters in diameter. The thickness must be between three millimeters to 10 millimeters. In terms of weight, the medals vary from 500 to 800 gr...

    Each Summer and Winter Olympics have unique designs, typically modeled after the host city and its culture. The Beijing Winter Olympics are named "Tong Xin" this year, meaning "together as one." According to the Olympic website, the medal design is "based on Chinese ancient jade concentric circle pendants with the five rings representing the Olympi...

  5. The gold, silver and bronze medals awarded to competitors at the Olympics and Paralympics represent the highest levels of athletic achievement at the Games. The design of the medals is the responsibility of the host city's organizing committee, and varies with each edition of the Games.

  6. Jul 23, 2021 · The gold medals only have six grams of gold plating on it, as the rest is pure silver. The silver medal is made of pure silver while the bronze medal is made of red brass, which is...

  7. Jul 28, 2019 · Gold and silver medals are at least 92.5% silver. Gold medals must be plated with at least 6 grams of gold. All Olympic medals must be at least 3 mm thick and at least 60 mm in diameter. Bronze medals are bronze, an alloy of copper and usually tin.