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29. Grenoble 1968 Winter. Silver Second Place Winner’s Medal 30. Grenoble 1968 Winter. Bronze Third Place Winner’s Medal Awarded for Cross Country , Housed in Presentation Awarded for Skiing. Bronze, 60mm, by Roger Case. Silver, 60mm, by Roger Excoffon. Logo within French Excoffon, struck at the Paris Mint. Logo within French legend. Rev. legend. Rev. Depiction of a skier, “FOND” (Cross Country, Depiction of giant slalom, “Slalom Geant” below. Housed in black translated) below. Winners medals show, for the first time, the sport on the leather presentation case, gold embossed logo on top, lined in white reverse. With ribbon in Olympic colors. Housed in black leather case velvet and silk. Unc. ($10,000) with gold logo on top, lined in blue velvet and silk. EF. ($12,000) We Always Service Want Lists – Please let us know what you are looking for!

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31. Sapporo 1972 Winter. Gold First Place Winner’s Medal 33 Awarded for . Goldplated silver, 57x61mm, by Kazumi Yagi and Ikko Tanaka. slalom trails and skating stadium. Rev. Japanese sun and logo between Japanese and English legend. “Biathlon” pictogram attached above, reverse inscribed “Biathlon”. With blue, partially faded ribbon, Olympic color stripes on side. Medal EF. ($24,000) 32. Munich 1972. Bronze Third Place Winner’s Medal Awarded for Marathon to Mamo Wolde. Bronze, 66mm, by G. Marcks. Victory seated above Colosseum stadium. Rev. Castor and Pollux, 33. Innsbruck 1976 Winter. Cased Bronze Winner’s Medal for patrons of competitive sport and friendship. With ring and chain. Slalom. Bronze, 70mm, by M. Coufal. “SLALOM” over Bergisel Edge inscribed. Wolde, after finishing last in Melbourne 1956, did ski jump, Olympic flame at r. Rev. Official logo and legend. With not participate in Rome 1960 where Abebe Bikala won gold. They were ribbon in Austrian colors. Housed in red leather case with gold members of the same Oromo tribe in Ethiopia. Wolde participated again logo on top, lined in green velvet. EF. ($7,500) in 1964, and in Mexico City, 1968 he won the gold medal in Marathon. In Munich he ran his fastest marathon ever at 40 years although behind F. Shorter and K. Lismont. EF. ($7,000) Please Bid Early! 14 35 35

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34. Lake Placid 1980 Winter. Official Torch. Bronze-colored poly- aluminum top with a 15” leather handle, 73cm (24”) long, designed 35. Sarajevo 1984 Winter. Bronze Winner’s Medal in Presentation by Don McFarland. The torch was lit on January 30 in Olympia, Greece Case and Paper Box. Bronze, 65x71mm, struck by Majdanpek/Zin and carried to Athens, then transported in a miner’s lamp on a U.S. aircraft Mint. Laureated athlete’s head r. Rev. Logo encircled by Croation to Virginia. 52 runners representing all 50 states plus the District of legend. With orange ribbon. Housed in blue leather case lined in Columbia and the host village of Lake Placid carried the torch in nine days velvet and silk, and blue cardboard box (very rare). EF. ($7,000) to Lake Placid over approximately 1,000 miles (1600km). Very rare torch, 36. Calgary 1988 Winter. Official Torch with Stand and Pouch. unused. ($50,000) 60cm (23.6”). Maplewood handle with pictograms of 10 Olympic winter sports, steel torch bowl at top resembling the Calgary Tower, with Calgary Olympic legend in English and French. The flame was We Always Service Want Lists – flown from Athens, Greece, to St. John, Newfoundland. In 88 days, it was Please let us know what you carried about 18,000 km across Canada by 6,520 torchbearers sharing torches. Only about 100 torches were made. Together with Stand to are looking for! display the torch, and a black pouch with gold logo. EF. ($35,000) 15 37 39

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37. Lillehammer 1994 Winter. Gold First Place Winner’s Medal 39. Lillehammer 1994 Winter. Safety Lamp to Guard the Olympic Awarded for Short Track Speed Skating, 3000M Relay Ladies Flame During the Torch Relay. Gold colored brass, 21.5cm (8.5”), and Housed in its Presentation Case. Goldplated sterling silver by Koehler. With glass window in lower part, “Flame Safety Lamp” and Norwegian granite sparagmite stone, 80mm (3.2”), by Ingierd on top, and hanger. This lamp was used by the Olympic Torch Relay Hanevold. Olympic rings and stylized ice crystal frame attached to Organizing Committee in Greece during the relay. EF. Very rare. ($6,500) sparagmite stone. Rev. Speed skater besides ice crystals and logo, 40. Atlanta 1996. Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. Set of event engraved on stone, winning “3000M Relay Ladies” on right. Gold, Silver and Bronze Winner’s Medals. Goldplated, silver and The Korean gold medal winning team was age 13 to 18, and 13-year old bronze, 70mm, by Malcolm Grier Designers. Victory seated above Kim Yoon-mi was the youngest winter participant ever to win a medal. With stadium. Rev. Atlanta logo over laurel branches, no pictograms. Each blue and purple ribbon, housed in round blackened wood box with medal with green and gold bordered ribbon with Atlanta logo, each clear plastic top. EF. ($45,000) in a cardboard box. Gold medal spotty, all EF. (3 pcs.) ($5,000) 38. Lillehammer 1994 Winter. Official Torch. Birchwood handle, 153cm (60”) long, designed by A. Marandon and P.J. Kahrs. The upper part is cast aluminum with 5 wicks for lighting the torch with paraffin. This Thank You for Participating at torch was used in the torch relay. One of only 300 torches, and the largest of all torches. Cleaned at top.VF-EF. ($35,000) auctions.ioneil.com 16