Leslie Jeffers
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| Nationality | British (English) | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 January 1910 Plaistow, West Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 May 2000 (aged 90) Middlesbrough, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Event | Middleweight | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Metropolitan Police | ||||||||||||||
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Leslie Herbert Arthur Jeffers (8 January 1910 – 4 May 2000) was an English freestyle sport wrestler who competed for Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Jeffers was born in Plaistow, West Sussex, the son of a London seaman who was killed during World War I, when HMS Hermes was sunk.[1]
He was a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police and was a member of their westling team. He was also a physical training instructor for Scotland Yard.[1] At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he competed in the freestyle middleweight tournament.[1]
He represented England at the 1938 British Empire Games[2] in Sydney, Australia, where he competed in the Middleweight category, winning a bronze medal.[3][4]
During World War II he was a Wellington Bomber flight navigator.[1] He was a five times British champion; middleweight 1936-37, and 1939, and light-heavyweight champion in 1940-41. He died in Middlesbrough.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Biographical information". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
- ^ "Sydney 1938 Team". Team England. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
- ^ "More Records broken". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 7 February 1938. Retrieved 24 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Empire Games results". Evening Despatch. 9 February 1938. Retrieved 24 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
External links
- Leslie Jeffers at the International Wrestling Database
- Leslie Jeffers at Olympedia
- Leslie Jeffers at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)