How To Design Your Marathon Medal?

As the world ages, more and more cities around the world are hosting marathons, so do we all have to use the same marathon finisher’s medal？

No, of course not.

Just like the six World Marathon Majors, each city has its own finisher’s medal, and these medals emphasize the character of the event. After completing the World Marathon Grand Slam, runners apply to the World Marathon Grand Slam organization and are verified to receive the most beautiful medal of all runners, the Six Star Medal.

So, as event organisers, what kind of factors should we consider when customising our medals?

Ⅰ. Race Name

Almost all marathon finisher’s medals incorporate the race name into the design of the medal, rather than using a public template for marathon medals, which would make them absolutely cheap and not special enough.

Ⅱ. City Characteristics

Incorporating the characteristics of the city’s architecture into the medal design, more people can understand the city’s marathon, maybe the runner may not remember the name of the marathon, but he will be able to remember the city where the marathon is held (I’m sure).

Ⅲ. Crafts

Most marathon finisher medals use antique gold or antique silver plating, due to the fact that these two crafts are more economical and less likely to damage the plating.

Behind the rapid growth of the number of marathon parameters in China, the design of marathon race medals is also a very important part. From 2015 to 2019, the number of marathon race parameters grew from 1.5 million to 7.12 million, and the number of 2023 marathon race participants has returned to 6,051,900.

Here is a video, Let’s enjoy the aesthetics of medals from China.

Play Video about chengdu marathon medal