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March saw the M1 Medal sell the best. This is a multi-purpose medal, meaning it can be used for lots of different sports and events as it has space for a 1 inch centre. These are always a very popular Medal as they are over 3 mm thick and 50mm wide.
30 March 2012
Both Spurs and Everton made their way into the FA Cup Semi Finals with convincing wins last night. Spurs beat Bolton at home and Everton beat Sunderland to set up a merseyside derby with Liverpool. Both matches will take place on the 14th and 15th April at Wembley and these matches will decide who will be in the final to play for the FA cup Trophy.
28 March 2012
Last night it looked like Manchester United were set to take a firm hold on winning the Premiership Trophy, that was until Mr Tevez came on and brought Manchester City right back into the race for the prestigious Trophy.
22 March 2012
In this article we will be detailing how giving a Trophy can build confidence in people in all walks of life from sport, to school and in business. Giving Trophies and Awards is common practice in sport and in schools and we are going to look at how this can change the way people think and belief in themselves.
16 March 2012
Rory took him to the number one spot ion world golf on Sunday after his great win in Florida. He won a fantastic Crystal Golf Award which I’m sure he will treasure for years to come. The Trophy is over 50cm tall as is a fully cut crystal worth around £10 000. This is not bad, but I’m sure he prefers the winners cheque! He now aims to keep the number one spot who he has one off English Golfer Luke Donald.
07 March 2012
The 2012 Football League Cup Final was the final match of the 2011–12 Football League Cup, the 52nd season of the Football League Cup, a football competition for the 92 teams in the Premier League and the Football League. The match was contested by Cardiff City and Liverpool at Wembley Stadium in London on 26 February 2012. Liverpool won 3–2 on penalties after the game finished 1–1 after 90 minutes and 2–2 after extra time.
01 March 2012
Juan Martin del Potro was beaten by Roger Federer in straight sets in the final of the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam on Sunday.
20 February 2012
The most ambitious exhibition of the artist’s work for ten years, Lucian Freud Portraits will provide an opportunity for visitors to see some of his most important portraits between 9 February and 27 May.
The exhibition will feature Portrait of the Hound 2011, the unfinished painting on which the artist was still working until shortly before his death on 20 July 2011.
14 February 2012
The 54th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 12, 2012, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles being broadcast on CBS. Nominations were announced on November 30, 2011 on prime-time television as part of "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!
13 February 2012
The winner of the first Melbourne Cup in 1861 received a gold watch. The first Melbourne Cup trophy was awarded in 1865 and was an elaborate silver bowl on a stand that had been manufactured in England.
10 February 2012
A single penalty corner strike by Silvina D’Elia late in the first half meant Great Britain’s women collected the silver medal at the Champions Trophy in Rosario on Sunday night.
07 February 2012
The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoffs champion after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously (chiefly by sportswriters) as Lord Stanley's Mug.
06 February 2012
James Ellington, a British sprinter put himself up for sponsorship via an online eBay auction, and has finally secured a deal to pursue his Olympic dreams.
James Ellington resorted to the unconventional method of attracting a sponsor on a website. (He missed out on fundraising opportunities due to injury).
18 January 2012
Today the most famous boxer in the world celebrated his 70th birthday!
The man once christened Cassius Clay from Louisville, Kentucky who beat Sonny Liston in February 1964 to win the heavyweight title and in so doing 'shook up the world', is today celebrating yet another milestone in an epic, monumental and thoroughly remarkable life.
17 January 2012
The 2012 Men's European Water Polo Championships will take place at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swim Stadium in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The championships, for men and for women, are scheduled to take place in late January and early February 2012.
11 January 2012
Nadia Elena Comăneci born November 12, 1961 is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world. In 2000 Comăneci was named as one of the athletes of the century by the Laureus World Sports Academy.
10 January 2012
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award (usually known colloquially as the Heisman Trophy or the Heisman), is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman
09 January 2012
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Two months short of her 19th birthday, she walked into a clinic in her native Minnesota for the third of three epidurals to help ease the back pain she had been suffering. But something went wrong with the procedure and she lost the use of her legs.Four years on and out of the depths of despair, Weggemann has become a record-breaking swimmer and will aim to mark her Paralympic debut in London with nine gold medals.
06 January 2012
World No.1 Caroline Wozniacki is still in the hunt for her maiden Grand Slam, while former champion Maria Sharapova is showing all the signs of returning to winning form.
05 January 2012
The Autosport show is a must-see event and has been running for 22 years! This annual pre-season Motorsport Event will be held again at the NEC, Birmingham from the 12th to 15th January, 2012. It covers over 1 million ft2, Autosport International is widely regarded as Europe’s largest trade-only motorsport exhibition.
04 January 2012
The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's tournament, although a women's tournament is also held. Its current sponsored name is The FA Cup with Budweiser.
03 January 2012
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an awards ceremony that takes place annually in December. Devised by Paul Fox in 1954, it originally consisted of one titular award. Several new awards have been introduced, and as of 2008, eight awards are presented. The oldest of these are the Team of the Year and Overseas Personality awards, which were introduced in 1960. A Lifetime Achievement Award was first given in 1995 and again in 1996, and has been presented annually since 2001. In 1999, three more awards were introduced: the Helen Rollason Award, the Coach Award, and the Newcomer Award, which was renamed to Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2001.
21 December 2011
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of two or four make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled. The timed runs are combined to calculate the final score.
15 December 2011
Figure skating tests a skater's control and balance but demanded lots of practice, patience and time.
14 December 2011
The Dubai World Championship is a golf tournament on the European Tour that was held for the first time from 19–22 November 2009 on the Earth course at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
09 December 2011
Michael Phelps (born June 30, 1985) is an American swimmer who has, overall, won 16 Olympic medals—six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at both of these Olympic Games editions. In doing so he has twice equaled the record eight medals of any type at a single Olympics achieved by Soviet gymnast Alexander Dityatin at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games.
08 December 2011
Gunnell started out in athletics with the Essex Ladies club as an accomplished long jumper and pentathlet, before turning to the sprints and hurdling.
Gunnell won the 400 m hurdles at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. She set the world record in the same event when she won gold in the 1993 World Championships. This record was broken by Kim Batten in 1995, but is still the UK record. Her defence of her Olympic title in Atlanta in 1996 was cut short, as she pulled up in one of her races, injured. This seemed a particularly cruel blow, as this race occurred on her 30th birthday.
07 December 2011
A rosette is a unique symbol of recognition and it announces with subtle dignity the affiliations or associations of your life.
The lapel Rosette has its origin with the Legion of Honor award, a special designation established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 to reward and recognize exemplary military service and civil merits.
06 December 2011
Usain Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter and a five-time World and three-time Olympic gold medalist. He is the world record and Olympic record holder in the 100 metres, the 200 metres and (along with his teammates) the 4×100 metres relay. He is the reigning Olympic champion in these three events.
05 December 2011
Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson CBE was born 30 July 1958 and is a former decathlete from England. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times.
24 November 2011
Linford Cicero Christie OBE (born 2 April 1960) is a former sprinter from the United Kingdom. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. He was the first European to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 m and still holds the British record in the event. He is a former world indoor record holder over 200 metres, and a former European record holder in the 60 metres, 100 metres and 4 x 100 metres relay. With 23 major championship medals including 10 gold medals, he is the most decorated British male athlete.
23 November 2011
The 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix, formally the Formula 1 Grande Prêmio Petrobras do Brasil 2011 will be the ninteenth and final round of the 2011 Formula One season. It will be held on 27 November 2011 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace.[
22 November 2011
"He was world heavyweight champion. He didn't inherit it - he earned it."
Joe Fraizer’s career lasted 1965 to 1976 with him completing 37 fights, winning 32- 27 by KO, with only 4 losses and 1 draw. He won gold in the 1964 Olmpic Games in Tokyo. He was born in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1944 who’s nickname was “Smokin’ Joe”.
15 November 2011
With all the doom and gloom surrounding the Euro zone its difficult to predict what 2012 will bring for Trophies and the Trophy Trade. Many company's are bucking the trend and growth is still on the cards, but for many who rely on certain sectors of the market the future few years could be concern.
07 November 2011
Motocross has been one of the most popular motorsports in the UK over the last 50 years, but there seems to be have been a drop off in the past couple of years due to the recession which hit and still effects many today. Motocross events and clubs across the UK have seen a drop in riders from clubs events to national series.
06 November 2011
Association Football -Surprisingly football makes it into the top ten most dangerous sports in the world. There a relatively high incidence of sudden death on the pitch and football players are susceptible to one of the most common serious sports injuries – traumatic brain injury. As one of the few sports in the world that brings the head into play rather than attempting to protect it, football players can easily suffers injuries that can kill when aggravated.
02 November 2011
Dunaden won Australias richest horse race earlier today and pocketed 3.6 million dollars. The Horse who is trained by Mikel Delzangles and ridden by Christophe Lemaire edged its English rival by a nose at the end of the 2 mile handicap at the Flemington Racecourse.
01 November 2011
The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987.The tournament was won by New Zealand's All Blacks defeating France in the final by a score of 8-7. South Africa, the defending champions, were eliminated by Australia 11–9 in the quarter-finals.
24 October 2011
New Zealand won the 1st rugby world cup 25years ago beating France. Nobody has ever retained the world cup, but if New Zealand take home the William Webb Ellis Cup on Sunday, it'll be their second time as champions!
21 October 2011
The Red Bull Formula One Racing Team won the Constructors Championship on Sunday with Sebastian Vettel’s 10th win of the season. Vettel won the Driver’s Championship Trophy the week earlier coming second to Jenson Button.
18 October 2011
Edwin Corley Moses (born August 31, 1955) is an American track and field athlete who won gold medals in the 400 metre hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) and set the world record in his event four times. In addition to his running, Moses was also an innovative reformer in the areas of Olympic eligibility and drug testing. In 2000, he was elected the first Chairman of the Laureus World Sports Academy, an international service organization of world-class athletes.
17 October 2011
Ski jumping is a winter sport in which participants compete on length and style on a jump in a ski jumping hill. As of 2011, the longest ski jump is 246.5 meters, set by Johan Remen Evensen in Vikersundbakken. Ski jumping has traditionally focused on a combination of style and length.
14 October 2011
Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy, (born 23 March 1976 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish track cyclist representing Great Britain and Scotland. He is a multiple world champion and Olympic Games gold medal winner. With his three gold medals in Beijing 2008, Hoy became Scotland's most successful Olympian, the first Briton to win three gold medals in a single Olympic games since Henry Taylor, in 1908, and the most successful Olympic male cyclist of all time.
13 October 2011
Tommy Hill won the BSB title yesterday at Brands Hatch after beating John Hopkins to the line by only 0.006 seconds!! Hill was presented with a magnificent Silver Trophy Cup by Jonathan Palmer the owner of MSV.
10 October 2011
The past weekend saw the end the pool matched and confirmation of the qualifiers for the quarter finals this weekend.
The matched are as follows:
Saturday 6:00am Ireland Vs. Wales
8:00am England Vs. France
Sunday 6:00am South Africa Vs. Australia
8:00am New Zealand Vs. Argentina.
05 October 2011
England are in the quarter finals and are set to face France on the 8th October, with Ireland V Wales, South Africa V Australia and New Zealand V Argentina.
03 October 2011
The half marathon has been running for 25 years now, and the current course takes in much of the original course when the race was first run in the mid 1980s. Runners head out of Maidstone through Bearsted along the A20, before heading up through the village of Hollingbourne and then onto the Pilgrims Way, before heading back into Maidstone via Bearsted Green. Previous editions of the race have started and finished at Mote Park or Oakwood Park. The current race starts and finishes in Grove Green, with race HQ based at the nearby Vinters Valley Community School.
29 September 2011
On the last weekend of September the Australian Football League Grand Final is played between the two highest finishing teams in the league. This year the event will be between Collingwood and Geelong. The match is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
28 September 2011
This weekend Mark Cavendish was crowed the World Champion Road Racer in Denmark. Supported by his team GB companions, Mark edged ahead of Australian Matt Goss, on the line to take the title. The course in Copenhagen covered 260km and suited Cavendish who becomes only the second British champion after Tom Simpson in 1965. This adds the title to 20 stage wins and the Tour De France and the green jersey.
26 September 2011
Victoria Pendleton MBE stands out as one of the highest achieving cyclist from the recent crop of British success stories in the velodrome.
23 September 2011
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The current world record holder of the 100 m sprint race is Usain BOLT from Jamaica. The record has been broken May 31, 2008 at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York, USA. Bolt ran 9.72s.
21 September 2011
Elizabeth "Beth" Kimberly Tweddle MBE (born 1 April 1985) is an English gymnast. Tweddle is a three time world champion having won the 2010 World Championships on the uneven bars, the 2009 World Championships on the floor and the 2006 World Championships on the uneven bars. Tweddle was the first gymnast from Britain ever to win a medal at the World and European Championships, and is considered to be the most successful British gymnast of all time. She is also a seven-time British National Champion, having won the title every consecutive year between 2001 and 2007.
19 September 2011
On Monday David Walliams completed his Thames swim. No not widths - lengths!!! He swam from Lechlade in Gloucestershire to Big Ben and in the process raised £1million for Comic Relief.
16 September 2011
Rugby, Tennis and F1 all featured in the sporting action this weekend.
13 September 2011
Today the Rugby World Cup started in New Zealand. The opening ceremony took place in the Eden Park Stadium, Auckland.
09 September 2011
Last night a glittering ceremony took place at the Grosvenor Hotel in London. The 12 nominations for the Mercury Prize performed to a select audience gathered from all area of the music industry. They then waited for Jules Holland to reveal the winner of the award for 2011.
07 September 2011
The Ruby World Cup starts in September and in October after 6 weeks of gruelling rugby, the winner will hold aloft the Webb Ellis Cup. The cup is named after William Webb Ellis who is credited with inventing Rugby Football in 1823.
01 September 2011
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Vettel won another entertaining Belgian Grandprix on Sunday. Yet again he started on pole after he beat Lewis Hamilton again on his final qualifying lap.
31 August 2011
As a Spurs fan this weekend was tough to take, but what makes it so much easier is that Arsenal also struggled against one of the Manchester sides. It seems that the prize of the Premiership Trophy is making some very rich men become involved in English Football. Manchester City are now looking like a team who could quite easily pick up the Premiership Trophy at the end of season, which is amazing considering where they were only 3 or 4 years ago!
30 August 2011
Steve Cram was another of Britain’s great athletic Heroes. Although he never won a Gold Medal at an Olympics he was a Gold medal winner in the World Championships in Helsinki, European Championships in Athens and Stuttgart and Commonwealth Medals at Brisbane and Edinburgh.
23 August 2011
With the London Olympics less than a year way Lord Sebastian Coe’s name is never far from the headlines. But back in the early 1980s he had to share the limelight with his great rival – Steve Ovett. Together they would create one of the most competitive athletic rivalries ever witnessed.
22 August 2011
The Barclaycard Mercury Prize (formerly the Mercury Music Prize) was established in 1992. It was created by the B.P.I. and the British Association of Record Dealers as an alternative to the Brit Awards. Previous winners include Pulp, Franz Ferdinand, Dizzy Rascal and M People.
18 August 2011
On Saturday, in the 3rd test, Andrew Strauss led the England Cricket team to a convincing innings victory over India. This took England to position of World No.1 test cricket side.
16 August 2011
Dame Kelly Holmes is one of England’s best female athletes of all time. With two Commonwealth gold medals and one silver under her belt from the Games of 1994, 1998 and 2002 Kelly went on to become the first woman ever to win two Olympic gold medals at the same Games at the Olympics in Athens 2004; setting a British record in the 1500M at the same time.
12 August 2011
The BRITs have created a new blank canvas' trophy which will be restyled each year by leading British creative individuals, making the trophy unique to each year.This year's bespoke statue has been styled by influential fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.
11 August 2011
With the Olympics just around the corner we thought its about time to start looking at some of the greatest British Olympians. Today we will be looking at the Medals Seb Coe Won in carrer in the Olympics. Seb managed to win 4 Olympic Medals in total.
10 August 2011
The World Music Awards is an international awards show founded in 1989 that annually honors recording artists based on worldwide sales figures provided by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). John Martinotti is an executive producer and co-founder of the show. The awards show is conducted under the patronage of His Serene Highness Albert II, The Prince ofMonaco, Monte-Carlo. Melissa Corkens is the co-executive producer of the annual special. Mark Young is the talent producer. Claudia Lang is the publicist.
08 August 2011
A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award) — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The annual awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely viewed televised ceremony. It is the music equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, and the Academy Awards for film.
03 August 2011
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Jenson Button has claimed victory in his 200th Grand Prix start, winning Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix from Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso. Lewis Hamilton, despite keeping fourth place from Mark Webber, was hindered by an incorrect tyre strategy and drive-through penalty after leading for much of the race.
02 August 2011
Aford Awards have just launched a new Crystal ware category to their website which includes Crystal Decanters, Wine Glasses, Beer Glasses, Champagne Glasses, Presentation Bowls and Vases. The range of Crystal found at www.afordawards.co.uk is now at its biggest with over 500 Crystal now available to be bought online.
01 August 2011
Find out what our top selling Trophies have been over the last couple of weeks
29 July 2011
England had a great win in the first test of the Series against India on Monday taking a 1 – 0 lead in the 4 test series.
27 July 2011
THE British Academy of Film and Television Arts is the UK's leading independent charity working with the film, TV and video games industries.
21 July 2011
The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in October 2007. Japan won the final against the United States on a penalty shoot-out following a 2–2 tie after extra time and became the first Asian team to win a FIFA World Cup.
19 July 2011
In a nerve tingling and emotional climax on Sunday afternoon, Darren Clarke won the Open Golf Championship at the Royal St. Georges course, Sandwich, Kent.
18 July 2011
This year in 2011 Royal St. Georges Gold Club will host The Open Golf Championship. The course is in Sandwich on the eastern tip of Kent.
12 July 2011
The England Womens football team went out on Saturday to go one better than the Men’s squad. Instead they emulated the men perfectly – and lost on penalties!!
11 July 2011
On Sunday afternoon we witnessed a master class of power speed and accuracy. Novak Djokovic eventually tamed Rafael Nadal in 4 sets 6-4 6-1 1-6 6-3.
04 July 2011
The British Superbike championship moves to Snetterton Race circuit for round 6 this weekend. T. Hill is leading the championship after 5 rounds from Shane Byrne. The championship is one of the UK’s finest Motorsport Championships and brings in 1000’s of fans from around the world to watch the thrilling racing
30 June 2011
Sebastian Vettel increased his strangle hold on the F1 world Championship yesterday with another victory. The Trophy he won looked great and was a sculpture of the outline of the race circuit which was made from chrome plated metal with inside of the circuit made from Perspex. The Base of the F1 Valencia Street Circuit Race is round and has the F1 logo printed on. Normally it uis down to the Race circuits to supply the Trophies for this event and I would say they did a fine job on finding a very unique and innovative award. I can imagine a lot of planning and design went into making this type of Award.
28 June 2011
Andy Murray continues his quest to lift one of the world’s finest Tennis Trophies today as he plays Richard Gasquet from France. In their last few meetings Murray has beaten Gasquet and he beat him at Wimbledon in 2008 in a five set match. Both players will be desperate to move on in one of the worlds greatest sporting events and give them the chance to get their hands on the Wimbledon Trophy.
27 June 2011
Wimbledon 2011 is in full swing, which commences 20 June and runs until 3 July this year. Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world. It has been held at the in the London suburb of Wimbledon since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors being the Australian Open, French Open and US Open. Wimbledon is the only Major still played on the game's original surface, grass, which gave the game of lawn tennis its name.
23 June 2011
After 3,272 miles (5268 kilometres) of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, 52-year-old Slovenian Martin Strel, aka the "The Fish Man", successfully completed a 66 days swim down the Amazon River-setting the world record for the longest swim ever recorded starting 1 February to 8 April 2007.
21 June 2011
You will remember from our last US Open Golf commentary that we alluded to a 3 Europeans favourite to win the Championship. Well one of them has made a fantastic start.
17 June 2011
The 8th race of the 2011 Formula 1 World Championship is taking place on one of the world’s premier motorsport facilities this weekend 10th-12th June 2011.
09 June 2011
The Hockey World, sometimes otherwise known as the Hockey World Championships, is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey association (FIH). The tournament was started in 1971, and runs every four years.
03 June 2011