Antwerp 1920 The Victorious Athlete GRANDMOULIN, Léandre Joseph Ghislain (1873-1957) Gilded bronze, circa 1920 The Organising Committee felt that a medal was not enough. Each Olympic champion in the individual events thus received, in addition to a silver-gilt medal and a diploma, a statuette representing an athlete holding a laurel wreath, the work of sculptor Léandre Grandmoulin. The design was submitted to the International Olympic Committee, which approved it, and the mould was later destroyed, to avoid reproductions being made. Léandre Grandmoulin spent his whole career in Brussels and, after studying at the Académie royale des beaux-arts, where he trained under Charles Van der Stappen, he won the second Prix de Rome in 1900. A sculptor who also taught at the Académie de Saint-Gilles from 1922 onwards, he trained numerous pupils, including sculptor René van Dievoet. Léandre Grandmoulin created bas-reliefs for the Centennial Stadium (1930-1946), which was renamed as the Heysel Stadium (1946-1995) then the King Baudoin Stadium (Koning Boudewijnstadion). The Olympic Museum Collections