Sports Trophies & Awards – Rewarding Success With Classic Presentation Items

One can even go back to the ancient Greeks to find out where sports trophies were first given away to successful athletes. Those athletes that ran the marathon were rewarded with laurel wreaths and it was following on from the marathon that other athletic disciplines such as running, jumping, throwing etc gave us what we know  today as the Olympic Games. Trophies come in all shapes and sizes. One only has to look at the television at events such as the Formula One racing to see trophies awarded that are sometimes larger than the racing drivers themselves. Presentation nights on television where awards are handed out for various acting and show business reasons can be anything from the original Oscar to rather strange looking pieces of metal or plastic.

Football trophies are probably the most commonly used sports trophies of all in the UK. People would be amazed to know just how many football trophies given away during the season. It would amount to more than 500,000 trophies across the entire UK when you add up all the league competitions that are played. Additionally, it is now very common for all football clubs to give all kids trophies so that none of them feel left out. I feel sure that the children receiving the trophies are very pleased to receive them and the shop that is selling the sports trophies to the leagues are equally as pleased.

Standard sports trophies tend to consist of white Italian Carrera marble upon which a sporting figure is added. These figures tend to be made from Vac formed plastic and can be supplied in gold, silver or bronze, which is very useful if you have a three tier competition. Anodised aluminium engraving plates are usually added to the base of the trophy to be used to engrave the winners names and the competition details. Over the past few years more adventurous sports trophy manufacturers have begun to use different types of cast plastic different types of wooden bases and have tended to go away from the more plastic American-style trophies which are very large and totally impractical.

If you are looking to award some upmarket looking trophies then I would suggest you look at other materials such as glass, pewter, aluminium etc. There are a number of manufacturers who have bought out ranges of pewter cast sports figures, which are then mounted onto wooden or marble bases. The sports trophies look great and are always well received by the recipients.

Engraved crystal trophies are also very popular and these can consist of rectangles squares circles etc of clear glass that are then sandblasted with the competition details. More common lead crystal trophies would be in the form of vases or rose bowls except. Once again, these look so much better when they are supplied on a wooden base. BTC Group have a wide range of sports trophies, lead crystal tankards, and many other types of presentation awards.

Please contact our sales teams today for further details on all, sports trophies or for any other types of promotional items. All promotional clothing such as embroidered polo shirts, printed jackets or embroidered baseball caps.