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Beautiful, large gold winner's medal awarded to Russian cross-country skier Yevgeny Dementyev at the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics. Gilt silver, 467 gm, 106 mm, designed by Quatrini and minted by Ottaviani International. The front features a fluid geometric design of the emblem of the Games at the bottom; the reverse has a polished pictogram of a hockey player below the engraved sport, “Cross-Country Skiing,” with the left side engraved, “Men's 15+15 km Pursuit,” below the Olympic rings. The edge is engraved in Italian, French, and English: "XX Giochi Olimpici Invernali, XX Jeux Olympiques d'Hiver, XX Olympic Winter Games." The uniquely designed medal has a hole at the center, through which the red, gold, and fuchsia ribbon is tied; the central hole was designed to suspend directly over the heart of the winning athlete as a unique symbol of life, energy, and human emotion. Complete with its original wood-and-plastic curved display case and cardboard storage box. A beautiful and impressive first-place Olympic prize—at the time, the Torino winner's medal was the largest ever issued.
Yevgeny Dementyev of Russia won the gold medal in the men’s 30 kilometre pursuit in cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, held on February 12 at Pragelato. The race combined 15 km in classical style with 15 km in freestyle, with athletes stopping between sections to change skis. After a dramatic start that included Frode Estil’s fall and a mass collision, the lead pack stayed close until the final stretch. Dementyev surged ahead late to beat Norway’s Estil by just 0.6 seconds, finishing in 1:17:00.8 and giving Russia its first gold medal of the Games.
