Outstanding winner's medal awarded to British cyclist Jack Lauterwasser for his performance at the Amsterdam 1928 Summer Olympics. Silver, 55 mm, 69 gm, by Giuseppe Cassioli; manufactured by the Dutch State Mint of Utrecht, Netherlands. The front, inscribed, “IXe Olympiade, Amsterdam, 1928,” features a ‘Seated Victory’ with the Colosseum in the background; the reverse portrays a winner carried by jubilant athletes. Additionally engraved along the bottom edge with the winner's name, "J. J. Lauterwasser."
Lauterwasser was selected for the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics and cycled there from London to compete. Owing to an unusual circumstance, he ended up with both bronze and silver medals for the same race: the 168 km team time trial event, which aggregated individual times. Originally, the British team—Lauterwasser, Frank Southall, and John Middleton—placed third, but they were moved to second after Italy’s disqualification. Lauterwasser had already returned home with his bronze; the silver was later sent to him, and he was never asked to return the bronze. He reportedly kept both medals in a biscuit tin.
