Ieuan Evans

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Ieuan Evans
Rugby union career

Ieuan Evans
Full name	Ieuan Evans
Date of birth	(1964-03-21) 21 March 1964
Place of birth	Pontardulais, Wales
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	13 st 5 lb (85 kg)
School	Queen Elizabeth Grammar
University	Salford University
Playing career
Position	Wing
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
	Carmarthen Quins RFC Llanelli RFC Bath Barbarian F.C.
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1987–1998 1989–1997	Wales British and Irish Lions	72 7	(157) (5)

Ieuan Evans (born 21 March 1964) is a former rugby union player who played on the wing for Wales and the British and Irish Lions. He is the 3rd highest try scorer for Wales behind Shane Williams and Gareth Thomas and 19th in the world on the all-time Test try scoring list. Evans held the record for the most Wales caps as captain with 28 until over taken by Ryan Jones in 2012.^[1]

Evans was born in Pontarddulais, Wales, and started playing rugby as a pupil at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen and for Carmarthen Quins RFC. At the age of 19 he joined Llanelli, initially while a student at Salford University. He went on to play in seven cup finals for the club, of which they won five. In 1997 he left Llanelli for Bath where he was part of the team which won the Heineken Cup in 1998.

He made his first international appearance as a right-wing for Wales against France in Paris in 1987. He went on to win 72 caps for Wales and scored 33 tries – at that time a record for Wales – and was dubbed "Merlin" by TV commentator Bill McLaren.^[2] Amongst his most memorable moments were scoring the decisive try in the 3rd Lions Test against Australia in 1989, being captain of the Wales team when they won the Five Nations Championship in 1994 and scoring a memorable try against England in Cardiff in 1993 to secure Wales their only win of that campaign 10-9. He made his final appearance against Italy in 1998.

He went on three tours with the British and Irish Lions, to Australia in 1989, New Zealand in 1993 and South Africa in 1997. His four tries against the All Blacks in 1993 made him the Lions' top try scorer.

Evans was awarded the MBE for services to rugby in 1996, and announced his retirement from the game in 1999 to run his own PR marketing company. He is also a regular broadcaster, and contributes a regular rugby union blog on the BBC website. In 2007 he was inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame.^[3]

References

↑ "Ryan Jones breaks captaincy record". rugbynews.co.nz. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
↑ "Ieuan Evans on Wales v England in the Six Nations and taking The Land Rover Challenge". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
↑ "Ieuan Evans". rugbyhalloffame.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2007-11-03.

External links

Wales profile
ESPN Profile
"Ieuan Evans". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-11-03.
"General Biography on personal site". ieuanevans.co.uk. 2007-03-29. Retrieved 2007-11-03.

v t e Wales squad – 1987 Rugby World Cup Third Place

Forwards	Blackmore Buchanan Collins Ph. Davies S. Evans James P. Moriarty R. Moriarty Norster A. Phillips K. Phillips Rawlins Richards Roberts Sutton Webster Whitefoot Young

Backs	Bowen Dacey J. Davies Devereux I. Evans Giles Hadley Hopkins Jones Ring Thorburn Titley Webbe

Coach	Gray

v t e Wales squad – 1991 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Arnold Collins P. Davies Davis Delaney Griffiths Jenkins Lewis May Morris Moseley Waters Webster Williams-Jones

Backs	Booth Clement A. Davies Emyr Jones D. Evans I. Evans Ford Gibbs Hall R. Jones Rayer Ringer

Coach	Davies

v t e Wales squad – 1995 Rugby World Cup

Forwards	Bennett J. Davies S. Davies R. Evans Griffiths Humphreys G. Jenkins John D. Jones Lewis Llewellyn Prosser Roy Taylor

Backs	Clement A. Davies Wyn Evans I. Evans Ford Hall N. Jenkins R. Jones Moore Proctor G. Thomas J. Thomas

Coach	Alex Evans

v t e British and Irish Lions – 1997 South Africa tour

Forwards	Back Dallaglio Davidson Hill Johnson(c) Leonard Miller Quinnell Regan Rodber Rowntree Shaw Smith Wainwright Wallace Weir Williams Wood Young Redman (injury replacement) Diprose (injury replacement)

Backs	Bateman Beal Bentley Dawson Evans Healey Howley Jenkins Gibbs Greenwood Guscott Grayson Stimpson Tait Townsend T. Underwood Catt (injury replacement) Bracken (injury replacement)

Coach	McGeechan & Telfer

v t e British and Irish Lions – 1993 New Zealand tour

Forwards	Bayfield Burnell Clarke Cronin Dooley Galwey Johnson Leonard Milne Moore Popplewell Reed Richards Teague Webster Winterbottom Wright

Backs	Andrew Barnes Carling Clement Cunningham Evans Gibbs Guscott Gavin Hastings (c) Scott Hastings Hunter Jones Morris Nicol Rory Underwood Tony Underwood Wallace

Coach	McGeechan & Best

v t e British and Irish Lions – 1989 Australia tour

Forwards	Ackford Calder Chilcott Dooley Griffiths Jeffrey Lenihan Moore Norster Richards Robinson Smith Sole Teague White Young

Backs	Andrew Armstrong Chalmers Clement Dean Devereux Dods Evans Guscott Hall G. Hastings S. Hastings Jones Mullin Oti Underwood Carling (withdrew - injury)

Coach	McGeechan

Authority control	VIAF: 77550579

Persondata
Name	Evans, Ieuan
Alternative names
Short description	Welsh rugby union player
Date of birth	1964-03-21
Place of birth	Pontardulais, Wales
Date of death
Place of death

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