Phil Conway

{{short description|Irish athlete}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

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| name = Phil Conway

| full_name = Philip Morgan Conway

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| nationality = Irish

| sport = Athletics

| event = Shot put, Discus, Hammer

| club = Crusaders Athletics Club (Ireland)

| collegeteam = Boston University

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|1|24|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Dublin

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| height = 6'4

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Phil Conway (born 24 January 1948) is an Irish athlete.{{cite web |url=http://www.athleticsireland.ie/fanzone/hall-of-fame/phil-conway/ |title=Phil Conway |work=Athletics Ireland |accessdate=7 January 2018}} He competed in the men's shot put at the 1972 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/phil-conway-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418100950/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/phil-conway-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Phil Conway Olympic Results |accessdate=7 January 2018}}

For many years Conway was PE teacher, athletics coach and head of sport at Belvedere College, Dublin.{{cite web |title=Belvedere athletes crowned |url=https://www.jesuit.ie/news/belvedere-athletes-crowned/ |website=jesuit.ie |accessdate=2 June 2020}}

In his career Conway won five Irish national titles in the discus, four in the Shot Put and one in the Hammer.{{cite web |title=Phil M. Conway - Irish Olympian & Coach |url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~irishthrowersclub/Phil%20Conway.html |publisher=Irish Throwers Club |accessdate=3 June 2020}}

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