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Jamie Crombie

Canadian squash player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ16195961
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Jamie Crombie (born September 13, 1965 in Vermont, United States) is a former professional male squash player who represented Canada and later the United States during his career. He represented Canada at the World Team Squash Championships in each of 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1995. He reached a career-high PSA ranking of World No. 32 in March 1995.

He was a member of the Canadian National Team for a remarkable 15 years from 1984 to 1999. In 1993 at the Pan American Championships he won the Individual Gold (and Team Silver) and in 1995 at the Pan American Games he won the Individual Bronze and the Team Gold along with Gary Waite, Jonathon Power and Sabir Butt. Once more at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg Jamie helped Canada win Team Gold along with Graham Ryding and Kelly Patrick.

Jamie then moved to the United States where he became a member of the US National Team for another 4 years from 2003 to 2006 for a total of 19 years playing at the National Team level.

In 2005 he helped Team USA reach Silver at the Pan American Championships in El Salvador and he won Gold in the World Master Games Men's Singles 40+. In 2006, together with Michael Puertas, he won Gold in Doubles at the Pan American Championships in Colombia.

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“Jamie Crombie” enters the record as canadian squash player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jamie, Crombie and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1985, 1987, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-09-13. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jamie, Crombie and Canadian.
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“Jamie Crombie” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jamie, Crombie and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16195961. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1985, 1987 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from Jamie Crombie” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.