Sarajevo Winter Olympics pin, 1984
date: label: date made
content: 1984
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Sarajevo Winter Olympics pin, 1984. The pin is rectangular with a black enamel ground and the Olympic rings in gold at the top of the pin. The snowflake design for the Sarajevo games is in red in the center of the pin.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 1984 Winter Olympics, also known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad were held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia with 49 countries, 1,272 athletes participating. This was the first Olympics held in a socialist state. Disabled skiing was a demonstration sport at these Games. Scott Hamilton won the gold in men’s figure skating, while American Rosalynn Sumners took silver as Katerina Witt took the gold. American twins Phil and Steve Mahar took gold and silver in the slalom, the first twins to do so. The Soviet Union won the medal count with 25 with the United States tying for 5th place with Sweden.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Olympics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2022.0044.02
label: accession number
content: 2022.0044
label: catalog number
content: 2022.0044.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin, winter olympics
label: Object Name
content: olympic pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 1 in x 1/4 in; 3.175 cm x 2.54 cm x .635 cm