gold for 1st, Silver for 2nd and BRONZE for 3rd
The third Olympic medal color is bronse.
Bronze Medal
The Olympic winners received a wreath made of a sacred olive tree branch. Another version is that after the contest, the victor was given a ribbon.
The 2008 Games are the third that Lauren Jackson has played for Australia. She was a member of the silver medal winning teams at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Games.
They win gold medals (worth US$600) if they are first, silver (worth US$325) if they are second, and bronze (worth US$3) if they are third. Each countries' Olympic federation decides on a cash prize for their athletes (ranging from US$1million for gold in Singapore to no cash prizes in Great Britain)
Cuba .. Félix Savón won his third consecutive Olympic gold medal in heavyweight class boxing at the 2000 Games.
Paris, France. George Orton, born in of Strathroy, Ontario, won Canada's first Olympic medal at the 1900 Games in Paris. He won the 2500 meter steeplechase and finished third in the 400 meter hurdles.
An Olympic champion receives a gold medal. The runner-up wins a silver medal and third place gets bronze.
You get a bronze medal if you come in 3rd place.
In modern Olympic, the first-places winners got gold medal ,the second-places winners got silver medal and the third-places winners got bronce medal. In ancient Olympic, the winner got olive branches.
The United Kingdom will hold its third olympic games this year
bronze metal