France Chamonix
I Winter International Olympic Games

These Winter Olympic Games were officially celebrated as the International Winter Sports Week in association with the Games of the VIII Olympiad (they were held in April of the same year). As we can see from the official name of this winter multi-sport event, originally it was not treated as the full-fledged Olympics. One year passed before the International Olympic Committee made a decision to celebrate winter Olympics regularly. Simultaneously the IOC decided to call these 1924 winter multi-sport competitions the First Olympic Winter Games.
258 athletes (including 11 female ones) of 16 nations competed at the Games. 16 sets of medals had been played for in 6 sports.
The I Olympic Winter Games were officially opened by French Undersecretary for Physical Education Gaston Vidal. 

WINNER MEDALS
OBVERSE: a skier is holding skates in his right hand, and skis in his left hand, with a mountain range in the background.
The designer’s name (Raoul Bernard) is engraved in French in the right segment of the obverse.
REVERSE: a fourteen-line inscription in French reads: “Chamonix Mont-Blanc Sports D’Hiver 25 Janvier – 5 Fevrier 1924 Organises Par Le Comite Olympique Francais Sous Le Haut Patronage Du Comite International Olympique A L’occasion De La Celebration De La VIII Olympiade” (English: Chamonix Mont-Blanc Winter Sports 25 January – 5 February 1924, organized by the French Olympic Committee under the high patronage of the International Olympic Committee on the occasion of the celebration of the VIII Olympiad).

Metal	bronze
Diameter	55 mm
Thickness	4 mm
Weight	67 g
Designer	Raoul Benard
Mint	Paris Mint (Paris, France)