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3 unusual facts about Billy Sherring


1906 Intercalated Games

Canadian Billy Sherring lived in Greece for two months, to adjust to the local conditions.

Billy Sherring

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.

Billy Sherring (William John Sherring; September 18, 1877 – September 5, 1964) was an Irish Canadian athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1906 Intercalated Games (or 1906 Olympic Games, as they were at the time considered to be).



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