Figure skating was first contested as an Olympic sport at the 1908 Summer Olympics, in London, United Kingdom. These historic Olympic bronze medal winners are listed by popularity, so the most historic Olympians are at the top of the list. Olympics Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community.          Sexual Content Funding for USA.gov and content contributors is made possible from the U.S. Congress, E-Government Act of 2002. Clara Hughes, (born September 27, 1972) is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater who has won... Ole Einar Bjørndalen (born 27 January 1974) is a retired Norwegian professional biathlete,... Angela Marie Ruggiero (born January 3, 1980) is an American former ice hockey defenseman. PROTIP: BRONZE STAR RECIPIENTS. Bronze Medal, also known as Third Place, is an exploitable image macro series depicting a man receiving a bronze medal during a sports event while overly celebrating and popping champagne despite coming in third. If you're trying to answer the questions, "Which Olympians have won a bronze medal?" Athletes You Didn't Know Were Conservative, American Public Figures Who Are National Treasures. Overlaid in the middle of the star is a 3/16-inch wide bronze star. Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov are also two-time Olympic champions: they won the pairs competition in 1988 for the Soviet Union, and repeated the victory at the Lillehammer Games representing Russia. Swedish figure skater Gillis Grafström—who competed in four consecutive Olympics, from the 1920 Summer Games to the 1932 Winter Games—is the overall medal leader in the sport, having collected four medals. Lipinski was the youngest in 1998 at 15. A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. 'i' List of Korean Conflict Bronze Star recipients. She... Matthew Nicholas Biondi (born October 8, 1965) is an American former competition swimmer,... Halvard Hanevold (born 3 December 1969) is a former Norwegian biathlete. From 1972–2000, Cassioli's design (or a slight reworking) remained on the obverse with a custom design by the host city on the reverse. The meme was upvoted over 40,000 times and commented on 600 times. Check out the breweries just awarded medals at this years Great American Beer Festival competition. Grafström followed the footsteps of countryman Ulrich Salchow, the first Olympic champion and creator of the jump bearing his name, who later became president of the International Skating Union (ISU). Crowd sourced content that is contributed to World Heritage Encyclopedia is peer reviewed and edited by our editorial staff to ensure quality scholarly research articles. The practice of awarding bronze third place medals began at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, … On February 16th, 2020, Redditor[3] Godzilla_original posted another example to the r/HistoryMemes sub depicting the bronze winner as Christopher Columbus reaching America (shown below). Digital Archaeologist & Curator & Collection Butler, Digital Archaeologist & Curator & Media Bus Boy. The practice of awarding bronze third place medals began at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri, before which only first and second places were awarded. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bronze_medal&oldid=988742529, Articles with unsourced statements from August 2012, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 15 November 2020, at 00:16. On Twitter, the meme can also be seen being tweeted or used in replies to various posts. All 10 winners will receive a Publicity Primer package and one of the 10 winners will be chosen for a 90 day representation and relaunch of their book. There are three types of Bronze Star Medal: Achievement, Merit or Valor. [1] The oldest ladies' winner is Syers in 1908 at age 27. "HEROIC OR MERITORIOUS ACHIEVEMENT" is engraved on the reverse side.