Austria Innsbruck
IX Winter International Olympic Games

1091 athletes (including 199 female ones) of 37 national Olympic committees (36 teams – the FRG and GDR athletes made up a United Team of Germany) competed at these Games. Athletes of India, North Korea and Mongolia competed at the Winter Olympics for the first time. Totally 34 sets of medals had been played for in 6 sports.
The Soviet team included 69 athletes, who competed in the majority of disciplines (but for bobsleigh, tobogganing and single figure skating). The USSR team for the third time dominated the medal count in terms of won gold medals and total number of won medals. The Soviet athletes won 11 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals.
The IX Olympic Winter Games were officially opened by President of Austria Adolf Schärf.

WINNER MEDALS
The winners were awarded the medals suspended from an Austrian-flag-color-ribbon with a connecting ring.
A chill and frost creeps from the medal design created by Austrian designer Martha Coufal-Hartl. The snowy hills and stylized icy letters of the text let us feel what the winter in Austria is.
OBVERSE: an imposing Alpine scene with the inscription “INNSBRUCK 1964” going round it. For the first time the name of the discipline concerned in German appears on the medal at the foot of the mountain.
On the right of the mountain is the initial and name of the designer “M. Coufal”.
REVERSE: the official Olympic emblem with the coat of arms of the City of Innstruck linked with the Olympic rings, and with the inscription in German “IX Oliympische Winterspiele” (English: IX Olympic Winter Games) surrounding the composition.

COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL
OBVERSE: a view of the central street in Innsbruck, with St. Anna’s Column in the middle, against the background of the Alpine range.
REVERESE: the Olympic official logo, the coat of arms of Innsbruck, with the Olympic rings over it, sur rounded by the name of the host city and year of celebration “Innsbruck 1964”. A legend in German “IX Oliympische Winterspiele” (English: IX Olympic Winter Games) goes around the rim.

Olympic Medals, 1964 and 1976

The Austrian Government established the respective Olympic medals of merit to be presented to organizers and active participants of the IX and XII Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria in 1964 and 1976. The medals are 30 mm in diameter, suspended from a red-and-white triangular ribbon (bowknot for female recipients), and made of pewter.

GOLD WINNER MEDAL (FIRST PRIZE)

Metal	silver-gilt
Diameter	70 mm
Thickness	4,5 mm
Weight	168 g
Designer	M. Coufal
Mint	Austrian Mint (Vienna, Austria)

SILVER WINNER MEDAL (SECOND PRIZE)

Metal	silver
Diameter	70 mm
Thickness	4,5 mm
Weight	157 g
Designer	M. Coufal
Mint	Austrian Mint (Vienna, Austria)

BRONZE WINNER MEDAL (THIRD PRIZE)

Metal	bronze
Diameter	70 mm
Thickness	4,1 mm
Weight	129 g
Designer	M. Coufal
Mint	Austrian Mint (Vienna, Austria)

COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL

Metal	bronze
Diameter	61 mm
Thickness	4 mm
Weight	78 g
Designer	Welz
Mint	State Mint (Vienna, Austria)