IOC replaces Olympic great Gary Hall Jr's 10 medals that were destroyed in Los Angeles wildfires

Gary Hall Jr.’s Olympic medals were destroyed successful the Los Angeles fires. On Monday, helium was awarded 10 replica medals astatine IOC office to regenerate the ones helium lost.

Like astir of Hall’s belongings, the archetypal medals burned 4 months agone astatine his location successful the Pacific Palisades.

"I’ll bash a amended occupation of taking attraction of these," Hall said jokingly.

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American swimmer Gary Hall Jr. holds an archetypal medal from Atlanta 1996 that melted during the wildfires successful Los Angeles that destroyed his home, portion holding a replica medal presented to him successful Lausanne, Switzerland, connected Monday, May 5, 2025. (Denis Balibouse/Keystone/Reuters Pool via AP)

The 50-year-old received a caller acceptable of 5 golden medals, 3 silvers and 2 bronze medals that helium earned swimming for the United States. 

IOC president Thomas Bach said presenting Hall Jr. with 10 medals connected the aforesaid time was a "unique ceremony."

"I don’t deliberation that it happened ever earlier and I anticipation it volition ne'er person to hap again," Bach told Hall. "We anticipation besides to springiness you a infinitesimal of alleviation and joyousness which volition assistance you present successful the further process to get implicit what you had to spell done with this tragedy."

Hall brought to the ceremonial a golden medal helium recovered deformed successful his location successful the aftermath of the wildfires. 

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U.S. swimmers Anthony Ervin, left, and Gary Hall Jr., center, who tied for golden successful the men's 50m freestyle, basal with Dutch swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband, who won the bronze medal, Sept. 22, 2000, during the Summer Olympics successful Sydney. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, file)

Hall won golden successful the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games successful the 4x100m freestyle relay and 4x100m medley relay and took location 2 metallic medals successful the 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle successful those aforesaid games. 

The Phoenix, Arizona, autochthonal won 2 much golden medals successful the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games successful the 50m freestyle and 4x100m medley relay portion besides collecting a metallic and bronze medal successful Australia. 

In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Hall Jr. won his last 2 medals. A golden medal successful the 50m freestyle and a bronze medal successful the 4x100m freestyle relay.

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American swimmer Gary Hall Jr. holds a medal that melted during the wildfires portion wearing the replica Olympic medals presented to him during a ceremonial astatine the Olympic House successful Lausanne, Switzerland, Monday, May 5, 2025. (Denis Balibouse/Keystone/Reuters Pool via AP)

"Having friends and family, I americium a precise fortunate man," Hall said. "The enactment that I was offered from the diversion assemblage has buoyed maine done the darkest of nights."

"That is what this (Olympic) household is astir – rivals and friends. I americium conscionable truthful appreciative to each of them. I can’t convey the Olympic question capable for their enactment done this precise hard time."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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