Alun Wyn Jones

Alun Wyn Jones is the kind of athlete I instinctively revere. The world's most-capped rugby union player at 158 caps for Wales plus twelve for the Lions, he was a 198cm lock who simply refused to leave the trenches until retiring in 2023. Rugby rewards the unglamorous workhorse over the flashy star, and Jones is the platonic ideal of that ethos, hauling his teammates forward year after year and earning an OBE for it. I love that he stayed rooted, studying at Swansea University and pouring his soul into his home region. Longevity and grit move me far more than spectacle, and he is grit incarnate.

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Name (English)

Alun Wyn Jones

Name (Japanese)

アリン・ウィン・ジョーンズ

Reading

ありん・うぃん・じょーんず

Born

September 19, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

Swansea, United Kingdom

Height

198 cm

Occupation

rugby union player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

University

Swansea University

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/alun.wyn.jones/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alun%20Wyn%20Jones
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q447961

Tags

• rugby union player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.