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Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||
Event | Bantamweight | |||||||||||
Club | Dennistoun Youth Club, Glasgow | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Alfred Owen better known as Freddie Owen is a former Scottish boxer who won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games. [1]
Owen was a member of the Dennistoun Youth Club of Glasgow. [2]
A butcher by trade, he lost to Welshman Howard Winstone in the final of the ABA Bnatamweight Championship at Wembley in 1958. [3] He was subsequently selected for the 1958 Scottish team [4] for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the 54kg bantamweight event [5] and won the bronze medal. [6]