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2021: As a reward for their achievements, the gold medal winners receive Philharmonic coins worth €17,000. Silver medalists received €13,000, bronze medalists received €11,000 each. 2024: As a reward for their achievements, the gold medal winners receive Philharmonic coins worth €20,000. Bronze medalists received €14,000 each. [5] [6]
Based on these prices, a gold medal is currently worth approximately $831.43.” Stone noted that because the medals are not made of solid gold, the pieces can get “dents and scratches” when ...
Second-place medals are made out of at least 925-1000 grade silver, which is going for $0.76 per gram as of Feb. 14. At 550 grams, that means a silver medal is worth $418.
The Royal Canadian Mint manufactured the medals for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic games. All medals for the 2010 Winter Games were manufactured in the Mint's Ottawa facility. The medals were designed by Corrine Hunt and Omer Arbel. The medals are based on two large master artworks of an orca whale (to be used on the Olympic medals ...
First place (the gold medal): It is composed at least 92.5% of silver, plated with 6 grams of gold; the metal value was about US$494 in 2010. [19] [20] At the 2020 Summer Olympics held in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, the medal at then-current prices was worth about $800. [21]
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.
Nevertheless, the IOC does publish medal tallies for information purposes, showing the total number of Olympic medals earned by athletes representing each country's respective National Olympic Committee. [2] The convention used by the IOC is to sort by the number of gold medals the athletes from a country have earned.
When she competed in Rio in 2016, she made less than what most Olympians make today, totaling $110,000 with four gold medals (then $25,000 per piece) and $10,000 for her bronze.