Ieuan Evans

Full name

Ieuan Cennydd Evans

Date of birth

21 March 1964 (age 53)

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

Rugby union career

Amateur team(s)
Position(s)	Wing
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1987–1998 1989–1997	Wales British and Irish Lions	72 7	(157) (5)

Amateur team(s)
Position(s)	Wing
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
1987–1998 1989–1997	Wales British and Irish Lions	72 7	(157) (5)

Ieuan Cennydd Evans MBE (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 joint 21st in the world on the all-time Test try scoring list. Evans held the record for the most Wales caps as captain with 28, a record only recently overtaken by Ryan Jones in 2012.

Evans was born in Pontarddulais, Wales, and started playing rugby at the age of 10 as a pupil at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen before captaining the team at the newly renamed Queen Elizabeth Maridunum School. When he was 17, Evans started playing for Carmarthen Quins RFC youth side before joining Llanelli two years later, initially as a student at Salford University. He went on to win five of seven cup finals for the club. In 1997 he left Llanelli for Bath where he was part of the team which won the Heineken Cup in 1998.

While at Llanelli, Evans gained a call-up to the Welsh National Side and 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, 28 of which as a captain, and scored 33 tries – at that time a record for Wales – and was dubbed "Merlin" by TV commentator Bill McLaren. In March 1994, he captained Wales when the team won the Five Nations Championship.

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