Leslie Jeffers

Leslie Jeffers
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born8 January 1910
Plaistow, West Sussex, England
Died4 May 2000 (aged 90)
Middlesbrough, England
Sport
SportWrestling
Event
Middleweight
ClubMetropolitan Police
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  England
British Empire Games
Bronze medal – third place1938 SydneyMiddleweight

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 at the British Wrestling Championships; middleweight 1936-37, and 1939, and light-heavyweight champion in 1940-41. He died in Middlesbrough.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Biographical information". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "Sydney 1938 Team". Team England. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "More Records broken". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 7 February 1938. Retrieved 24 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ↑ "Empire Games results". Evening Despatch. 9 February 1938. Retrieved 24 August 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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