In the past I’ve looked at race medal displays at race expos and have always concluded that they either cost more than I wanted to spend, or they didn’t have enough room to hold all of our finishers’ medals…
For years we had our medals displayed side-by-side on a shelf in our library.
My friend Miles kept his medals hanging around the neck of a gnome on his kitchen counter for a few years…
But today Miles keeps them in a bag in his closet…
My Cruiser friend Jess hangs her medals on a small old fashioned dress form, and I think this is one of the cutest ideas I’ve seen!
One of my MRTT friends, Aileen, displays her medals in a picture frame, and I think this is one of the classiest displays I’ve seen!
So I copied the idea for my Ragnar medals…
And yet another MRTT friend, Céline, displays her medals and bibs together in this cute fashion. I love how her family writes notes above some of the special races.
Another friend keeps her medals on a fancy tray in her bathroom! I’ve even heard of people draping them around a wine bottle.
And then I found this clever wind chime on Pinterest…
Or you could just dump your medals out on the floor every once in a while to remember your favorite marathons…
I put some of my overflow medals in a giant wine glass to set on the bar (photo staged on white background just for fun)…
As Bill’s and my medal collection grew, we needed an out-of-the-way place to keep them, and somewhere besides on the library shelf were they were a major pain to dust!
One day while shopping at Home Depot, I got an idea!
For only $10.37 I could make my own adjustable race medal display out of a cafe curtain rod! So I bought two…
First I hung two rods, one above the other with enough space between them for the top row of medals to hang freely…
And then, I hung our medals!
We have these hanging in our gym in the basement. It’s the perfect place to keep us motivated to work hard!
And of course the sweetest thing to do with your unwanted medals is to donate them to organizations such as the Special Olympics where they are recycled for children! I’m not ready to part with them yet, but someday that’s where they’ll go!
- Questions:
- Do you have a clever way that you display your medals?
- Have you ever donated your medals or trophies to organizations to be recycled?
- What plans do you have for the weekend?
That is a great idea and very economical!! My hubby and I combined don’t have as many medals as you guys do. That is very inspiring! Have a great weekend!
What an awesome idea!! Thanks for sharing
Emma@ amomrunsthistown.com
You are very welcome!
Such a neat idea!! I am definitely going to be borrowing this as our race medal collection grows. Right now my husband and I have those traditional wall-mounted medal hangers (mine is a 13.1 and his is split 26.2 and 13.1). But we are quickly running out of space and clearly I cannot put my medal from the full marathon I’ll run in November on the 13.1 display *psssh*
Hanging the medals on a dress form is also a really neat idea.
HaHa! Hanging a marathon medal from a 13.1 hanger would be very bad form! 🙂
I remember you commenting about this display and I’m so glad you shared it. When I have a few more races under my belt I’m going to need to buy one of these rods to make a holder like this one. Thank you for sharing the picture. I never had an idea in my mind of what you did in your gym to display the medals… I just knew you did it!
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This is a great idea! I am going to use tie racks so that my twin girls can put extra medals in their closets. Like the last gymnastics meet, they received a total of 10 of the same medals
Using a tie rack for displaying medals is a great idea as well.