Eddie Bowey

Edwin Bowey (5 January 1928 – 2016) was a British wrestler who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics.^[1][2]

Edwin Bowey

Personal information
Nickname	Eddie Bowey
Nationality	England
Born	(1928-01-05)5 January 1928 London, England
Died	2016 (aged 88) Enfield, London, England

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]