Olympic Gold medal Weight Archives - TechAccent https://www.techaccent.com/tag/olympic-gold-medal-weight/ Tech Updates, You! Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:10:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.techaccent.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/taicon.png Olympic Gold medal Weight Archives - TechAccent https://www.techaccent.com/tag/olympic-gold-medal-weight/ 32 32 Do you know the Weight of Olympic Gold Silver Bronze Medals at Rio 2016 https://www.techaccent.com/know-weight-olympic-gold-silver-bronze-medals-rio-2016/ Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:10:35 +0000 https://www.techaccent.com/?p=674 The Olympic Gold Silver Bronze Medals at Rio weighs 500 grams each and this is the highest weighed medal of all time Olympic events, in London 2012 Olympics it weighed 400 grams, an increase of 100 grams this time at Rio, all the 3 medals are of 85 millimetre. The medals are designed in a […]

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]]> The Olympic Gold Silver Bronze Medals at Rio weighs 500 grams each and this is the highest weighed medal of all time Olympic events, in London 2012 Olympics it weighed 400 grams, an increase of 100 grams this time at Rio, all the 3 medals are of 85 millimetre.

Olympic Gold Silver Bronze Medals at Rio
The medals are designed in a curved dome-shape, higher in the centre, so the thickness ranges from 6mm to 11mm, The gold medals at Rio are plated with 6 grams of gold with 99.9 percent purity check, and the remaining 494 grams is made of silver with 92.5 percent purity.

The cost of Olympic Gold medal is $630 or India it will be about Rs 42000. But the cost doesnt matter here as the Winners have much more emotional moments.

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