Olympic Games Sydney 2000 Medals

Front: Seated Victory holding laurel wreath and palm fronds, wattle sprigs below with Colosseum in background.

Back: Olympic rings over Sydney Opera House and Sydney Olympic torch. Sport is engraved at bottom.

Ribbon is blue and white with silver embroidered legend "Sydney 2000"
Medal presented in silver metal base with blue acrylic top

Designer: Woljciech Pietranik and Brian Thompson
Mint: Royal Australian Mint, Perth Australia

Sydney 2000

Venus and Serena Williams won the first of their three consecutive Olympic gold medals in women's doubles tennis in Sydney.

After a rocky start in the round-robin, the United States women's softball team won three straight games in the playoffs of the Olympic softball tournament to defend their gold medal. This would be centerfielder Laura Berg's second of three gold medals. Along with her silver medal won in her final Olympic appearance in Beijing 2008, this would make Berg the most decorated Olympic softball player with a total of four medals - three of them gold.

The water effect visible on both the front and back of the prize medals gives dimension to the design while intergrating another characteristic of Sydney into the design.

An engraver was housed in the Olympic Village and athletes could have their names engraved under the sport on reverse if they desired.