1️⃣ Product Description 

This Champ de Mars finisher medal is engineered as a layered city portrait with true openwork rather than a flat disc. The body is die-cast in eco-friendly zinc alloy and finished in antique bronze: raised surfaces are physically polished to a warm highlight while every recess is chemically blackened, so the relief carries real depth and reads clearly in photography. The silhouette is an irregular round bordered left and right by Art Nouveau filigree scrollwork and stylised lily florals, filled with yellow, red, green and blue soft enamel that lifts colour against the bronze. Genuine cut-outs run through the design — an open gap separates the top skyline row from the semicircular arch above it, a void is pierced inside the Arc de Triomphe around the runner's body, and small openings punctuate the scrollwork. At the centre, a female runner in side profile strides with a high ponytail, her surface left smooth to contrast with the textured masonry of the Arc de Triomphe directly behind her, complete with block cornice and small sculptures at the pillar bases. Along the upper arch sit four Paris landmarks in the order Sacré-Cœur, the Eiffel Tower at the tallest central point, the Louvre Pyramid and a classical colonnaded building. The upper arc border carries recessed dark lettering reading PARIS INTERNATIONAL MARATHON | CHAMP DE MARS, and a navy blue soft-enamel shield at the base holds raised bronze text in three lines: CHAMP DE MARS, FINISHER and 2024. The medal hangs from a horizontal rectangular loop onto a navy satin ribbon edged with twin gold stripes.

2️⃣ Company Strength

Vistarts runs a 10,000 sqm manufacturing campus in Shenzhen with five production lines covering die-casting, openwork punching, edge polishing, electroplating, enamel filling and ribbon weaving under one roof. More than 150 craftspeople and a 20-person design studio support annual output above 600,000 medals, with single orders routinely scaled to 50,000 pieces. Because the tooling workshop, the antique-finish oxidation line and the enamel stations are all in-house, there is no external bottleneck between an approved mockup and a locked shipping date — a structural advantage for city marathons with fixed race weekends. Every Paris medal passes a three-gate inspection: raw casting geometry, post-enamel colour verification against your Pantone references, and a 100% finished-goods check with each batch photographed and archived against your PO number.

3️⃣ Why Choose Us

We are a manufacturer, not a trading intermediary. Fifteen years in awards production have made us the certified medal partner for Olympic Games and World Cup programmes, and our plant holds Disney and Universal Studios social-compliance audits — documentation that matters when a city authority, national sponsor or licensed brand is named on your event paperwork. Orders ship with RoHS, SGS, EN71 and California Prop 65 reports as standard, and recycled zinc alloy, nickel-free plating and RPET ribbon are available for races with published sustainability targets. Our genuine specialty is complexity: openwork cut-outs, antique-bronze oxidation, multi-colour floral enamel and multi-landmark compositions are daily work here, and the production piece is guaranteed against the mockup you approve.

4️⃣ CTA 

A finisher medal is the only part of race day your runners keep forever — make it a piece of city art rather than a souvenir disc. Send your event name, landmark references and quantity to Vistarts today, and our studio will return a free 3D mockup with a complete landed-cost quotation within 24 hours. No tooling charge is raised until you formally approve the artwork. [Email info@vistarts.com and Start Your Art Nouveau Medal Project]

FAQ 

Q1 — What is the minimum order quantity for custom Paris marathon medals? 

A: The standard MOQ is 100 pieces per design. Because the openwork die, the Art Nouveau scrollwork plate and the banner tooling are cut once and stored, a first-year race can order 100 and reorder 5,000 the following season at the same unit tooling cost and identical specifications.

Q2 — Can the Paris landmarks be replaced with our own city skyline? 

A: Yes. The landmark row, the central figure and the floral border are separate tooling sections, so the skyline is swappable without redesigning the whole medal. Send photos or line art of your own landmarks, mascot or bridge and our 20-person studio will rebuild the composition, then issue a 3D mockup for approval before any steel is cut.

Q3 — What exactly is an antique bronze finish, and how long does it last? 

A: Antique bronze is a bronze-tone electroplating that is deliberately aged: the raised surfaces are polished to a warm highlight while recessed areas are chemically blackened to create shadow depth. The finished piece is sealed with an anti-tarnish lacquer. Under normal indoor display it holds colour for years rather than months, and it shows handling wear far more gracefully than bright mirror gold.

Q4 — How many enamel colours can be used, and is the openwork cut-out fragile? 

A: We routinely run up to eight enamel colours on one face, with four to six being the cost-efficient sweet spot. Openwork is engineered rather than decorative — every pierced edge keeps a minimum 1.2 mm metal wall and is deburred and polished by hand, so the cut-outs are structural openings, not stress points. Medals ship in moulded EVA inserts inside double-wall cartons.

Q5 — How long does production take, and can you guarantee delivery before our race date? 

A: Sampling takes 7-10 days, including a physical colour and finish reference for your approval, and mass production runs 15-20 days from mockup sign-off. Once we accept your race date we reserve the production slot at deposit and ship by DDP air freight, so cartons arrive at your venue 3-5 days ahead of the first wave. Compressed schedules down to 12 working days are available on request.

Q6 — Are the medals compliant for events in France, the EU and the US? 

A: Yes. Every order ships with RoHS, SGS and EN71 test reports, a California Prop 65 statement and a lead-free nickel-release declaration. Safety breakaway clasps are fitted as standard so the ribbon releases under load, and our Disney and Universal Studios audits cover labour and social compliance alongside materials.

Q7 — How heavy is the medal, and will it feel substantial to finishers? 

A: The body is 4.0 mm thick and weighs roughly 80-95 g at 80 mm across — substantial in the hand without dragging on the neck during a post-race walk. A 5.0 mm body and a raised outer rim are available if you want a heavier premium feel, and the irregular silhouette with pierced sections keeps the weight balanced rather than front-heavy.

Q8 — Do we see the design before paying, and who owns the artwork? 

A: You receive a free 3D digital mockup within 24 hours of sending your brief, together with a full quotation covering tooling, ribbon and DDP freight. No tooling charge is raised until you formally approve it, and we revise until the artwork is correct. Your design files and the tooling remain yours — we do not resell or reuse race-specific artwork for any other customer.