Historic winner's medal awarded to German show jumper Kurt Hasse at the Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics. Gilt silver, 57 mm, 73 gm, by Giuseppi Cassioli. The front is inscribed “XI. Olympiad, Berlin, 1936” and features a ‘Seated Victory’ with the Coliseum in the background; the reverse portrays a winner carried by jubilant athletes; and the bottom edge is stamped "B. H. Mayer, Pforzheim, 990." The medal bears some instances of rubbing to the gilt, wear to the edges, and a surface mar to the reverse. Complete with its scarce hinged presentation case, gilt-stamped on the lid with an emblem of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Bell.
German show jumper Kurt Hasse, with his horse Tora, earned gold medals in the individual and team show jumping events at the Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics. The jumping test featured 20 obstacles and had a time limit of 160 seconds. Points were lost for faults (including elimination for the third refusal on the course) and for exceeding the time limit. Hasse lost just four points for upsetting an obstacle, and won the individual gold medal in a tie-breaking 'jump off' against Romanian rider Henri Rang. Riders performed a single round of jumping, with their scores tallied to determine results in the team competition. A career military officer, Hasse would be killed in action on the Eastern Front during World War II.
