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==Awards and recognition== [[File:Percy Williams statue.jpg|thumb|right|A close up of the statue of Williams which is located outside [[BC Place]] stadium in Vancouver.]] In 1950, Williams was proclaimed by a Canadian press poll as Canada's greatest track athlete of the first half of the century, which was later updated in 1972 to declare him Canada's all-time greatest Olympic athlete.<ref name="Sears2015">{{cite book|author=Edward S. Sears|title=Running Through the Ages, 2d ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UMDeCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA154|date=23 June 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2086-2|pages=154β}}</ref> Percy Williams Junior Public School located in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], is named after Williams.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/percywilliams/About-Us |title=Percy Williams Junior Public School |access-date=2017-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824093605/http://schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/percywilliams/About-Us |archive-date=2017-08-24 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1996, [[Canada Post]] released a postage stamp of Percy Williams as part of its "Sporting Heroes" series.<ref>{{cite web|title=OTD: Percy Williams born in Vancouver|url=https://canadianstampnews.com/otd-percy-williams-born-vancouver/|publisher=canadianstampnews.com|access-date=3 August 2018|date=19 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180804045706/https://canadianstampnews.com/otd-percy-williams-born-vancouver/|archive-date=4 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Outside the BC Sports Hall of Fame at [[BC Place]] is a life-sized statue of Williams, crouched in a sprinter's stance.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vancouver History: Percy Williams|url=https://miss604.com/2012/07/vancouver-history-percy-williams.html|publisher=miss604.com|access-date=3 August 2018|author=Rebecca Bollwitt|date=31 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803223956/https://miss604.com/2012/07/vancouver-history-percy-williams.html|archive-date=3 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
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