Freddie Owen (boxer)
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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | |||||||||||
Event | Bantamweight | |||||||||||
| Club | Dennistoun Youth Club, Glasgow | |||||||||||
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Alfred Owen better known as Freddie Owen is a former Scottish boxer who won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.[1]
Biography
Owen was a member of the Dennistoun Youth Club of Glasgow.[2]
A butcher by trade, he lost to Welshman Howard Winstone in the final of the ABA Bnatamweight Championship at Wembley in 1958.[3] He was subsequently selected for the 1958 Scottish team[4] for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he competed in the 54kg bantamweight event[5] and won the bronze medal.[6]
References
- ^ "Scotland's Top Five Commonwealth Games - Boxing". Team Scotland. 14 February 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ^ "Pete's Dream come true". Daily Record. 17 February 1956. p. 18. Retrieved 2 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Results". The Scotsman. 11 April 1958. p. 1 2. Retrieved 2 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Lindsay chosen for Scots athletics team". The Scotsman. 2 June 1958. p. 9. Retrieved 1 October 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Scotland Cardiff 1958". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 5 August 2019. Retrieved 2 October 2025.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2 October 2025.