Maurice Voron
{{Short description|Former France international rugby league footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{Infobox rugby league biography
|name = Maurice Voron
|fullname = Maurice Joseph Félix Voron
|image = Maurice Voron.png
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|caption = Maurice Voron playing as wing
|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1928|10|12}}
|birth_place = Oullins, Lyon Metropolis,
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
|death_date = {{death date and age|2004|2|19|1928|10|12|df=yes}}
|height =
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|retired = yes
|position = {{Rlp|WG}}
|club1 = Lyon
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|teamA = France
|yearAstart = 1951
|yearAend = 60
|appearancesA = 26
|triesA = 5
|goalsA = 0
|fieldgoalsA = 0
|pointsA = 15
|teamB = {{nowrap|Great Britain & France}}
|yearBstart = 1957
|yearBend =
|appearancesB = 1
|triesB = 1
|goalsB = 0
|fieldgoalsB = 0
|pointsB = 3
|teamC = Rest of the World
|yearCstart = 1957
|yearCend =
|appearancesC = 1
|triesC = 0
|goalsC = 0
|fieldgoalsC = 0
|pointsC = 0
|updated = 17 January 2021
|source = {{Rugby league records |id=9798 |title=Maurice Voron |access-date=29 November 2024}}
}}
Maurice Voron (1928-2004) was a French rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s.{{cite web|title=Maurice Voron|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/maurice-voron/summary.html|work=rugbyleagueproject.org|publisher=Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates|accessdate=31 August 2013}}
Career
Voron mostly played for Lyon for most of his club career.
He had 27 caps for France national rugby league team, from 1951 to 1960, playing at the 1954 and 1957 Rugby League World Cups and touring Australasia.{{Cite book|last=Mouret|first=Aimé|title=Le Who's who du rugby à XIII|publisher=Éditions de l'Ixcea|year=2011|isbn=978-2-84918-118-8|chapter= Voron, Maurice|location=Toulouse|pages=279}}{{cite book| last=John Coffey, Bernie Wood| title=100 years: Māori rugby league, 1908-2008| publisher=Huia Publishers| year=2008| pages=145| isbn=9781869693312}} A three-quarter, in 1988 he was inducted into the International Rugby League Hall of Fame.
During the 1959–60 Kangaroo tour's French leg, Voron was selected to play in the first of two Tests for France on the wing.
Outside the game, he worked as journalist in Aveyron.
References
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{{France 1954 Rugby League World Cup squad}}
{{France 1957 Rugby League World Cup squad}}
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Category:France national rugby league team players
Category:French rugby league players
Category:Lyon Villeurbanne XIII players
Category:Sportspeople from Oullins
Category:Rugby league players from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
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