Editing Harold Abrahams (section)

==Honours==
[[Image:Harold Abrahams plaque unveiling.jpg|thumb|right|Abrahams' daughter Sue Pottle unveiling the [[English Heritage]] [[Blue plaque]] commemorating Abrahams in Golders Green]]

Abrahams was appointed a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in 1957.<ref name="Oxbury"/> Abrahams has been recognised with an [[English Heritage]] [[Blue plaque]] at his former home in [[Golders Green]] in northwest London, which was unveiled by his daughter Sue Pottle and nephew Tony Abrahams. Abrahams lived at Hodford Lodge, 2 Hodford Road, from 1923 to 1930, years during which he achieved his greatest successes.

A plaque from the Heritage Foundation was unveiled at his birthplace, Rutland Road in Bedford, on 8 July 2012. This coincided with the Olympic torch relay passing through the town.

Abrahams was immortalised in the 1981 film ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'', in which he was played by British actor [[Ben Cross]]. The film won four [[Academy Awards]], including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]. His memorial service serves as the framing device for the movie, which tells his story and that of Liddell.

Abrahams was inducted into the [[International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame]] in 1981 and into the [[England Athletics Hall of Fame]] in 2009.<ref>[http://www.englandathletics.org/page.asp?section=847&sectionTitle=HOF+2009+inductees "Hall of Fame – Inductees 2009: Harold Abrahams"]. England Athletics. Retrieved 17 June 2012.</ref>

In July 2012, plans were announced to erect a memorial to Abrahams in [[Telford]], Shropshire, to recognise that before the 1924 Olympics he won a gold medal in the 100-yard sprint at the Midlands Area AAA championships at St George's Recreation Club ground.<ref>{{cite news |title=Memorial planned for runner |work=Shropshire Star |date=11 July 2012 |page=6}}The report only mentions the event taking place "Weeks before the Paris Olympics".</ref> The memorial, in the form of a plaque, was unveiled by Sue Pottle in October 2014 in the lounge of the club, which now possesses the medal he won at the event.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sporting legend is remembered |work=Shropshire Star |date=1 November 2014 |page=20}}</ref>

[[Norris McWhirter]] once commented that Abrahams "managed by sheer force of personality and with very few allies to raise athletics from a minor to a major national sport". Reflecting in 1948 on Abrahams' athleticism, [[Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker|Philip Noel-Baker]], Britain's 1912 Olympic captain and a Nobel Prize winner, wrote:
<blockquote>I have always believed that Harold Abrahams was the only European sprinter who could have run with [[Jesse Owens]], [[Ralph Metcalfe]], and the other great sprinters from the U.S. He was in their class, not only because of natural gifts – his magnificent physique, his splendid racing temperament, his flair for the big occasion – but because he understood athletics and had given more brainpower and more will power to the subject than any other runner of his day.<ref name="JewsInSports"/></blockquote>