Jean Pambrun (25 December 1929 – 18 July 2006) was a French

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

player who represented

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in the 1954 World Cup. His usual position was second row. He was born in

Mérilheu Mérilheu (; ) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or othe ...

and died in

Cabestany Cabestany (; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localisation Cabestany is located in the canton of Perpignan-3 and in the arrondissement of Perpignan. It is part of the Northern Catalan c ...

Playing career

Pambrun played for

Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...

and then, for

XIII Catalan XIII Catalan is a rugby league team from Perpignan in the Pyrénées-Orientales region of southern France. They were founded in 1934, and thus were founding members of the French rugby league championship. In 2000 their senior team merged with ...

, and made his debut for

in the

1953–54 European Rugby League Championship This was the fourteenth European Championship and was won for the sixth time by England. Results Final standings References European Nations Cup European rugby league championship European rugby league championship Intern ...

. He later played in the

1954 Rugby League World Cup The 1954 Rugby League World Cup was rugby league's first World Cup and was held between 30 October and 13 November and hosted by France and was won by Great Britain who beat France in the final at the Parc des Princes in Paris. As it was the fi ...

. He was capped for France between 1953 and 1957.

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