Diameter:  61,3 mm

Weigth:  146  gr

Obverse:
Victory seated above stadium.

Reverse:
Dove of Peace flying, laurel branch in beak, logo above.

                        Gold         525
                        Silver        515
                        Bronze      550
 
 
 

The winners' medals designed by the Italian Professor Cassioli were used from the ninth Olympiad in Amsterdam in 1928 to the 17th Games in Mexico in 1968. At the Munich Games in 1972, Montreal Games in 1976 and the Moscow Games in 1980, independent designs were used on the reverse side of the medals upon the approval of the IOC.

The SLOOC began to study matters related to the winners' medals in 1984 and mapped out the major directions for the medals' materials and sizes. It set up a policy to put a unique Koreanstyle design on the reverse side of the medals for the official sports. In October 1986, the SLOOC commissioned the Korea Security Printing and Minting Corporation to manufacture the medals. The corporation submitted the draft designs to the SLOOC for deliberation by its advisory committee, and the final designs of the medals for winners and participants were announced publicly in June 1987, after being endorsed by the IOC Executive Committee.

Victory Ceremony:  400 m Freestyle, Ladies
Janet Evans, Heike Friedrich  and Anke Möhring

The winners' medals showed the ancient coliseum and the goddess of victory holding the laurel crowns on the obverse side on which were engraved "XXIVth Olympiad Seoul 1988." The back side showed a pigeon, the symbol of peace, soaring up, holding a laurel branch in its mouth, and the Seoul Olympic sash composed of three Taeguk patterns from the Korean national flag and five Olympic rings.

The medals were manufactured according to the pertinent provisions in the Olympic Charter. Gold took up 92.5 percent of the content of the gold medal, which was gilded with more than 5 grams of gold. It was 60mm in diameter and weighed 146 grams. Silver constituted 92.5 percent of the content of the silver medal and the remaining 7.5 percent of the content was bronze. It was 60mm in diameter and weighed 140 grams. The bronze medal contained 95 percent of bronze, 4 percent copper and 1 percent zinc. It was also 60mm in diameter.

A total of 525 gold, 515 silver and 550 bronze medals were manufactured for the official sports. For the demonstration and exhibition sports, 55 gold, 55 silver and 78 bronze medals were produced. All these medals were awarded during the Games.

(Source document:  Official report 1988, Vol. 1., page 442)

Diameter:   71 mm
Weigth:      244 gr

Obverse:   Victory seated above
                    stadium.

Reverse:     Barcelona logo of jumping athlete over Olympic rings.

The Olympic Charter, 1987 edition, specifies that the competitors classified in the first three positions in any of the Olympic sports events must receive a medal with the name of the sport in question engraved on it. The winner 's medal must be made of silver gilt, the runner-up's of silver and the third competitor's of bronze. The Charter also establishes that all the medals must be at least 66 millimetres in diameter and 3 millimetres thick and the sterling silver of the medals for first and second places must be at least 925/1000, with a layer of at least 6 grams of fine gold on the winner's.

Starting from these conditions and the tradition -uninterrupted since Amsterdam in 1928- of including an image of the goddess of victory on the obverse, COOB'92 commissioned the design of the Barcelona medals from the sculptor Xavier Corberó. The medal he designed was 70 millimetres in diameter and the ribbon with the Olympic colours was attached. The reverse was divided horizontally into two parts; the emblem of Barcelona'92 appeared on the upper one.

The obverse showed a medallion 56 millimetres in diameter, superimposed on the medal and slightly off-centre, on which the image of the goddess of victory appeared, drawn in a Modernist style, together with the words "XXV Olimpíada Barcelona 1992". All the medals were manufactured by the Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, which also met the costs.

(Source document: Official report 1992, Vol. 3, page 351)