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| Nationality | British (Welsh) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 January 1994 Mountain Ash, Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Harlequins (outdoors) Cynon Valley (indoors) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest world ranking | 4 (June 2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ross Owen (born 6 January 1994) is a Welsh lawn and indoor bowler.
He is a Welsh international [1] [2] and reached a career high ranking of world number 4 in June 2025. [3]
Owen won the Welsh National Bowls Championships fours in 2017 and the following year the triples, both National titles were won when bowling for Harlequins BC. [4] He was the National Indoor Pairs Champion in 2014. [5] In 2015 he won the fours bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. [6]
Owen bowls for Harlequins (outdoors) and Cynon Valley (indoors) [7] and was selected for the Welsh team for the 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Avonhead, Christchurch, New Zealand [8] and the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.
In 2019, he won the fours bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships [9] and in 2020, he was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [10] In 2021, Owen reached the final of the pairs and fours at the 2021 Welsh National Bowls Championships. [11]
In 2022, he competed in the men's triples, where he won a bronze medal and the men's fours at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. [12]
In 2023, he was selected as part of the team to represent Wales at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. [13] He participated in the men's triples and the men's fours events. [14] [15] Also in 2023, he won his third national title but first singles at the Welsh nationals.
In 2024, he won the singles title at the British Isles Bowls Championships. [16] In 2024, Owen also won the 2024 Welsh National Indoor singles & triples, which qualified him to represent Wales at the 2025 World Bowls Indoor Championships. [17] Subsequently in 2025, Owen paired with Lauren Gowen won the silver medal in the mixed pairs event at the 2025 World Bowls Indoor Championships in Aberdeen. [18]
