Teams from Yugoslavia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1920. Yugoslavia has been the designation for Olympic teams from three distinct national entities: The National Olympic Committee for the Netherlands Antilles was created in 1931 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee from 1950 until 2011 upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles. [23] Custom Soccer Medals : Celebrate every goal, every save, every match with our specially designed soccer medals.

Custom Design Medals : Our team is ready to help you create a custom medal design that perfectly captures the essence of your event or achievement. Greensfelder, Jim; Vorontsov, Oleg; Lally, Jim (1998). Olympic Medals: a reference guide. GVL Enterprises. pp.9–10. Australasia was a combined team of athletes from Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand that competed together at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. When the Olympic Games resumed in 1920 after World War I, the two nations sent separate teams to the Games, and have done so ever since.a b c Barney, Robert K. (1998). "A Research Note on the Origins of the Olympic Victory Podium" (PDF). International Symposium for Olympic Research. Fourth: Global and Cultural Critique: Problematizing the Olympic Games: 219–226. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2014 . Retrieved 12 September 2013. The West Indies Federation, [9] [10] also known as the West Indies, [11] [12] the Federation of the West Indies [13] or the West Indian Federation, [14] [15] [16] was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962. Various islands in the Caribbean that were part of the British Empire, including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, and those on the Leeward and Windward Islands, came together to form the Federation.The expressed intention of the Federation was to create a political unit that would become independent from Britain as a single state [17] In other words, these elements could simply be dug out of the ground in a pure form, or in the case of silver and copper, in a form that was weakly bonded to oxygen or sulfur. Once humans learned how to easily produce pure forms of these metals, they became widely usedto create tools, currency, art and many other things. These metals are also easy to manipulate and shape, with relatively low melting points, making them ideal candidates for small, carefully crafted items, like Olympic medals. Elegantly presented in a sleek polished finish, the Prestige Shield Medal is cast from premium zinc alloy and coated in shiny gold, silver or bronze. The medal is designed in a shield shape and is ideal for text engraving on the front. The price includes this personalised text engraving. Historical Medals - london2012.com (Summer Games, not corrected for disqualifications after 13 August 2012)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Sports events have a well-established convention (introduced into the Olympic tradition at the 1904 Summer Olympics), of a hierarchy of medals: bronze medal - silver medal - gold medal. This presumably echoes conventional coinage systems, in which cheap bronze or copper denominations could aggregate to intermediate silver coins, then to gold money. The archetypal British designations ( penny, shilling and pound) parallel and reflect this hierarchy. BWI → BAR , JAM , TTO Athletes from Barbados (BAR), Jamaica (JAM), and Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) competed as the British West Indies (BWI) at the 1960 Games. The West Indies Federation only existed as a nation from 1958–1962, so the constituent nations once again competed independently in 1964. Custom Racing Medals : Our custom racing medals are perfect for adding a unique touch to any racing event, capturing the energy and competitive spirit. Events- sponsorship in sport or in the arts may involve (for example) silver, gold and/or platinum sponsors.

The design of the medals changes for each games, and this time around they are the work of Junichi Kawanishi.