Glass medals made from PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Glass™ will adorn each participant in the 58th year of the Jizerská 50
For the first time in history, the trophies and medals for the participants in the 58th year of the Jizerská 50 have been made just a stone’s throw from the venue.
9500 medals and 50 trophies for the race participants have been produced at the Preciosa Ornela handmade glass production facility in Desná, in the foothills of the Jizera Mountains.
The experienced glassmakers at Preciosa Ornela produced the medals and trophies according to designs by the artist Matyáš Chochola.
Glass medals and trophies for the race participants have been produced at the Preciosa Ornela, that is part of the Preciosa Group.
The experienced glassmakers at Preciosa Ornela produced the medals and trophies according to designs by the artist Matyáš Chochola.
Document about how the medal and trophy of Matyáš Chochola were made.
A glass medal made from PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Glass™ will adorn every participant in the 58th year of the Jizera 50. Racers who achieve podium finishes will be able to look forward to glass trophies.
The glass medals made for the 57th year of the Jizera 50 event, which was unable to be held due to poor weather conditions, are impatiently waiting to be presented to the participants in the 58th year of the race. Glass trophies await the winners.
The glass medals and trophies underwent a number of production phases ranging from the initial moulding of the molten glass through to subsequent polishing, drilling, sandblasting and metallic surface finishing. Each medal and trophy for the 58th year of the Jizera 50 is an original.
A large number of experienced employees at Preciosa Ornela stood behind the completion of the medals and trophies.
Josef Kruml, a technical preparation employee at the handmade production department, designed and prepared a new moulding process for the medals, as well as a number of other smaller production steps. He secured the physical realisation of Matyáš Chochola’s designs.
Jiří Kobr and Jaroslav Šefr, both experienced glassmakers, were involved in the correct moulding of the molten glass. Lenka Pilařová transferred the mouldings to the cooling furnace.
The trophy and medal semi-products were machined and the holes were drilled in them by Lubomír Mičkal. Iveta Třesková deburred the rough edges of the drilled holes. Stanislava Szilágyiová and Bohunka Jakouběová were in charge of masking the medals and trophies prior to sandblasting, while Martina Sochorová did the actual sandblasting of the medals and trophies.
Dana Rampouchová performed the final quality control of the products.
The appearance of the medals has been enhanced by a surface finish in the Aurora Borealis shade, which the Czech artist Matyáš Chochola feels should enhance the magical experience of the evening lights as they cast long, colorful shadows on the snow.
Moreover, the medals will also be strung on a special cord that imitates a mountaineering rope as a tribute to the memory of the climbers from the 1970 Peru expedition.
Some of those climbers stood at the inception of the Jizera 50, which subsequently naturally became a memorial in their honour.
Racers who achieve podium finishes will receive the glass trophies.
Matyáš Chochola also designed the trophies, this time in cooperation with the Sport in Art platform.
He created the trophy using a plaster cast made directly from a ski track prior to the start of last year’s 50 kilometre race at the Jizera 50.
First place will receive an Alexandrite trophy with a metallic surface finish, second place will also receive an Alexandrite trophy, but without the metallic finish, while the third-place trophy will be made of colourless crystal.
All three trophies will have the same matt finish with an embossed surface.
The medals were created in a similar vein, but the tracks of a thousand racers are imprinted on them.
“We are pleased that the excellent glassmakers from Preciosa Ornela’s Jizera Mountain glassworks have been able to give physical form to Matyáš Chochola’s artistic ideas as a work of art that will not only be received by the very best skiers from all over the world in the form of the wonderful trophies, but also by all the amateur racers who manage to complete any of the nine races at the ČEZ Jizerské 50 in the form of the medal,” emphasised David Douša from the Raul organising agency.
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Preciosa Ornela’s representative team is preparing for the main race at the 58th Jizera 50.
Cooperation Preciosa Ornela and Jizerská 50
Glass tradition. Preciosa Ornela has produced new glass medals designed by Matyáš Chochola
Dokument o vzniku trofeje a medaile M. Chocholy
The story of the unique glass trophies and medals by Matyáš Chochola
Jizerská 50 with Preciosa Ornela - Preciosa-Ornela.com
Jizerská 50 with Preciosa Ornela - Jiz50.cz
The BEADSKI jewellery collection was created in 2024 to mark the Jizerská 50.
The main element of the collection is the use of material from carbon cross-country ski poles. These are real Swix cross-country ski poles that have been machined and then cut. For ladies, necklaces and earrings are designed where the main material from ski poles is combined with glass seed beads from Preciosa Ornela company and glass machine cut components. Distinctive bracelets and brooches in the form of an orders were created for men.
The jewellery for the Jizera 50 winners are unique pieces that have been created as part of this jewellery collection with the support of the Liberec Region.
Collection authors: POUZAR&OVÁ
Designed for the Jizerská 50 race
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