Gold Post Box For Gold Medallist Jessica Ennis - Sheffield, 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: WMRXXF
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/19/2016
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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 Gold medal of Jessica Ennis (as she was then) for Combined Women's Heptathlon.
"Ennis won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the London Olympics with a British and Commonwealth record score of 6,955 points, beating silver medallist Lilli Schwarzkopf by 306 points and bronze medallist Tatyana Chernova by a further 21 points. At the end of the first day Ennis had scored 4,158 points, her highest ever first-day total, and was 184 points ahead of her nearest competitor Austra Skujyte. Ennis' first-day score included two personal bests: 12.54 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles and 22.83 seconds in the 200 metres. Her time in the 100 metres hurdles was a new British record and also the fastest time ever run in a heptathlon. It also equalled Dawn Harper's winning time for the women's 100 metres hurdles final in the 2008 Olympics. Ennis achieved another personal best of 47.49 metres in the javelin and won the final event, the 800 metres, in a time of 2:08.6."
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Since 2012 she has married Andy Hill and changed her name to Jessica Ennis-Hill. She had a son in Reggie 2014 and returned to athletics in 2015, became World Champion in 2016 and won a silver medal in the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, Brazil.
The post box
The plaque on this post box is as follows.
This post box has been painted
gold by Royal Mail to celebrate
Jessica Ennis
Gold Medal winner
London 2012 Olympic Games
Athletics: Combined - Women's Heptathlon
The plaque also has the same text in Braille.
In 2015 the Royal Mail celebrated the 50th anniversary of issuing special stamps A second plaque was added to the postbox celebrating this and showing a picture of the special stamp that was issued for Jessica Ennis. It shows Jessica in action during the hurdles race.
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