Alun Wyn Jones has become one of the most recognisable rugby stars on the planet. However, there are many secrets that fans still don’t know.
Alun Wyn Jones facts:
#1. His name!
His name has caused much confusion over the years, sometimes Wyn Jones being listed as his surname and other times Alun-Wyn being hyphenated. Jones is his surname, with Alun Wyn his first names – with no hyphen!
#2. Lions history
He is the first player in the professional era to have played in nine consecutive Tests for the Lions having been involved in all three series.
#3. Rugby Nickname
In his youth, apart from having long hair, he had a pair of white rugby boots on, at a time when it was black or nothing. Second rows wearing white rugby boots was quite unusual. That’s how he got the nickname Alun Gwyn Boots.
#4. Best mate
Legendary Wales prop Adam Jones was best man at Alun Wyn Jones wedding.
#5. Honoured
Jones received an OBE in the Queen’s 2020 Birthday Honours for his services to rugby union football in Wales.
#6. Rugby playing Dad
His father, Tim Jones, was a respected solicitor who also played rugby for Swansea, and his funeral in 2016 drew hundreds from the legal world and rugby world.
#7. Graduate
Alun Wyn Jones has a law degree from Swansea University and he graduated in 2010.
#8. Personal life
He married Dr Anwen Rees, who is a doctor of physiology, in 2014 and the couple have two daughters together, Mali and Efa.
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