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. Sherring is thought to have inspired the founders of Panathinaikos to adopt the shamrock as the Greek multi-sport club's official emblem in 1918. References Jim Smyth, Shamrocks in the Greek Isles: Billy Sheering's Greek Journey, and Mine, New Hibernia Review, Volume 22, Number 4, Winter 2018,9-18. External links 1877 births 1964 deaths Olympic gold medalists for Canada Olympic track and field athletes of Canada Canadian male long-distance runners Canadian male marathon runners Athletes from Hamilton, Ontario Athletes (track and field) at the 1906 Intercalated Games Medalists at the 1906 Intercalated Games Canadian people of Irish descent Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)