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Charles Bowen (athlete)

Charles Guy Bowen (6 March 1908 – 19 January 1967) was a military officer and an athlete who competed for England at the 1934 British Empire Games.[1]

Biography

Bowen, the son of Colonel Charles Eustace Bowen of Ramsgate, became the national javelin champion after winning the British AAA Championships title at the 1934 AAA Championships.[2][3][4]

Shortly afterwards, he represented England at the 1934 British Empire Games in London, where he competed in the javelin.[5][6] At the time of the Games he was serving as a lieutenant with the Lancashire Fusiliers.[6]

In 1937, he married Jane Mathews and was posted to Sierra Leone in West Africa, with the West African Frontier Force.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  2. ^ "Finals of White City events". Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. 14 July 1934. Retrieved 16 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ "British athletes lose titles". Weekly Dispatch (London). 15 July 1934. Retrieved 16 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists". National Union of Track Statisticians. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  5. ^ "London 1934 Team". Team England. Retrieved 16 January 2025.
  6. ^ a b "Track Stats - Stanley Wilson". Nuts.
  7. ^ "Weddings of the Week, Bowen - Mathews". Lancaster Guardian. 29 October 1937. Retrieved 16 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.