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Rare sample bronze winner’s medal from the Squaw Valley 1960 Winter Olympics. Bronze, 57 mm, 90 gm, by Herff Jones, Indiana. The front features embossed heads of male and female athletes in profile, with bold text: “VII Olympic, Winter Games”; and the reverse is encircled with raised text of the Olympic motto, “Citius, Altius, Fortius,” and the sport, “Biathlon,” and the center stamped “Sample” below the Olympic rings in relief. Edge is engraved, "H. J. CO."
The Squaw Valley 1960 Winter Olympics hosted the first appearance of modern biathlon in the Olympic Games. The sport was added to the Olympic program after organizers elected not to construct a bobsleigh run for the Games, making Squaw Valley the only Winter Olympics not to feature a bobsleigh competition. Biathlon consisted of a single event held at McKinney Creek Stadium in Tahoma, California, on February 21, 1960. Thirty athletes from nine nations competed, with Sweden’s Klas Lestander, Finland’s Antti Tyrväinen, and the Soviet Union’s Aleksandr Privalov taking the gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively.
