Is the Olympic gold medal made of gold and silver, what are the main ingredients?

The Olympic gold medal is made up of gold and silver, and the main component is silver. In the case of the gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, the weight of a gold medal is about 500 grams. However, 494 grams of it are silver, and only 6 grams are real gold.

The tradition of awarding medals at the Olympic Games began with the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens. The International Olympic Committee's regulations for medals are: the diameter shall not be less than 60 mm, the thickness shall not be less than 3 mm, the gold and silver medals must use silver of purity as the main material, and the gold medal gold plating shall not be less than 6 grams.

Before the production of the Olympic gold medal, the mold must undergo a compression-resistant process, because the mold needs to be stamped several times during the production process to create a pattern on the front and back of the medal. Silver and bronze medals are made of pure silver and pure copper respectively, while gold medals are more special, requiring gold plating on the basis of "silver medals" in accordance with IOC standards. After stamping, a part of the semi-finished products will be sent to the craftsmen, where they will be manually manipulated until the silver and bronze medals are made.

There are some exceptions to the production of gold medals, and semi-finished products are sent to a certified Swiss laboratory for gold plating. In an electrolysis process, each gold medal is plated with 6 grams of gold with a thickness of 75 microns, after which a special enamel is used. The gold medal then goes back to the Olympic Committee, where the name of the sport is inscribed.

All medals basically contain copper in their composition, with gold medals being silver gold, silver medals being silver, and bronze medals being bronze.

The main material for an Olympic gold medal is not gold. According to relevant statistics, most of the Olympic gold medals are only gold-plated on the surface, only the gold medal at the 5th Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden in 1912 was made of pure gold, but in order to control costs, the Olympic gold medal has never been made of pure gold since then.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has strict and systematic regulations on the material and identity, size, shape, weight, and front pattern of Olympic medals. According to the IOC Guidelines for Procedures, each medal must be at least 60 mm in diameter and 3 mm thick, and the medals for the winners and runners-up in the Olympic events must be made of silver and be between 100% pure, while the winner's medal must be plated with no less than 6 grams of pure gold.

Specific to each Olympic Games, the organizers also have a lot of autonomy within the scope of the regulations. For example, the gold medal of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is called the "gold inlaid jade gold medal", which creatively inlays Qinghai Kunlun jade, which alludes to the "golden and jade good relationship" in traditional Chinese culture. It has a diameter of 70 mm, a thickness of 6 mm, a weight of grams, and a gram of pure gold.

In terms of the content of the gold medal alone, it is nearly 2,000 yuan, and if you count the silver and the jade used, as well as the process production fee, it is about 3,000 yuan.

The gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics, 85 mm in diameter, 7 mm thick, weighs 400 grams, ** contains 6 grams, accounts for the total weight, and the rest is composed of silver and copper, according to the ***** at the time, the whole gold medal** is about 644 US dollars. The Rio 2016 gold medal weighs 500 grams and is made of 6 grams of gold and 494 grams of silver, and the content is about $587 overall.

01 Gold medals are actually made of silver. The regulations of the 1978 Olympic Games clearly stipulate that the purity of silver in gold and silver medals must be higher than that of no less than 6 grams of gold in gold medals, and that Olympic medals should be round, with a diameter of no less than 60 mm and a thickness of no less than 3 mm.

Olympic medals are a form of motivating athletes in the Olympic Games with medal awards. Provided by the Organising Committee of each Olympic Games, but owned by the IOC and awarded to the winning athletes.

In 1896, at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, the champion received a silver medal and a flower crown made of olive branches, and the runner-up received a bronze medal and a laurel crown. This medal was designed by the French artist Jules Chapeland.

The second Olympic Games, held in Paris, were ruled out of the rules of the competition for the awarding of prizes of "special artistic significance", but each participant was given a rectangular medal with a picture of a warrior holding an olive branch.

In the first Olympic Games, there were no strict regulations on the composition, size, and design of the medals. It is said that the hosts believed that gold was often associated with gambling games and looked tacky, so there were only two types of medals: silver and bronze. The silver medal and olive branch ring were awarded to the champion, the bronze medal and laurel wreath were awarded to the runner-up, and only the bronze medal was awarded to the third place.

However, for the sake of statistical convenience, the medals of this Olympic Games are still calculated according to three categories: gold, silver and bronze.

For the first time, the top three winners of the Olympic Games in St. Louis were awarded gold, silver and bronze Olympic medals, and the medal ceremony was held in person after the finals.

At the 10th Los Angeles Olympic Games held in 1932, for the first time, podiums of different heights were set up according to gold, silver and bronze medals, and it was stipulated that the prizes would be awarded immediately after the end of each event, rather than waiting for the end of the competition.

According to the regulations of the Olympic Organizing Committee, the gold medal is not less than 6 grams. The silver medal is 100% pure silver, and the bronze medal is 95%-98% copper, plus some zinc.

Gold medals are actually made of silver, and the proportion of silver accounts for only pure gold, and the actual value of a gold medal is 660 US dollars; If it were all made of pure gold, it would be worth up to $21,200. Compared with the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the global **** soared by 90.

The metal composition of the silver medal is: silver and copper; The value is US$325 (about NT$9,750).

The metal composition of the bronze medal is: copper 97, zinc and tin together 3; The actual value is only 3 US dollars (about NT$90).

Gold, but since the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, the first leather and gold medals are no longer made of pure gold. However, although medals can be made without pure gold, the International Olympic Committee also has rigid requirements for the gold content of gold medals, and the 1978 Olympic Games regulations clearly stipulate that the purity of silver in gold and silver medals must be higher, and the gold content in gold medals is not less than 6 grams.

It is also stipulated that the Olympic medals shall be round, with a diameter of no less than 60 mm and a thickness of no less than 3 mm. The Rio Olympic medals are the greenest medals ever recorded, with only 6 grams** of the 500-gram gold medal, mainly plated on the surface of the medal, and the rest made up of recycled silver, which is worth about $600 per gold medal at current market prices.