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She also won a gold medal in the women's 1500-meter freestyle, a silver medal in the women’s 4x200-meter freestyle relay race and a bronze medal in the women’s 400-meter freestyle.
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A silver medal was awarded to the winner of each event during the 1896 Summer Olympics. Recent Olympic medals are suspended as a pendant from a ribbon, and are awarded in gold, silver and bronze. Traditionally, medals are made of the following metals, in order of decreasing value [citation needed]: Platinum; Gold
A silver medal from the original 1896 Olympic Games — when silver went to the winner and there was no gold medal — sold for $180,111. A gold medal from the 1936 Olympics — one of four that ...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has retroactively assigned gold, silver and bronze medals to the three best-placed athletes in each event of the 1896 and 1900 Games. [ 16 ] [ 15 ] If there is a tie for any of the top three places all competitors are entitled to receive the appropriate medal according to IOC rules. [ 17 ]
The medal was initially paid for through a trust fund established by the Martin J. Sheridan Memorial Committee, with New York State Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan serving as chairman. [ 9 ] A 1936 New York Yankees World Series ring cast by Dieges & Clust and owned by Lou Gehrig held the record sale price for such a ring at $17,500.
With the current price of gold, this makes the top prize at most Olympic games worth only about $600, as compared to more than $20,000 for the solid gold medals of the past.
The gold, silver and bronze medals of the 1964 Olympic Winter Games (Olympic Museum). A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture.