About Geoffrey Turner
Lived 1907 – 1932 (aged 24). Geoffrey Turner was a British athletics competitor.
Ignatius Geoffrey Barker Turner (16 May 1907 – 2 May 1932) was a British athlete who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Biography Turner was the high jump champion of the North for five successive years from 1927 to 1931. He was selected by Great Britain to compete at the 1928 Olympics, where he competed in the men's high jump but was eliminated during qualifying.
His personal best of 1.93 metres set in 1929) propelled him to the top of the European rankings and to equal fifth in the world. At the 1930 British Empire Games, he finished 6th in the high jump.
He died of sepsis in 1932.
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Who was Geoffrey Turner?
British athletics competitor
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Geoffrey Turner was born on 16 May 1907.
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Geoffrey Turner died on 2 May 1932.
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Geoffrey Turner was an athletics competitor.
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