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1st Place Medal Emoji 🥇

A gold medal on a ribbon, stamped with a '1', the 1st-place-medal emoji is a more personal cousin of the trophy. It's awarded to a person rather than a team or event, ranking someone or something as the actual best, first out of everyone, no tie for the top spot.

What 🥇 means

A thin gold disk with the number '1' embossed onto it in the same color and material, while the entire disk hangs with a loop stitched onto a blue, white, and red strap.

The 🥇 First Place Medal represents the winner, objectively in a game or subjectively, in a way that everyone's a winner. It signifies being a champion, aiming high, being the best, and being number 1.

How and when to use it

Does someone share the same experience or attribute as you? Then, you could use 🥇 as a way of saying "It happens to the best of us". For example, "Aw, don't be like that. The best of us get to choose our family and are not forced into one 🥇".
You could also use 🥇 while indicating to aim for the best or aim higher. For instance, "Don't aim for the moon. Aim for yourself. To be completely, fearlessly, unapologetically, yourself 🥇".
If any context has the word 'champion' or 'competition' or the essence of it, then too, you can use 🥇. Like, "Play the game. Play hard. There will be players better than you, worse than you, but none, you 🥇".
Use 🥇 while sharing a picture, video, or any form of content about winning, victory, in both, the literal and metaphorical senses.

Other Names

🥇 Medal
🥇 Gold Medal
🥇 Winner's Medal
🥇 Championship Medal
🥇 Medallion
🥇 Award
🥇 First Prize

The lowdown

Category: Activities › award-medal
Codepoints: U+1F947
Emoji version: Emoji 3.0
Shortcodes: :1st_place_medal: GitHub:first_place_medal: Slack · Discord:first_place: Discord
Keywords: 1st, first, gold, medal, place

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.