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| Nationality | British (Welsh) | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 February 1941 Caernarfon, Wales | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Featherweight / Lightweight | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Llanrug Amateur Weightlifting Club | |||||||||||||||||
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Ieuan Wyn Owen (born 12 February 1941) is a former weightlifter from Wales who competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and four Commonwealth Games. [1] .
Owen was a member of the Llanrug Amateur Weightlifting Club and represented the 1962 Welsh team [2] at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Australia, [3] where he participated in the 60kg featherweight category. [4]
Four years later in 1966, he went to his second Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, competing for the 1966 Welsh team [5] in the 67.5kg lightweight category and won a silver medal. [6]
At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Owen competed in the men's lightweight event. [7]
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