On December 21, 2012 the Ministry of Communications and
Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue a set of 3 values “Games
of the XXX Olympiad, London 2012”.
Designer: Ivan Lukin. Printing: offset. 2 colours: bronze, silver,
gold. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforation: comb 14: 141/4. Size of the
stamps: 40x28 mm. Print quantity: 40.000 copies. The issue is printed in 3 mini
sheets of 8 values & 4 labels. Size of sheet: 140x137 mm.
The XXX Olympic Games place in London from 25 July 2012 to
12 August 2012. The Belarus team won 12 medals: 2 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze
ones. Sergei Martynov (shooting, men’s 50m rifle prone) and Victoria Azarenka
& Max Mirnyi (tennis, mixed doubles) became Olympic champions. Sergei
Martynov equaled the world record of 600 points in qualification and in the final
he scored 705.5 points, which is a new world record!