Competitor’s badge issued for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Bronze, 38 mm x 40 mm, 13 gm, manufactured by Whitehead & Hoag of Newark. The medal features the Olympic rings over a shield and laurel branch, and is engraved “Xth Olympiad Los Angeles,” with number below, “273.” The badge’s ribbon is not present. Badges with bronze medallions were issued to team managers, athletes, attendants, and to the press. Each athlete badge was serially numbered and bore a short piece of colored ribbon, which indicated the sport in which the athlete was a competitor. These badges were good for admission to the athlete sections in the Olympic Stadium, the Olympic Village, and to the training quarters at the apropos stadium.
