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A bronze medal from the 1980 Summer Olympics The bronze commemorative Medal of John VIII Palaeologus by Pisanello (1438), made in various metals, but usually in bronze. A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc.
The medal is a circular bronze disc 35 millimetres (1 + 3 ⁄ 8 inches) in diameter. On the obverse , or front, the National Emblem of India appears in the centre on a raised circle surrounded by four copies of the vajra , the weapon of Indra , the ancient Vedic king of the gods.
Rathore won silver in the 2004 Summer Olympics in double trap and has won 3 Commonwealth gold medals, one silver medal, and a silver and bronze medal in the Asian Games. [ 169 ] Abhinav Bindra , former air rifle shooter, won a gold medal in the 10m air rifle shooting event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics .
Bronze medal in Special Olympics Sita Sahu is a double Special Olympics medalist from India . Originally from Madhya Pradesh, she was barely fifteen when she won bronze medals for the 200 and 4X400 meter relay races held in 2011 during the Special Olympics in Athens . [ 1 ]
Karnam Malleswari – Bronze medal for Weightlifting, first Indian woman to win a medal at the Olympics. P. V. Sindhu – Silver medal in 2016 and Bronze medal in 2020 for Badminton, the first Indian to become the Badminton World Champion and the only badminton player from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games.
She won a silver medal in the women's sabre individual category in the 2019 Tournoi Satellite Fencing Competition in Ghent, Belgium, after losing to Bashta Anna from Azerbaijan. [14] [15] She made history by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal at the senior Commonwealth Fencing Championship in Canberra in the sabre event. She beat ...
The martial arts and combat sports events instead award two bronze medals. Since the 1952 Summer Olympics, boxing has automatically awarded bronze medals to both losing semi-finalists, on the grounds that there was not enough time to recover between the semi-final bouts and a third place bout. [3] Judo, taekwondo, and wrestling also award two ...
A phalera was a sculpted disk, usually made of gold, silver, bronze or glass, and worn on the breastplate during parades by Roman soldiers who had been awarded it as a kind of medal. [1] Roman military units could also be awarded phalerae for distinguished conduct in action. These awards were often mounted on the staffs of the unit's standards.