Object Details
- associated institution
- Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee
- Turner Industries, Inc.
- Description (Brief)
- Olympic relay torch with spun brass body is fueled by propane. The stem is encased in cross-stitched leather with two brass rings. The torch bowl engraving depicts the gateway to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. There is a filler valve and dust cap assembly at the base. There is a plastic zippered case with a stenciled striaded runner and torch in white at the top, which is the logo for the AOOC Torch Relay Foundation. 1984 Olympic Torch Operating and Safety Instruction booklet accompanys the torch; 10 pages; photo of lighted torch on purple and pink ground on cover. This was the torch the relay runners carried during the torch relay in preparation for the1984 Summer Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, California.
- The 1984 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in Los Angeles, California with 140 countries, 5,263 men and 1,566 women athletes participating. These Games were boycotted by fourteen countries, including the Soviet Union because of America’s boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. American Carl Lewis won four gold medals in track and field while Joan Benoit won gold for the U.S. in the first women’s marathon. Mary Lou Retton dominated women’s gymnastics becoming the first American to win the gymnastics all-around competition and the American men won the gold in the gymnastics team competition. With the addition of women’s only events of rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming and the addition of women’s events in track and field, shooting and cycling, women athletes were just beginning to see results from Title IX legislation of twelve years prior. The United States won the medal count with 174.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (through Carol Daniels)
- 1984
- ID Number
- 1985.0297.08
- accession number
- 1985.0297
- catalog number
- 1985.0297.08
- Object Name
- torch, olympic
- torch, summer olympics
- Physical Description
- plastic (case material)
- paper (brochure material)
- brass (torch material)
- leather (torch material)
- Measurements
- overall: 22 in x 5 in; 55.88 cm x 12.7 cm
- place made
- United States: California, Irwindale
- associated place
- United States: California, Los Angeles
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Sports
- name of sport
- Olympics
- level of sport
- Amateur
- related event
- Olympic Summer Games: Los Angeles, 1984
- Record ID
- nmah_681424
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-dec9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
