Taiwan has claimed its first gold medal at the 2025 World University Games, with a first place for the women's team poomsae, with a bronze for the men's team in the same event.

The 20th Island Games have come to an end after a sensational week for many of the 24 islands competing. The Faroe Islands, ...

The official rules require some pure gold, but that's just part of what goes into a 1st place medal at the Olympics. While gold medals at the Olympics are not 100% made of gold, they are plated ...

Burkina Faso made an impressive start by clinching the first gold medal in the U-18 women's triple jump at the ongoing 3rd ...

The medal was initially won by Fred Schule for his first place win in the 110 meter hurdles event. The gold pendant is still attached to its gold clasp and the original red, white, blue, and ...

However, there was no gold medal. The first-place winner was given a silver medal and an olive tree branch. Second place received a copper medal and third place received a bronze medal.

Yang Qian also won the first gold medal of those Games, which was in the individual 10-meter air rifle event. She had to receive her medal in a mask because of the pandemic restrictions in place ...

Shaner brought home the second overall gold medal for the U.S. at the Olympics, following Chase Kalisz’s win in the men’s 400-meter individual medley.. The 20-year-old American shooter, the ...

In response to the news that the first gold medal of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games will no longer come from shooting, a ...

However, at the first games, rather than gold, first place competitors won silver medals, second place won bronze. In the next Olympics in 1900, the winners mostly received trophies or cups.

While the first-place medals for the 1904 and 1908 Olympics were actually made of solid gold, the Olympic Games have made the medals from silver plated with gold since the 1912 Olympics.