It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon since May 2020, with its chapters collected in twelve tankōbon volumes as of January 2025.

While she practices in secret at her local ice rink, competitors her age are considered "too old" to begin seriously training; in addition, as her older sister's skating career ended in failure, her mother is resistant toward putting her through the same experience.

A fateful meeting one day introduces her to Tsukasa Akeuraji, a former ice dancer on the edge of giving up competitive skating himself, and he agrees to become her coach and help her realize her dreams.

[7] As a self-professed fan of Natsumi Haruse [ja], a voice actress known for her role as Kaoru Ryūzaki in The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls U149, Tsurumaikada tweeted in 2018: "I would also like to draw a figure skating manga that would someday be made into an anime, and have Natsumi Haruse play the main role!

[9] Written and illustrated by Tsurumaikada, Medalist started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon on May 25, 2020.

It is produced by ENGI and directed by Yasutaka Yamamoto, with the script written by Jukki Hanada, character design by Chinatsu Kameyama,[37][38] music composed by Yuki Hayashi, and the skating routines choreographed by figure skaters of retirees Akiko Suzuki and Yuhana Yokoi, alongside active figure skater Hinano Isobe [ja].

[39] The series premiered on January 5, 2025, on the NUMAnimation [ja] programming block on all ANN affiliates, including TV Asahi.