Harry George Owen

Harry George Owen (born 1993) is a Welsh former artistic gymnast and circus performer. He won a bronze medal in the individual all-around at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games and represented Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. After retiring from competition he performed with Cirque du Soleil.

Early life Owen was born in 1993 and raised in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, where he attended St Oswald's School and Greenhill School.

Gymnastics career As a junior, Owen won 11 medals at the UK School Games and became British under-18 champion on the pommel horse.

Owen competed in Germany's Deutsche Turnliga for TV Großen-Linden during the 2012 and 2013 seasons, including in the 3. Bundesliga Nord.

At the 2013 Northern European Gymnastics Championships in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, Owen was part of the Wales team that won the bronze medal in the men's team event with a score of 241.025.

He was named in the five-man Welsh men's artistic gymnastics team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, alongside Jac Davies, Iwan Mepham, Clinton Purnell and Robert Sansby, and reached the final of the men's individual all-around competition.

Post-gymnastics career After retiring from competitive gymnastics, Owen joined Cirque du Soleil in 2016, performing in the touring production Volta and later in Totem. In Volta, his first Cirque du Soleil production, Owen performed the Swiss rings act. He also founded underwear company House of Harry George.