About Yorrie Evans
Lived 1923 – 2003 (aged 79–80). Yorrie Evans was a weightlifter.
William Iorwerth Evans (16 April 1923 – 31 October 2003) was a weightlifter from Wales who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics. .
Biography At the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Evans competed in the men's lightweight event.
Evans won the 1955 Welsh national title and represented the 1958 Welsh team at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales, where he participated in the 75kg middleweight category category.
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Who was Yorrie Evans?
(b. 1923, d. 2003)
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Yorrie Evans was born on 16 April 1923.
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Yorrie Evans died in 2003.
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Yorrie Evans was a weightlifter.
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