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Australian water polo player

Rod Owen-Jones
Personal information
Born (1970-01-06) January 6, 1970 (age 54)
Sydney, Australia
Height197 cm (6 ft 6 in)
Weight101 kg (223 lb)
Sport
SportWater polo

Rod Owen-Jones (born 6 January 1970) is an Australian water polo player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Rod began his career playing in South Australia as a center-forward but switched——to a utility player during his national team duties.

Rod played with the Australia men's national water polo team from 1991–2000. Rod represented the national team in the 1993 FINA Water Polo World Cup winning Bronze Medal, "Australia's best men's result at a major championship." He represented Australia at 3 Universiades, 2 World Championships, 2 World Cups and "an Olympic Games."

Rod was the highest goal scorer at the "1993 and 1994 National Championships and voted as the Best and Fairest men's player in 1994."

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rod Owen-Jones". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2012.

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