medallist

noun2

1. •
   Someone who has received a medal.

   • Mark Spitz set a record as an Olympic gold medalist.
2. •
   An engraver, designer or maker of medals.

   • [A] skilled medalist and keen student of geography, Theophilus Lewis Barbauld had friends among the European intelligentsia and liberal nobility as well as potential patrons at the British court. — 2008