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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]
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.
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.
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.
The United States placed first in total medals—its second time doing so in a Winter Games—and set a new record for most medals won by a NOC at a single Winter Olympics, with 37 (the previous record was 36, established by Germany in 2002). [3] Athletes from Slovakia and Belarus won the first Winter Olympic gold medals for their nations. [5] [6]
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.
Other exceptions are the 1896, 1912, and 1964 Summer Olympics when the United States finished first in gold medal count, but second in the overall medal count. In an 24 August 2008 news conference, IOC President Jacques Rogge confirmed that the IOC does not have a view on any particular ranking system. [18]