Iwan Thomas: Birth, Early life, Relationship
A native of Farnborough, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Iwan Thomas came into this world on the 5th of January in 1974(age-44). As he was born in the month of January, his zodiac sign is Capricorn. He is a tall guy with a towering height of 6 feet and 2 inches. Presently, he is residing in Southampton. His wiki and bio says that he is fond of tattoos and stuff.
The 44-year-actor has managed to keep his personal life a secret and there are no more details found about whether he is married or has any girlfriend or is gay.
Iwan Thomas: Professional Life, Career
Iwan Thomas is a former European and Commonwealth Games champion. His coach for most of his career was Mike Smith, former coach of the British 400m Roger Black, Todd Bennett as well as Paul Harmsworth also hurdler Kriss Akabusi.
In addition to that, he was also the winner of the silver medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He earned gold medals at World Championships, Commonwealth Games as well as European Championships. Thomas first gained fame after he competed in the 1992 World Junior Championships. Additionally, he was also awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1999 Queen’s Birthday Honors List for the services to Athletics.
Prior to that, Thomas has also made his appearance in numbers of the TV shows. He worked as guest presenter of Children’s TV show known as Best of Friends along with Darren Campbell as well as Zoe Salmon. He is also the regular panelist on the BBC Two’s Through the Keyhole.
He was also one of the contestants on the Superstars on both the BBC One as well as Five and he also took part in the BBC One’s Hole in the Wall. As a judge, he has also starred in the Daily Cooks Challenge along with the presenter Antony Worrall Thompson. His other TV credits include The Real Hustle, Celebrity MasterChef, Total Wipeout, Eggheads, Jungle Run, The Wright Stuff, and more.
It was announced on the 27th of August of 2015 that he would appear as a contestant in 2015 series of the Strictly Come Dancing and later on 5th September of the same year, it was again announced that he was partnered with the professional dancer Ola Jordan.
Before this, Thomas also made a guest appearance as the cyclist in final round of the 2008-09 Revolution series at the Manchester Velodrome competing in the 200 m time trial. He also took part in the London Marathon 2015 in which he was beaten by Tom Witcomb. In addition to that, he also joined Ecover Sailing Team in the year 2009 as the part of an Extreme 40 Event.
Iwan Thomas: Social Media, Instagram, Twitter
Iwan Thomas is a well-known celebrity and has fans all over the world. With the help of his fans and followers, he has built an enormous social profile on the internet with a wide reach across some of the most popular social networking sites like Twitter and Instagram.
Thomas is available on Twitter at @Iwanrunner and has 109 thousand followers currently. After joining the site back in the October of 2009, he has tweeted around 40.3 thousand times since then. Available on Instagram at @iwanrunner, he has accumulated a total of 10.9 thousand followers on the site.
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