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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Julian Gerard Creus 30 June 1917 Liverpool, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 September 1992 (aged 75) Granville, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Events | Bantamweight Featherweight | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Julian Gerard Creus (30 June 1917 – 9 September 1992) was a British weightlifter who competed at three Olympic Games.
Biography
[edit]Creus was born in Liverpool on 30 June 1917. His father, Barcelona-born Julio José Pedro Creus, had been killed two months earlier on 21 April when the ship on which he was serving, S.S. Pontiac, was attacked by a U-Boat. The Commonwealth War Graves record shows that at the time the family were living at 59 Kent Street in the Toxteth area of Liverpool. He competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London in the bantamweight event where he finished in second place. He competed at both the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne both at featherweight finishing ninth and equal eleventh respectively.[1]
He represented the English team[2] at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand,[3] where he won the silver medal in the featherweight event.[4][5][6]
Creus died in Granville, New South Wales on 9 September 2025, at the age of 75.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Profile". Sports Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ↑ "Weightlifting Team". Hull Daily Mail. 20 October 1949. Retrieved 12 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Jack Archer will fly to Games". Nottingham Journal. 7 December 1949. Retrieved 13 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ↑ "1950 Athletes". Team England.
- ↑ "Julian Creus". Olympedia. Retrieved 21 December 2025.
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