Gold Post Box For Gold Medalist Jason Kenny - Bolton, UK
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This is one of a number of post boxes that have been painted gold to celebrate British gold medal winners at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics.
Waymark Code: WMRAB6
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/31/2016
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"To commemorate British gold medal winners at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics, postal companies including Royal Mail painted a number of post boxes gold. Each gold medallist had a post box painted in recognition of their achievement, usually in their home-town. It marked the first occasion in modern times that the colour of post boxes in the United Kingdom had been changed from their traditional red. The project was launched on 24 July by painting the pillar box at Westminster Abbey, whilst the first athletes' boxes to be painted were in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland, and Penzance, Cornwall, England to commemorate the victory by Heather Stanning and Helen Glover in the women's coxless pair rowing. In addition to the post boxes a first class stamp depicting each medal winning individual or team was produced. On 2 November 2012 it was announced that the gold postboxes would retain their new colour permanently and would be marked with their associated athlete on a plaque."
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"This box commemorates the achievement of Jason Francis Kenny, OBE (born 23 March 1988[2]) is an English track cyclist, specialising in the individual and team sprints. After winning multiple World and European Junior titles in 2006 and achieving medals in the under 23 European championships in 2007, Kenny was selected ahead of Ross Edgar to compete for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[3] Along with Chris Hoy and Jamie Staff, he won a gold medal in the team sprint, breaking the world record in the qualifying round.[4] He finished behind team-mate Chris Hoy in the final of the individual sprint, gaining a silver medal.
In January 2012, he gained his first world championship title, after Grégory Baugé's results were nullified after a backdated 12-month ban for missing a drugs test, and the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) promoted Kenny to the gold medal.[5][6] At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he won gold medals in both the team sprint and in the individual sprint, beating Baugé in the final."
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The plaque on this post box is as follows.
This post box has been painted
gold by Royal Mail to celebrate
Jason Kenny
Gold Medal winner
London 2012 Olympic Games
Cycling: Track - Men's Sprint
The plaque also has the same text in braille.
The post box is situated on Churchgate in the centre of Bolton.
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