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Nigel Owens
Nigel Owens (born 18 June 1971) is a Welsh international rugby union referee. He is an international and European Rugby Champions Cup referee and was the only Welsh referee at the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France and at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. He was referee for the 2015 Rugby World Cup final in England.
Owens was appointed as an international referee in 2005, and that year officiated at his first international between Ireland and Japan in Osaka. Owens made his World Cup debut on 11 September 2007 in the match between Argentina and Georgia in Lyon, France. He is one of only two referees to be appointed to referee two consecutive Heineken Cup finals: Munster v Toulouse at the Millennium Stadium in 2008; and Leicester Tigers v Leinster at Murrayfield in 2009. He has since done a third final Leinster v Ulster at Twickenham 2012, this as well as two European Challenge Cup finals makes a total of five European finals, making him the most capped referee in European competition.
He is also known as a TV personality, as one of the presenters of the S4C chats shows ''Jonathan'' and ''Bwrw'r Bar''. Owens also hosts his own quiz programme ''Munud i Fynd''. In 2011 he was made a member of the Gorsedd of Bards.
==Personal life==
Owens was born and raised in the village of Mynyddcerrig, near Cross Hands in Carmarthenshire, Wales. He is a fluent Welsh speaker. He was a school technician at Ysgol Gyfun Maes Yr Yrfa Cefneithin and a youth worker with Menter Cwm Gwendraeth. His autobiography, ''Hanner Amser'' (''Half Time''), was published in Welsh in 2008, then in English in 2009. In 2011 he was made a member of the Gorsedd of Bards.〔 He was a patron of the LGBT Centre of Excellence Wales, until its disbandment in late 2012, but he is still that of the Wooden Spoon Society rugby charity. In 2013 Owens became a patron of Bullies Out charity in Wales. He served at various times as secretary, chairman and president of the Wales Federation of Young Farmers Clubs. Owens is a fan of Wrexham Football Club.
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