The medals that Bermuda’s young athletes will compete for at the Junior Pan American Games in Paraguay have been unveiled.

More than 1,000 medals will be fought for at the Games in August with the designs revealed for the first time in a ceremony at the Ignacio Pane Municipal Theater in Asuncion, the South American country’s capital.

The medals are inspired by guarania, a genre of music created in Paraguay by musician José Asunción Flores exactly 100 years ago with the purpose of expressing the character of the Paraguayan people. This is accomplished by the slow and melancholic rhythms and melodies used in the songs.

The music is has been named as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, and the Organising Committee, in collaboration with Flores’s biographer Antonio Pecci and María Victoria Sosa Zárate, director of the Asunción Symphony Orchestra, came up with the design.

The front of the medal begins with the characteristic 6/8 tempo of the guarania and continues with the musical notes of Jejuí, engraved within the staff that circles most of the medal’s edge. On the back, the inscription reads: “Tribute to the Centennial of the Guarania: Jejuí.”

The Junior Pan American Games will officially open in Asunción on August 9 and run until August 23, bringing together more than 4,000 athletes from across the Americas region.