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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British (English) |
| Born | Edwin Bowey 5 January 1928 London, England |
| Died | 2016 (aged 88) Enfield, London, England |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Wrestling |
Event | Middleweight |
| Club | Ashdown AC, Islington |
Edwin Bowey (5 January 1928 – 2016) was a British wrestler who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]At the 1948 Olympic Games in London, Bowey competed in the freestyle middleweight category.[2]
He represented the English team[3] at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand,[4] finished fourth in the middleweight category.[5][6] During the Games in 1950 he lived at George Crescent, Muswell Hill, London and was a horticulturist by trade.
Bowey emigrated to New Zealand the following year and worked as a lumberjack but later returned to England to work as a gardener. He had an interest in yoga since the 1940s and travelled to India in the Sixties. In 2012, he was part of a photo essay on the 1948 British Olympians.[7]
Bowey died in Enfield, London in 2016, at the age of 88.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Eddie Bowey". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- 1 2 3 "Eddie Bowey". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ↑ "Bowey for Empire Games". Evening News (London). 12 November 1949. Retrieved 14 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Jack Archer will fly to Games". Nottingham Journal. 7 December 1949. Retrieved 14 September 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
- ↑ "1950 Athletes". Team England.
- ↑ "Photo essay: Britain's 1948 Olympians today". Independent.co.uk. 15 June 2012.
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