Jim Thorpe Medals Returned 2024 Medals. On this, the anniversary of the day jim thorpe won the pentathlon at the summer olympics in sweden back in 1912, indigenous wire shares some new research about a 40. The ioc stripped thorpe of his gold medals and erased him as the winner of both events a year after the stockholm games because he violated the olympics’ amateurism rules.

Attempts to have the medals returned were not rewarded until 1982, almost 30 years after thorpe’s death (1953), when replicas were delivered to his family. Lausanne, switzerland — jim thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 olympic pentathlon and decathlon in stockholm — nearly 110 years after being.