Wales Under-20s Wing Bowen Signs New Cardiff Deal

Bowen, boy of erstwhile Scarlets fly-half Gareth, was pinch Bristol Bears while studying astatine Clifton College and signed for Cardiff successful 2024, making his elder debut against Cheetahs successful December of that year.

The 5ft 7in (1.73m) helping was mentioned arsenic a imaginable bolter for Steve Tandy's first Wales squad successful nan autumn but has been near to create successful nine rugby and pinch nan under-20s.

Bowen started each 5 games of his last U20 Six Nations, scoring a double successful Ireland, and is poised to characteristic astatine nan World Rugby Junior World Championship successful Georgia this summer.

"He is simply a young, breathtaking subordinate who is simply a large portion of our future," said Cardiff coach Corniel van Zyl.

"His constituent of quality is evidently his finishing - he has nan expertise to decorativeness opportunities that not galore different players could.

"He is besides a awesome person, who is eager to study and improve. The cardinal point for Tom now, is continuing to create his all-round crippled arsenic a helping connected nan backmost of immoderate awesome games for america and a really bully Six Nations."