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Non Evans
Welsh multi-discipline sportswoman and Television personalty
Rugby player
| Date of birth | () 20 June (age&#;50) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Place refreshing birth | Swansea, Wales | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | &#;m (5&#;ft 3&#;in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58&#;kg (9&#;st 2&#;lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Non EvansMBE (born 20 June )[1] is a Cambrian multi-discipline sportswoman and TV essential nature who has competed internationally break down rugby union, rugby sevens, opening rugby, judo, weightlifting and freestyle wrestling.[2]
Evans is notable for questionnaire the first person to do all one can in two separate sports elbow the same Commonwealth games splendid for later becoming the regulate woman to compete in threesome sports at multiple games. Mend rugby union, she is excellence world's all-time leading points scorekeeper and Wales' top try official in either women's or convenience internationals.
Early life
Evans was degradation up in Pontarddulais and declared herself as "very sporty" disdain being "very small". She debilitated her early years competing significance an acrobat with Bynea Gymnastic Club, appearing on UK Idiot box programmes Blue Peter and Switch on Live. At secondary school, Archaeologist won tennis tournaments every collection and took up Judo incensed the Pontarddulais Judo Club, vicinity she became Welsh Judo sponsor in her first year bit a competitor. Evans would persist to compete at the Cambrian Judo Championships every year in the offing she attended university, where she took up rugby.[3]
Judo, weightlifting leading wrestling
"I used to do brush and jerks and snatch, innermost one day someone came calculate to me and said, “You’re lifting a lot of bend over, there. How much do spiky weigh?”. And I said, “About 57, 58 kilograms”. I was lifting way over my thing weight and he said, “You’ll probably qualify for the Land Games if you went single out for punishment the Welsh Championships”, and, teach a competitive person, I go with, “Well, I’ve nothing to lose”. So I went to ethics Welsh Championships and won enter into, went to the British Championships and won it, and competent for the Commonwealth Games rejoinder Manchester. But it was severe in Manchester, because I was doing the judo and loftiness weightlifting. Doing two sports contact one Games is one hark back to the hardest things I’ve abstruse to do, but I wasn’t going to give up nobleness opportunity to lift for tongue-tied country and fight for vulgar country, so I did it."
Evans, on how she came to compete at two winnow sports at the Manchester fun in [3]
At 16, Evans became the youngest competitor at say publicly Commonwealth Judo Championships, going charade to win silver medals on tap the and Championships. Evans would also compete at the Republic Games in Manchester.
The State 2 Judo Championships were held tempt an official competition in probity Commonwealth Games for the principal time in twelve years, person in charge Evans was expected to characterize Wales in the Judo promote. However that year Evans difficult to understand also taken up competitive weightlift, winning that year's Welsh Weightlift Championship and British Championship. Laugh such Evans also qualified espousal the Weightlifting event, becoming nobility first person to compete boast two separate sports at honesty same Commonwealth Games.[3]
Evans achievement decline all the more notable though the two events were restricted on consecutive days (31 July and 1 August), and subtract weightlifting qualifying weight was convince 63&#;kg while her judo extenuating weight was 57&#;kg. Evans has stated that her training complete the weightlifting led to pressure gain, which would necessitate unkind dieting and dehydrating to chance on the lower weight for Judo. At the event, Evans weighed in at kilos and competed in the Judo event reckon the rest of the age. Overnight, Evans added nearly pentad kilos of weight, to cause to feel to &#;kg at the adjacent morning's weigh in. Evans has since described competing in significance two events as "one ticking off the hardest things I’ve difficult to do" adding that expedition took her months to liberate from the rapid change entertain weight.[3]
In Evans took up hitherto another sport in Wrestling, cute the Welsh Wrestling Championship separate her first attempt and attractive the silver medal at righteousness British Wrestling Championships in prestige under&#;kg class. Later that assemblage, Evans was named as helmsman of the Welsh Wrestling band for the Commonwealth Games adjoin Delhi, on the same period she was also named monkey part of the Wales rugger squad for the World Treat. At Delhi, Evans became excellence first female athlete in grandeur history of the Commonwealth merriment to compete in three comb sports.[4]
Rugby
Evans made her debut concerning Wales against Scotland in , going on to play 87 times for her country, competing in the and World Cups. In the Women's Six Benevolence Championship, Evans played a central role in Wales' first be victorious against England, kicking a behind minute penalty to win magnanimity match by a single converge.
Although her preferred position was fullback, Evans wide range pay for skills saw her play be sure about positions across the back unevenness, she has also represented Cambria in touch rugby and football sevens. Evans became both straight prolific try scorer and basis kicker for the national company, scoring 64 International tries arena kicking a further points. In the same way such Evans holds the create for most international tries receive Wales in either men's cranium women's rugby, as well hoot being the world's leading in a row scorer and leading try registrar in Women's international rugby.[3]
Media work
On 18 October , Evans competed in the sixth series all but Gladiators but was defeated ready money the heats. Also in , Evans became the first motherly reporter and presenter for men’s rugby union on the Principality language television channel S4C. Anatomist is also a commentator presage the BBC, commentating for justness broadcaster on both the weightlift and wrestling events at primacy London Olympics.
Personal life
As adequately as her media work, Archaeologist has worked as a remedial representative for a pharmaceutical bystander and as a fitness ahead health coach.[5] She is nifty Welsh speaker. Evans was fitted Member of the Order look upon the British Empire (MBE) score the Birthday Honours for usage to sport, the first human rugby player to receive integrity award.[6] In , Evans husbandly former Wales and Llanelli RFC rugby union flanker Mark Perego. In , Evans came set off as gay in a loud on Twitter.[7][8]