🏅Sports Medal Emoji
Generally, it means “congratulations on your achievement! ” People use it to show they recognize someone’s success and want to celebrate with them.
The 🏅 emoji represents a sports medal.
- Unicode
- U+1F3C5
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :sports_medal:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🏅 Sports Medal emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
People also look for it as award emoji.
Sports Medal emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the sports medal has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Sports Medal emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :sports_medal:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3C5.
How to type the 🏅 Sports Medal emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F3C5 when there is no key at all.
Sports Medal emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Sports Medal emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around sports medal for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🏅, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🏅 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the sports medal and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🏅 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the sports medal lands changes how it is taken.
🏅 vs 🥇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Sports Medal
Code: U+1F3C5 · added 2015
Shortcode: :sports_medal:
Generally, it means “congratulations on your achievement!
Unicode name: 1st Place Medal
Code: U+1F947 · added 2016
Shortcode: :first_place_medal:
Means someone came in first or is the best at something.
Where the 🏅 Sports Medal emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the sports medal to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F3C5 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Sports Medal was approved as U+1F3C5 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏅 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.