Original winner medal for 1st place (gold) at the I. Olympic Winter Games Chamonix 1924. By R.Bénard. Gilt silver (hallmarked "2Argent"; weight 76 grammes), 5.5 cm. This is the first gold medal for a Winter Olympics with the typical thin gilding for gold medals of the 1920s. Only 26 copies of the gold medal were issued. There were only 258 participants in the Chamonix Winter Olympics. Rare. Excellent. EF! Provenance: From the collection of the famous collector Manfred Bergmann/Lausanne. The medal was sold in October 2021. The buyer consigned this medal directly. Condition: A