Sherring minus his white Fedora

William D. "Billy" Sherring (September 18, 1878 - September 5, 1964) was a Canadian athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1906 Summer Olympics. Image File history File linksMetadata WilliamSherring2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata WilliamSherring2. ... September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ... Modern day marathon runners The word marathon refers to a long-distance road running event of 42. ... The 1906 Summer Olympics were the fourth modern Olympic games, held in Athens. ...

In the early 1900s, Billy Sherring from Hamilton, Ontario was acknowledged to be the world premier marathoner. He had won a second place behind a fellow countryman Jack Caffery at the Boston Marathon in 1900. He also had won the Hamilton Round-the-Bay Marathon on two occasions. // Events and Trends Technology First flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. ... Motto: Together Aspire - Together Achieve Area: 1,117. ... The 100th running of the Boston Marathon, 1996 The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon sporting event hosted by the city of Boston, Massachusetts on Patriots Day, the third Monday of April. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ...

In 1906, Sherring was chosen to represent Canada in the Athens Olympic Games. However, it was left up to him, a working man with meager resources (he was a brakeman at the Grand Trunk Railway), to finance his journey to Athens. Sherring managed to collect an amount claimed to be between $45 and $90 (a clearly insufficient amount to travel to Athens), which he then bet on a horse named Cicely which luckily won with good odds. He arrived to Athens seven weeks before the Olympic Games and started to work as a porter at the Athens railway station. 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Grand Trunk Railway logo or herald The Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) was a historic railway system headquartered in Montreal, Quebec which operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, as well as the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. ... Athens (Greek: Αθήνα Athína IPA ) is the capital of Greece and one of the most famous cities in the world. ...

At the marathon race, the 98lb Sherring led almost all the distace. Prince George of Greece ran the last 50 metres of the marathon alongside Sherring. Sherring received a live lamb and a statue of Athena as a reward. When he returned to Canada, Hamilton City Council awarded him $5000 and the City of Toronto awarded him a further $400. Drawing from a sculpture of Athena at the Louvre. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Established: March 6, 1834 Area: East to West: 43 km North to South: 21 km629. ...

Upon his triumphant return from the Marathon, Sherring quit athletics and worked as a Customs Officer in Hamilton until his retirement in 1942.

After his death, his original claim-to-fame, the Around the Bay Road Race was renamed to the Billy Sherring Memorial Road Race, and Hamilton has since built a Billy Sherring Park to commemorate their most famous athlete.