1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics Participation Medal. Awarded to Canadian Skier Bud Clark.
Bronze. 83.7 grams. 60mm x 45mm. Offered is a participation medal from the 1932 Winter Olympics, held in Lake Placid, NY. These were the third Winter Olympic Games and the first held in the United States. They hosted 252 participants from 17 countries, who participated in 14 different events. Although The Robbins Company (Attleboro, MA) produced 700 of these participation medals, the vast majority would have gone to non-participants. Incredibly, the recipient of this piece had the foresight to have a jeweller engrave his name for posterity.
William George (Bud) Clark Biography (Taken from the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame website):
To quote from Eddie MacCabe's column in The Ottawa Citizen of Friday, January 3, 1975, Bud Clark was "..... probably the finest all-round skier to come out of Ottawa and the Gatineau hills.....He was the Canadian Nordic combined champion cross-country and jumping, in 1935, and the Canadian Alpine champion, downhill and slalom, in 1939, and veteran skiers can't recall any other man winning both titles."..
Clark was born in 1910 and died in 1975. He served as part of the Canadian National Olympic Team at the 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics, as Director of the Canadian Olympic Association, and as President of the Canadian Amateur Ski Association (1952-1959). He was inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame in 1982.
Included with this Olympic medal is an assortment of six small pins and medalets, also from the Clark family. One pin is in 10k gold (2.3 grams).
Bronze. 83.7 grams. 60mm x 45mm. Offered is a participation medal from the 1932 Winter Olympics, held in Lake Placid, NY. These were the third Winter Olympic Games and the first held in the United States. They hosted 252 participants from 17 countries, who participated in 14 different events. Although The Robbins Company (Attleboro, MA) produced 700 of these participation medals, the vast majority would have gone to non-participants. Incredibly, the recipient of this piece had the foresight to have a jeweller engrave his name for posterity.
William George (Bud) Clark Biography (Taken from the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame website):
To quote from Eddie MacCabe's column in The Ottawa Citizen of Friday, January 3, 1975, Bud Clark was "..... probably the finest all-round skier to come out of Ottawa and the Gatineau hills.....He was the Canadian Nordic combined champion cross-country and jumping, in 1935, and the Canadian Alpine champion, downhill and slalom, in 1939, and veteran skiers can't recall any other man winning both titles."..
Clark was born in 1910 and died in 1975. He served as part of the Canadian National Olympic Team at the 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics, as Director of the Canadian Olympic Association, and as President of the Canadian Amateur Ski Association (1952-1959). He was inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame in 1982.
Included with this Olympic medal is an assortment of six small pins and medalets, also from the Clark family. One pin is in 10k gold (2.3 grams).
Bronze. 83.7 grams. 60mm x 45mm. Offered is a participation medal from the 1932 Winter Olympics, held in Lake Placid, NY. These were the third Winter Olympic Games and the first held in the United States. They hosted 252 participants from 17 countries, who participated in 14 different events. Although The Robbins Company (Attleboro, MA) produced 700 of these participation medals, the vast majority would have gone to non-participants. Incredibly, the recipient of this piece had the foresight to have a jeweller engrave his name for posterity.
William George (Bud) Clark Biography (Taken from the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame website):
To quote from Eddie MacCabe's column in The Ottawa Citizen of Friday, January 3, 1975, Bud Clark was "..... probably the finest all-round skier to come out of Ottawa and the Gatineau hills.....He was the Canadian Nordic combined champion cross-country and jumping, in 1935, and the Canadian Alpine champion, downhill and slalom, in 1939, and veteran skiers can't recall any other man winning both titles."..
Clark was born in 1910 and died in 1975. He served as part of the Canadian National Olympic Team at the 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics, as Director of the Canadian Olympic Association, and as President of the Canadian Amateur Ski Association (1952-1959). He was inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame in 1982.
Included with this Olympic medal is an assortment of six small pins and medalets, also from the Clark family. One pin is in 10k gold (2.3 grams).