| Harry Jerome | |
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 The statue in 2018 | |
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| Artist | Jack Harman |
| Year | 1986 |
| Type | Sculpture |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Subject | Harry Jerome |
| Dimensions | 2.7 m(9 ft) |
| Location | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| 49°17′54″N123°07′09″W / 49.29823°N 123.11911°W | |
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]
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]
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]
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