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Bronze winner's medal awarded to Soviet sailor Larisa Moskalenko for her third-place finish in the sailing (women's 470) event at the Seoul 1988 Summer Olympics. Bronze, 62 mm, 124 gm. The front features the traditional medal design by Giuseppe Cassioli of a ‘Seated Victory’ with the Colosseum in the background, and raised lettering, “XXIV Olympiad, Seoul, 1988”; the reverse features a sleek modern design by the Seoul Organizing Committee portraying a soaring dove of peace with a laurel branch in its beak, with the Seoul Olympic emblem above. The edge is inscribed with the event, “Yachting Women International 470 Class.” Includes its original ultramarine, red, orange, and white ribbon, and its purple velvet presentation case.
Accompanied by Moskalenko’s third-place winner’s medal diploma, and her Seoul 1988 Summer Games participation medal with certificate, the latter of which is affixed to a large cardstock sheet with related ephemera adhered to the front and back, including a roster sheet of the women's 470 yachting competitors, an image of Moskalenko and her teammate, Iryna Chunykhovska, on the winner’s podium, and a printed list of the final scores of the women's 470 yachting race.\
