Olympic diploma
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| Founder: | International Olympic Committee |
| Foundation year: | 1896 |
Olympic diploma is a written award given to participants in the Olympic Games who finished first to eighth in the final matches .
history
The first Olympic diplomas were awarded to athletes as early as 1896. In 1905, Theodore Roosevelt also received an Olympic diploma for merit for the Olympic idea. In 1923 it was decided that the first three of a competition should receive the diploma. From 1949 it was also given to athletes who had finished fourth, fifth or sixth. In 1981 it was decided that the seventh and eighth place athletes would also receive the Olympic diploma.
Until 1974 the term Olympic Diploma was also used for the Olympic Order .
Manufacturing
The certificate is provided with the signature of the President of the International Olympic Committee and the respective President of the Organizing Committee using a signature machine. The design of the certificates must be approved by the IOC.
Individual evidence
- ↑ What do winners at the Olympic Games receive? ( English ) International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
- ↑ Sam Borden: The Games' Unfamiliar Honor (Even Among Its Recipients). In: The New York Times . February 16, 2014, accessed April 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Lucy Westcott: An Olympic Diploma Might Make You Feel Slightly Better About Losing Gold. In: The Wire . February 17, 2014, accessed April 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Olympic Charter ( English ) International Olympic Committee . Retrieved February 21, 2014.
