Rare winner’s medal issued for the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics. Gilt silver, 65 mm x 71 mm, 169 gm, by Majdanpek, Belgrade. The front, inscribed, “XIV Zimske Olimpijske Igre, Sarajevo 1984,” features the Olympic rings and Sarajevo emblem; the reverse features a stylized athlete’s head with a laurel crown and the lower portion engraved with the sport: “Ice Hockey.” Includes its original orange ribbon and uncommon blue leather presentation case, which bears scuffs and marks.
Held between February 7th and 19th, the men's ice hockey tournament of the Sarajevo Winter Games was won by the Soviet Union team, their first since their ‘Miracle on Ice’ upset and their sixth overall since the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, which marked the Soviet Union’s winter Olympiad debut.
Only 95 gold medals were produced for the XIV Olympic Winter Games, and of the total 285 medals that were manufactured, 222 were awarded to athletes while the balance was presented to members of the International Olympic Committee and placed for safekeeping in the Sarajevo Olympic Museum.
