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London 2012 Olympiad XXX - Gold Medal Winners

The London 2012 Games commences on 27 July and concludes on 12 August.  Royal Mail have announced that all Team GB Olympic Gold Medal winners will be honoured with stamps which will be placed on sale by midday on the day after the final. 

The stamp shown here is a mock-up using an image from a previous event.   The astute among our readers will note that it is the same image as used on the Welcome to the Olympics miniature sheet!

All the gold medal stamps are shown in the table further down the page. Larger images, and images of the miniature sheets, some FDCs, and one whole A4 sheet are shown on our blog.

Olympic Gold Medal winner stamp.
Miniature sheet of 6 Olympic Gold Medal winner stamps.
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Excepts from the Royal Mail press release:

Many of the selected 500 Post Office Branches will open on Sundays during the Games, so fans can celebrate Team GB’s achievements and start a unique and special 2012 Olympic souvenir collection. Details of the 500 Post Office Branches will be announced later this month. The stamps will also be available the next day at www.royalmail.com.

Team GB supporters will be able to buy the stamps individually or as part of a special sheet.

Technical details and dsitribution arrangements:

The self-adhesive miniature sheet is designed by True North and Royal Mail.  The template (base sheets) were printed under the control* of Walsall Security Print, but the digital overprint was applied overnight by 6 regional printers, at Preston, Edinburgh, Solihull, Swindon, Attleborough, and London.   The printing is in litho, with a digital overprint of the winner's image and winner and event details.  The phosphor is placed on the stamp avoiding the image area and the lower-right corner where the winners' details are digitally overprinted.

Exceptionally the printer in Preston was unable to print the last three sheets, GMW27-29 and offices in the North of England were supplied from Solihull.  Only the 'next-day' Post Offices were initially supplied from their nearest printer, while the next round of 4500 (approximately) branches were supplied with stock from Swindon.  Subsequently next-day branches which had sold out of earlier stamps were replenished with some stamps which remained unsold from initial distributions.  The only example we have definite evidence of was initially supplied from Attleborough and later received Solihull and Swindon-printed stock.   *('Under the Control of' may mean that Walsall and Cartor will both be printing the base sheet, or that either company will print the entire stock.)

The sheet will be 192 x 74mm with individual stamps 47 x 29mm.  These images show the stamp layout within he miniature sheet and the arrangement of 4 miniature sheets in the overall A4 (210 x 297mm) sheet.

Layout of stamps in gold medal MS.      Layout of A4 sheet of 4 gold medal miniature  sheets.

Product range - these will be offered in our online shop

Miniature Sheet         Individual stamps    A4 sheet of 4 miniature sheets     - these are produced by 6 different (over-)printers but we don't know whether there will be a way to identify the different printings.

First Day Covers - We were told that Royal Mail will accept customer FDCs until 28 September.  Covers for postmarking should be sent to Royal Mail Tallents House, 21 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9PB    

Union Flag Postmark for Olympic Gold Medal Stamps.
Dates and Postmark Reference numbers
(Other numbers were allocated to the other dates but as no stamps were issued they should not have been used.)

2 August - 12657
3 August - 12658
4 August - 12659
5 August - 12660
6 August - 12661
7 August - 12662
8 August - 12663
10 August - 12665
12 August - 12667
13 August - 12668

Medals won on 1 August - stamps issued on 2 August
Gold medal stamp rowing women's pairs  Helen Glover and Heather Stanning.
GMW01 Rowing, Women's Pairs - Helen Glover and Heather Stanning


Gold medal stamp cycling men's time trial Bradley Wiggins.
GMW02 Cycling, Road, Men's Time Trial - Bradley Wiggins
Medals won on 2 August - stamps issued on 3 August
Gold Medal Stamp Canoe Slalom Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott.
GMW03 Canoe Slalom (C2) - Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott.
Gold medal stamp Peter Wilson men's shooting.
GMW04 Shotgun, men's double trap - Peter Wilson
Gold medal stamps cycling team sprint Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy.
GMW05 Cycling Men's team sprint - Philip Hindes, Jason Kenny and Sir Chris Hoy

Medals won on 3 August - stamps issued on 4 August
Gold medal stamp rowing Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins women's double sculls.
GMW06 Rowing women's double sculls -
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins
Gold medal stamp cycling men's team pursuit Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke and Peter Kennaugh.
GMW07 Cycling Men's Team Pursuit -
Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke and Peter Kennaugh
Gold medal stamp cycling Women's Keirin Victoria Pendleton
GMW08 Gold medal stamp cycling Women's Keirin -
Victoria Pendleton

Medals won on 4 August - stamps issued on 5 August
Gold medal stamp rowing men's fours Andy Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed, Andy Gregory and Tom James.
GMW09 Rowing men's fours -
Andy Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed, Andy Gregory and Tom James.
Gold medal stamp Rowing  women's lightweight double sculls team of Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland.
GMW10 Rowing women's lightweight double sculls -
Sophie Hosking and Katherine Copeland.
Gold medal stamp Cycling Women's Team Pursuit Laura Trott, Dani King and Jo Rowsell.
GMW11 Cycling Women's Team Pursuit -
Laura Trott, Dani King and Jo Rowsell.

Gold medal stamp Athletics women's heptathon Jessica Ennis.
GMW12 Athletics Women's heptathon - Jessica Ennis.
Gold medal stamp athletics Men's Long jump Greg Rutherford.
GMW13 Athletics Men's Long Jump - Greg Rutherford.
Gold medal stamp Men's 10,000 metres Mo Farah.
GMW14 Athletics Men's 10,000 metres - Mo Farah.

Medals won on 5 August - stamps issued on 6 August
Gold medal stamp Sailing Men's  heavyweight dinghy Ben Ainslie.
GMW15 Sailing Men's heavyweight dinghy - Ben Ainslie.

Gold Medal stamp Tennis Men's Andy Murray.
GMW16 Tennis Men's - Andy Murray.
Medals won on 6 August - stamps issued on 7 August Medal won on 7 August - stamps issued on 8 August
Gold medal stamp Equestrian Jumping Team Nick Skelton, Ben Maher, Scott Brash and Peter Charles.
GMW17 Equestrian Jumping Team -
Nick Skelton, Ben Maher, Scott Brash and Peter Charles.
Gold medal stamp Cycling Men's Sprint Jason Kenny.
GMW18 Cycling Men's Sprint Jason Kenny.
Gold medal stamp Triathlon Men's Alistair Brownlee.
GMW19 Triathlon Men's - Alistair Brownlee.

Medals won on 7 August - stamps issued on 8 August
Gold medal stamp Equestrian dressage team Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin.
GMW20 Equestrian dressage team -
Carl Hester, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin.
Gold medal stamp Cycling Women's Omnium Laura Trott.
GMW21 Cycling Women's Omnium - Laura Trott.
Gold medal stamp Cycling Men's Keirin Chris Hoy.
GMW22 Cycling Men's Keirin - Chris Hoy.

Medals won on 9 August - stamps issued on 10 August
Gold medal stamp Equestrian individual dressage Charlotte Dujardin.
GMW23 Equestrian individual dressage - Charlotte Dujardin.
Gold medal stamp Boxing Women's Flyweight Nicola Adams.
GMW24 Boxing Women's Flyweight - Nicola Adams.
Gold medal stamp Jade Jones taekwondo.
GMW25 Taekwondo Women's under 57kg - Jade Jones.

Medals won on 11 August - stamps issued on 12 August
Gold medal stamp Canoe Sprint K1 Ed McKeever.
GMW26 Canoe Sprint K1 - Ed McKeever.
Gold medal stamp Athletics Men's 5,000 metres Mo Farah.
GMW27 Athletics Men's 5,000 metres - Mo Farah.
Gold medal stamp Men's Boxing Bantamweight Luke Campbell .
GMW28 Men's Boxing Bantam weight - Luke Campbell

Medals won on 12 August - stamps issued on 13 August
Gold medal stamp Boxing Men's Superheavy weight Anthony Joshua.
GMW29 Boxing Men's Super heavyweight - Anthony Joshua.




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This page updated 16 August 2012


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