Bromham designer Mark Wilkinson has created the trophy for the Royal Parks Commission’s half marathon, due to be held in London on Sunday October 10.
Mr Wilkinson, the founder with his wife Cynthia of Mark Wilkinson Furniture, was commissioned to design and make the prize, sculpted from a piece of Burr Oak that Mr Wilkinson found during a visit to the London Parks.
It is finished in gold leaf.
The race, which has raised over £4.5 million for charities in the past two years, starts and finishes in Hyde Park and winds its way past Buckingham Palace and through Kensington Gardens, St James Park and Green Park.
A spokesman for the organisers said: “Mark has a following where all agree he is the best when it comes to quality, design and workmanship.
“Mark’s pieces are all individually breathtaking with a perfect blend of integrity and passion, along with a love of proportion.”
Gazette and Herald - Thursday 26th August 2010