Cross Country Medal Hanger

Mud, hills, and a medal every other weekend

Cross country runs a race a fortnight through the winter, league fixtures on top, and championships at the end. It's one of the highest-volume medal sports there is, and the medals are usually small and plain — which means a lot of them fit in a small space.

That works in your favour here. A 60 cm rail that holds thirty road-race medals will take considerably more cross country ones, because the ribbons are narrower.

The other thing about cross country: the medals are often the only physical record of a race that had no chip timing and no photographs. That makes the wall more of an archive than a trophy cabinet.

This medal holder comes in the widths listed here. For a gift, err wide — nobody has ever complained about too much room.

Size & capacity

Not sure which size?

A race a fortnight through the winter. Count the seasons, not the medals — twenty a year is normal.

The steel, and why it matters

Every medal display in the range is AISI 304 — the same grade used for kitchen surfaces and marine fittings — at 2.5-3 mm depending on width. It doesn't rust, doesn't chip, and doesn't need looking after.

The bar is continuous. That's the whole difference from a hook rack: hooks give you a fixed count, a rail gives you a length.

Fitting it to the wall

Comes with stainless standoffs, fixings and a paper drilling template. On plasterboard use proper anchors rather than the plugs supplied — a full display is heavier than it looks.

When it fills up

A second unit mounts flush against the first, so the wall still reads as one piece rather than two things hung near each other. The widest version holds up to 110 medals across three rails.

Delivery

Every medal display is cut and finished in our own workshop and dispatched within 3–5 working days. Returns accepted for fourteen days.