British wrestler (1928–2016)
Edwin Bowey (5 January 1928 – 2016) was a British wrestler who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
Wrestling career
Bowey competed in the 1948 Olympic Games.
Bowey represented England and won a bronze medal in the 60 kg division at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand.[3][4]
Personal life and death
During the Games in 1950 he lived at George Crescent, Muswell Hill, London and was a horticulturist by trade. He 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.[5]
Bowey died in Enfield, London in 2016, at the age of 88.[2]
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