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  2. Olympic medal - Wikipedia

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    The custom of the sequence of gold, silver, and bronze for the first three places in all events dates from the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States. 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 ...

  3. All-time Olympic Games medal table - Wikipedia

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    To sort by gold, silver, and then bronze, sort first by the bronze column, then the silver, and then the gold. The table does not count revoked medals (e.g., due to doping). A total of 162 current and historical NOCs have earned at least one medal.

  4. Hierarchy of precious substances - Wikipedia

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    Sports events have a well-established convention (introduced into the Olympic tradition at the 1904 Summer Olympics), of a hierarchy of medals: bronze medalsilver medalgold medal. This presumably echoes conventional coinage systems, in which cheap bronze or copper denominations could aggregate to intermediate silver coins, then to ...

  5. Is a Gold Medal Really Gold? And What Is It Worth?

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    Gold: 556 grams. Silver: 550 grams. Bronze: 450 grams. ... At 550 grams, that means a silver medal is worth $418. Gold is trading at $59.75 per gram, so the 6-ounce gilding on the first-place ...

  6. Olympic medal table - Wikipedia

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    Systematic rankings based upon a weighted point system with the most points awarded to a gold medal have also been devised. Those used in the official reports were: 1908: 5:3:1 — gold medals 5 points, silver medals 3 points, and bronze medals 1 point. [5] [23]

  7. Why Do Athletes Bite Their Olympic Gold Medals?

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    The gold medal containing 6 grams of gold and mostly silver comes to around $950, while a silver medal comes in at around $480. A bronze medal is worth $13. But these amounts depend on the price ...