This template is for including medal symbols in sporting event result tables, while preserving the ability for sort.

The {{Gold1}}, {{Silver2}}, and {{Bronze3}} templates support sorting in tables with one digit place numbers, while the {{Gold01}}, {{Silver02}}, and {{Bronze03}} templates support sorting in tables with two digit place numbers.

Simply insert the template where you would like to see the symbol. No parameters are required.

{{Gold1}}
{{Silver2}}
{{Bronze3}}

For tables where the sorted column contains only numbers and the above templates, sorting will work fine. However, if the column contains any non-numeric text, including the display value in any {{Sort}} templates, the sort function will perform a text sort instead of a numeric sort. To get the desired sort results it may be necessary to use the {{Sort}} template to specify appropriate sort keys to be inserted as hidden text in front of the displayed values. For example "{{Sort|9|DQ}}" displays "DQ" but sorts using "9 DQ".

Also, for text sorting to give appropriate results for numeric values, all values must have the same number of integer digits. Again, the {{Sort}} template can also be used for this. For example, "9" will sort higher than "10", but "{{Sort|09|9}}" will sort lower than "10". To support tables having where rank exceeds 9 that also have non-numeric content, the "{{Gold01}}", "{{Silver02}}", and "{{Bronze03}}" templates are provided. These templates yield short keys "01", "02", and "03". See the second example below.