medal; award medal
A medal or similar award given as a prize; more formal and written-sounding than the loanword メダル.
Medals were presented to the prizewinners in the tournament.
The winner is awarded a medal and a certificate.
The winner was awarded a gold medal.
He won a silver medal at the Olympics.
賞状 is a paper certificate of award, not a physical medal like 賞牌, though the two are often given together.
counter for thin, flat objects; sheet; plate; coin · serving of soba; portion of gyōza · sumo rank position; wrestler at a given rank · field; rice paddy plot · palanquin bearer
A Sino-Japanese compound: 賞 means 'prize' or 'award,' and 牌 refers to a tablet, plaque, or medal-like object. The spelling is semantically transparent, but no specific historical derivation is implied.