Just wanted to know if the medals are entirely made of gold, or perhaps it's just a part of them that is made of.
2007-08-09 06:37:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Olympics
Olympic Gold medals are actually gold-plated. Not solid gold.
Today's "gold" medals are actually sterling silver covered with a thin coat (6 grams or .21 ounces) of pure gold.
2007-08-09 06:48:45 · answer #1 · answered by jozjozjoz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!
The last time that a gold medal was made purely of gold was at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912!
These days Olympic medals consist of mainly silver... Silver medal pure silver & gold medal 92.5% silver with the last 7.5% being the gold outer Coating.
Hope this helps
2007-08-09 06:46:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
each and all the medals are made out of seventy 5% silver and then something is 25% gold, one hundred% silver, 25% bronze. So in spite of in case you got here in third place, a minimum of you're seventy 5% 2d place winner.
2016-11-11 20:53:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are 24 carat gold. Pure gold is very soft and 24 carat gold has a combination of other metals to make it strong.
The other metals pure silver and I think bronze is a combination of two other metals.
2007-08-10 13:18:56 · answer #4 · answered by Bru 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bronze is bronze.
Silver is silver.
Gold is silver plated in gold.
2007-08-09 07:03:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's all gold in one and silver in another!!
2007-08-09 06:52:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. They are only gold-plated.
2007-08-12 06:49:01 · answer #7 · answered by ramchandra b 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes solid gold solid silver
2007-08-09 06:41:13 · answer #8 · answered by jack jack 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋