Medal design for 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games in Lausanne released

Lausanne (RWH) The winning entry of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s Medal Design Competition for the Winter Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020 has been chosen. Nearly 300 design ideas of young people from 60 nations had been submitted to the  competition. The winning design is from 20-years old Zakea Page from New Zealand and is entitled “Beauty in Diversity”

The panel of judges, made up of Young Change-Makers, Young Reporters, IOC Member Danka Bartekova, Lausanne 2020 President Virginie Faivre and ERACOM (Lausanne art school) Dean Viviane Morey, also selected two runner-up designs. In second place was 28-years-old Johan Poizat  from France, with his design “The Star of the Alps is You”. In third position was 30-years-old Mishael Jacob Pueblas from the Philippines, with a design called “Wings of a Champion”.