Special prize for being 4th at the London 2012 OLympics

Sports-mad David Mitchell, 67, designed, commissioned and paid for the £10 awards made out of pewter, a metal less valuable than bronze.

The father of five, who runs Scarthin Books in Cromford, Derbyshire, said: “The timings from third to fourth are so minuscule, just fractions of a second, it seems so unfair.

“I just want to do a nice thing and let them know we’re proud of them.”