This Nike race medal is meant to be worn as jewelry

For its 2026 After Dark Tour, a nighttime race series of 10Ks and half-marathons for women, Nike designed a multipurpose medal that’s meant to be worn long after race day as a necklace, bracelet, keychain loop, or belt chain. It features a Nike Swoosh and chain adorned with miniature laser-engraved Swooshes that can fit in the palm of your hand. Each comes with a city-specific carabiner for the places where the races take place: London; Shanghai; Los Angeles; Mexico City; Sydney; Manila, Philippines; and Mumbai, India. Most finisher medals end up in a drawer, the thinking goes, but this medal was designed to leave the house. [Photo: Nike] “The Nike After Dark Tour isn’t a traditional race, so the medal didn’t need to be traditional either,” Elizabeth Brock-Jones, Nike’s footwear development director, tells Fast Company. The new medal was designed by an all-woman team, which helped get the details just right. “Because women led every stage of the process, we designed for things we’d experience ourselves: how it hangs when you move, whether it catches in your hair, whether you can open the clasp with longer nails,” Brock-Jones says. “We wanted something women would actually reach fo…

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