Leslie Jeffers

Leslie Herbert Arthur Jeffers 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.
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. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he competed in the freestyle middleweight tournament.
He represented England at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney, Australia, where he competed in the Middleweight category, winning a bronze medal.
During World War II he was a Wellington Bomber flight navigator. 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.