The Marathon of Mexico City 2024 or the biggest party of the runners, he saw the Kenyans consecrate Edwin Kiprop Kiptoo, Leonard Langat and Francis Cheruiyot as the absolute owners of the podium. Among the athletes' celebrations, the peculiar metallic medal that hung from a leash of an orange tone on. In the distance it seemed to be of a simple design: a rectangular metal plate with inscription. Closely, The medal had a more elaborate jobshowing what seemed to be a head of the snakes that are commonly found in pre -Hispanic constructions.
And that was just one of the surprises he kept The design of the CDMX marathon medalswhich were conceived as puzzle To form a metal map of the Mexican capital through the badges granted in the different years since 2019. Each of them also includes a relief drawing that represents some of the emblematic buildings or Tourist monuments of Mexico City, same that are appreciated along the circuit of 42,195 kilometers such as the Central Library of Ciudad Universitaria or the Palace of Fine Arts.
A tribute to the CDMX architecture
Developed by him Sports Institute of Mexico City (Indorte) and manufactured with a zinc alloy, the design of the badges gives continuity to a long Mexican design of design and sportdiscipline that has detonated great references at the global level as happened with the 1968 Olympic Games, whose image is still celebrated to date.
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Central Library of University City
2019
The design of the marathon medals was conceived as a kind of puzzle so that in each edition of the CDMX marathon, the participants obtained one by one the pieces. The first one was that of 2019, The tip of the urban map whose front appears the central library of Ciudad Universitaria, a reference of capital architecture that stands out for the Juan or 'Gorman murals and in whose vicinity the race starts. On the reverse you read «Marathon of Mexico City.»