Custom Race Medals | Antique Two-Tone Enamel Finisher Sets
$2.67
Die-struck finisher medals built the way race directors buy them: a hard enamel outer ring polished flush where hands and bags touch the piece, a soft enamel sunburst centre with polished spokes standing proud for depth, an antique two-tone silver plating, and a separate applied banner carrying your wordmark. Woven navy ribbon with edge pinstripes and a sublimated or screen-printed repeat threads through a bail and jump ring at twelve o’clock. One shared obverse die covers every distance; placings replate instead of recut. MOQ 100 pcs per design, samples in 3-5 days, bulk 7-15 days after artwork approval.
A race director buys custom finisher race medals by the headcount, not by the podium. When every runner across 5K, 10K, half and full distances receives a medal, the line item that decides your budget is the gap between a struck metal disc and one carrying real enamel colour. The medal in the photo is the colour option: a circular die-struck body in antique two-tone silver plating, a gloss navy outer ring filled hard, a sunray centre field filled soft between raised polished spokes, a separate applied banner riveted low across the face, and a small pennant element hanging beneath it. Every element reads at arm’s length in the crowded post-race photo line.
Two Enamel Regimes on One Face
Look at where the colour sits. The navy perimeter band is flush and glass-flat: hard enamel, polished level with the metal dividers after firing, the method that survives years of being shoved into gym bags. The centre sunburst is the opposite build – soft enamel, colour pooled in recessed channels while the radial spokes stand proud and catch light. Mixing the two on one die is deliberate: the ring you touch takes the scratch-resistant fill, the design field gets depth and shadow for free. Your wordmark goes in the banner zone in dark fill against polished silver relief, exactly as the sample shows, with your own lettering – nothing on this piece is part of the medal you order.
The Micro-Text Ring and Banner Zones Are Configurable
A fine engraved line repeats around the inner circle of the sample – a short tagline in incuse lettering between ring and centre field. That band is a data zone: sponsor line, event motto, distance, location. The applied banner below it carries the bigger wordmark, and because it is a separate struck piece attached after plating, its length and text can change between race distances struck from shared tooling. The swallowtail pennant under the banner adds movement when the medal swings, which keeps finisher photos from looking like flat washers on lanyards.
Ribbon Built for Ten Thousand Repeat Glances
The hang here is a wide woven tape, navy with double white pinstripes along each edge and a large white repeat print running down the length. Sublimation puts your full-colour artwork on polyester tape and holds through sweat and wash cycles; screen print does the same job for one or two colours at lower cost per metre. Print orientation matters at headcount: text angled to read when the runner turns sideways for a camera beats a horizontal repeat nobody can finish reading. Ribbon threads through a bail and jump ring at twelve o’clock, so replacement tape can be ordered later for re-runs without recutting the medal die.
Tier Distances and Placings From One Base Die
- One obverse die serves every finisher; distance text changes on the banner or in the micro-text ring per race
- Podium sets replate the same die in gold, silver and copper tones instead of recutting artwork
- Age-group and category markers move to the reverse: names and chip times engraved per order list
- Soft-enamel sunray centre as shown; hard-enamel or epoxy dome upgrades quoted against the same blank
- Plating choices: bright polished nickel or antique two-tone as photographed, black nickel and brushed variants on request
- Ribbon colourways per event weekend – swap tape colour between Saturday kids’ race and Sunday main event
- Headcount discs land at 1.5″–2″ comfortably; 3″ oversized builds quoted for ultra-distance features
Specifications for the Budget Sheet
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Product | Finisher and placing medals, woven printed tape included |
| Material | Zinc alloy strike-up; iron blank alternative per artwork |
| Size | 1″–2″ typical; 3″ on quotation |
| Finish & Plating | Antique two-tone silver as shown; bright nickel, gold, copper, black nickel variants |
| Enamel or Engraving | Hard enamel border with soft enamel centre field; reverse name/time engraving optional |
| Ribbon | Woven polyester tape, sublimation or screen print, pinstripe edges, bail and jump ring |
| Packing | Individually poly bagged in export cartons; per-distance case marking on request |
| MOQ | 100 pcs per design |
| Sample time | 3-5 days |
| Lead time | 7-15 days after artwork approval |
| Capacity | 1,000,000 pcs per month across our gift lines |
The number on this listing is the 100-piece reference rate; contact us for other quantities, and five-figure race counts earn their own lane quote before you commit.
Proofing Against a Race Calendar
Artwork approval is the only date that cannot slip. Hand over vector artwork – AI or PDF ideal, a clean PNG workable – and the free digital mock-up maps banner text length, ribbon repeat and colour breaks inside two working days. Proof medals follow in 3-5 days so your team can hold one under expo-hall lighting before steel is committed. Bulk production then lands 7-15 days after artwork approval on a monthly capacity of 1,000,000 pcs across our gift lines, which makes registration-surge reorders a phone call rather than a fresh tender. Directors of spring calendars lock files four to six weeks ahead of the start line.
Case Packing and Delivery Lanes
Finisher medals ship assembled on ribbon, bagged and boxed by distance and category so expo volunteers unpack straight onto registration tables without sorting. Export cartons palletise for sea freight when the budget allows lead time; DHL, UPS, FedEx and TNT lanes absorb the late-registration wave by air. FBA pick, pack and label prep works for race retail kits sold through Amazon fulfilment. Components individually poly bagged on request keeps ribbon prints crease-free.
Questions Race Directors Ask Us
How do you keep 20,000 finisher medals on budget without dropping colour?
Can names and chip times go on the back?
Will the sublimated ribbon survive sweat and storage?
Do we pay new tooling for next year’s edition?
What headcount can you ship before a spring race weekend?
Pages That Finish the Decision
If your event mixes race types, the sibling lines split the work: custom event medals covers ceremony podium sets with matte struck relief, award recognition medals handles shield-form corporate ladders, and commemorative coin builds show hard enamel border work for keepsake-edition purchases. Compare finishes across the medal category or step back to the whole metal crafts line, and start headcount quotes at the request quote desk.
Send registration numbers by distance, your wordmark file, and race day – we come back with a mock-up, a per-tier price line, and a die-cut date that holds.
