{{Short description|Wales international rugby union footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{for|the Cardiff and Glamorgan scrum-half|Luke Evans (rugby union)}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Luc Evans | image = | caption = | full_name = Iwan Luc Evans | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|06|13|df=y}} | birth_place = Treorchy, Wales | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = Daniel Evans (brother) | position = Utility back | repyears1 = 1991 | repteam1 = {{nrut|Wales}} | repcaps1 = 1 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Iwan Luc Evans''' (born 13 June 1971) is a Welsh former rugby union international.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rugby Union: Welsh 'payments' to be investigated |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby-union-welsh-payments-to-be-investigated-1425099.html |work=The Independent |date=25 June 1994 |language=en}}</ref>
Raised in the Rhondda Valley, Evans was a utility back who played most often in the position of fullback.<ref>{{cite news |title='Unity' call by Luc |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/923601395 |work=Rhondda Leader |date=30 September 1993}}</ref> He was on the Wales squad for the 1991 tour of Australia and played one tour match, before earning his only Test cap as a substitute against France in the 1991 Five Nations, to replace injured winger Ieuan Evans with five minutes remaining. During his career, Evans played for Treorchy, Bridgend, Llanelli and Swansea, before retiring aged 26 to study medicine.<ref name="Thomas">{{cite news |last1=Thomas |first1=Simon |title=The new life Down Under of the man whose Wales career lasted just five minutes |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/new-life-down-under-man-18043499 |work=WalesOnline |date=5 April 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
Evans later become a dentist in Newcastle, New South Wales, after emigrating to Australia in 2007.<ref name="Thomas"/>
==See also== *List of Wales national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|11049}}
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