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Rare winner's medal from the Paris 1900 Olympics. Silvered bronze, 38 mm x 57 mm, 48 gm, by Frederic Vernon, Paris. The front, inscribed "Republique Francaise, Exposition Universelle, Paris 1900," features a winged goddess scattering laurels over the grounds of the Exposition; the reverse identifies the event as swimming, “Concours de Natation,” and depicts a victorious athlete upon a podium. Stamped "Bronze" on the bottom edge, the upper section of which bears an added suspension loop for display purposes. A scarce and desirable winner’s medal for a popular Olympic tradition—76 participants from 12 countries competed in the seven swimming events of the 1900 Paris Games. Of these athletes, all men (women’s swimming would debut in Stockholm 12 years later), 11 earned silver second-place medals, with Hungary’s Zoltán Halmay and Austria’s Otto Wahle winning two each.
