Participation Medallion given to Official Hostess at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles
date: label: date made
content: 1984
name: label: user
content: Lind, Marla Ann
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Round bronze participation medallion with a relief of the Los Angeles Olympic Colisium and the Olympic rings on the reverse. Came in a blue velvet box. Every participant and volunteer of the games received one of these participation medals, and they have been given since the modern games of 1898. Given to the donor, Marla Lind, an official hostess at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 1984 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in Los Angeles, California with 140 countries participating. These Games were boycotted by fourteen countries, including the Soviet Union because of America’s boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. American Carl Lewis won four gold medals in track and field while Joan Benoit won gold for the U.S. in the first women’s marathon. Mary Lou Retton dominated women’s gymnastics becoming the first American to win the gymnastics all-around competition and the American men won the gold in the gymnastics team competition. With the addition of women’s only events of rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming and the addition of women’s events in track and field, shooting and cycling, women athletes were just beginning to see results from Title IX legislation of twelve years prior. The United States won the medal count with 174.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: level of sport
content: Olympics
label: web subject
content: Women
label: related event
content: Olympic Summer Games: Los Angeles, 1984
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Marla Ann Lind
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0943.08
label: accession number
content: 1984.0943
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0943.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medallion
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, bronze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in; x 6.35 cm