578Gwyn Evans
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GwynEvans

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Age67
Weight79KG
Height1.80M
  • Date of Birth06 / 09 / 1957
  • Lions Tours1983
  • International CapsWales / Lions
  • Lions Origin SchoolsMaesteg GS
  • Lions Origin ClubsMaesteg, Welsh Academicals, Barbarians, Crawshays

Gwyn Evans will perhaps not go down as one of the most vaunted players to ever pull on a Lions Jersey, but his peers were in full admiration of the Wales full-back.

Evans, who played for hometown club Maesteg for his entire domestic career, won the Welsh Rugby Writers Player of the Year in 1982 after a spectacular season.

He made 50 Test points faster than any Wales player in history – reaching the amount on his fifth start – and kicked a then world record six penalties in a 22-12 win over France.

As such, a year later he was christened a Lion and started at full-back for the last two Tests in New Zealand, scoring a penalty in the latter, while also notably bagging a try-double against Wairarapa/Bush.