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Winner's medal issued to British sprinter Guy Butler at the Antwerp 1920 Olympics. Silver, 60 mm, 87 gm, by Josue Dupon. The front shows a victorious athlete holding a laurel wreath and palm branch, with a statue of Renommee in the background, inscribed "VII Olympiade"; the reverse depicts the Brabo fountain above the Antwerp shield, with the Cathedral of Our Lady and city looming in the background, inscribed above, "Anvers MCMXX." Bottom edge is stamped “A” for Argent and is engraved with the name of the event, the recipient, and his placing: “400 Meters, G. M. B. Butler, 2nd.” Accompanied by two sterling silver winner’s shield plaquettes issued to Butler at a Cambridge University Athletic Club track-and-field event at Trinity College in 1919, which identify Butler as the winner of the “¼ Race” and the “100 Yds Race.”
Sprinter Guy Butler (1899–1981) remains one of the most awarded runners in the long history of British Olympians. Butler’s four Olympic medals — a gold in the 4 x 400 at Antwerp, this offered silver in the 400-meter, and two bronzes in the same events in Paris four years later — tie him with athletes Sebastian Coe, Christine Ohuruogu, and Mo Farah for the most athletic medals in British Olympic history.
A total of 29 nations attended the VII Olympiad in Antwerp, Belgium, with Hungary, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire all banned from competing due to their involvement in World War I and the cancelation of the 1916 Games. Despite such political unrest, the return of the Games debuted a trinity of enduring Olympic traditions—the voicing of the Olympic Oath, the symbolic release of doves, and the initial flying of the Olympic flag. An exceptional first place medal of the utmost historical interest and rarity.
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