Statue in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Harry Jerome is an outdoor 1986
bronze sculpture by
Jack Harman of Canadian
track and field runner
Harry Jerome ,
[1]
[2] installed at
Stanley Park in
Vancouver , British Columbia.
[3]
Description
The 9-foot (2.7 m)
[4] statue commemorates Jerome's running career and depicts the sprinter with his "chest thrust forward into the finish tape".
[1]
[5]
History
The sculpture was unveiled in 1988.
[6] Someone placed an Iron Man helmet on the statue without permission in 2015; reports attributed the helmet to mischief or a guerrilla marketing campaign for the pending premiere of
Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron .
[4] The statue's plaque was stolen in 2016.
[7] Toronto artist Moya Garrison-Msingwana's 2019
Google Doodle commemorating Jerome's birthday was "loosely inspired" by the statue.
[8]
[9]
See also
References
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a
b
"IT Application" . vancouver.ca .
Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2022-04-21 .
^ Fournier, Suzanne (November 22, 2014).
Shore to Shore: The Art of Ts'uts'umutl Luke Marston . Harbour Publishing.
ISBN
9781550176711 .
Archived from the original on April 21, 2022. Retrieved April 21, 2022 – via Google Books.
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"Avengers Iron Man helmet spotted on Harry Jerome statue at Stanley Park" . CBC News British Columbia. April 30, 2015.
Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved August 17, 2016 .
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a
b
"Vancouver's Harry Jerome statue gets the Avengers treatment" . Vancouver Sun .
Archived from the original on 2020-04-25. Retrieved 2022-04-21 .
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"This day in history: July 6, 1967" . www.vancouversun.com .
Archived from the original on March 22, 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2022 .
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"Legendary Canadian sprinter Harry Jerome from North Vancouver honoured on Google" . The Georgia Straight . September 30, 2019.
Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2022 .
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"Vandals steal plaque off Harry Jerome statue in Stanley Park" . Global News .
Archived from the original on 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2022-04-21 .
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"Running for more than just gold: Google Doodle honours Sask.-born sprinting legend" . CBC News. September 25, 2019.
Archived from the original on February 11, 2020. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
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"Harry Jerome gets a Google Doodle" . Canadian Running Magazine . September 30, 2019.
Archived from the original on March 28, 2022. Retrieved April 21, 2022 .
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