Rare gold winner’s medal issued for "Ice Hockey" at the Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics. Gilt silver, 69 mm, 195 gm, designed by Peter Friedrich and struck by Jostens. The front depicts combined profiles of a laureated athlete and a First Nations indigenous person whose headdress is formed by winter sporting equipment; the reverse bears the stylized snowflake/maple leaf emblem of the Games and the Olympic rings at the center, with surrounding raised bilingual text: "XVes Jeux Olympiques d'hiver, XV Olympic Games, Calgary 1988.” The edge of the medal is engraved in English and French with the name of the event: “Ice Hockey.” The medal, which bears some wear to the rim and edges, includes its original blue velvet case.
Held between February 13th and 28th, the men's ice hockey tournament of the Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics was won by the Soviet Union team, their second straight Olympic gold and their seventh overall since the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, which marked the Soviet Union’s winter Olympiad debut.
