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The World Bowls Tour is an organisation that promotes indoor bowls and organises competitions (primarily in the United Kingdom), including the World Indoor Bowls Championships. History In 1990, the sport was experiencing period of fragmentation following the loss of the television coverage of the World Indoor Bowls Championships The World Indoor Bowls Championship is an international bowls competition held annually at Potters Resorts in Hopton on Sea. In recent history matches are streamed live on YouTube & Facebook, attracting around four million views annually. T .... John Hall, the President of the English Bowls Association, unsuccessfully called for closer co-operation between the indoor and outdoor games. In 1992, a player-led organisation formed the Professional Bowls Association, during the 1992 World Indoor Bowls Championship, which was held in the Preston Guildhall to promote indoor bowls worldwide and on television. On 1 January 1997, under the then-cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Stephen Rees
Stephen Rees is a lawn bowler and indoor bowler born on 13 February 1960. Bowls career Rees is from St Thomas in Swansea and took up bowls in 1978. He shot to prominence in 1986 when he won the CIS UK singles title defeating David Bryant in the final. His greatest moment arrived when he won a fours gold medal at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg. Another major achievement was winning the 1999 World Indoor Bowls Championship Pairs title with John Price. He also won the 1990 pairs title at the Welsh National Bowls Championships The Welsh National Bowls Championships is organised by Welsh Lawn Bowls (WLB) which was formed in 2023 as an amalgamation of the Welsh Bowling Association and Welsh Women's Bowling Association. The first national championships were held in 1919 ... with Terry Sullivan. References Welsh male bowls players 1960 births Living people Bowls World Champions Indoor Bowls World Champions {{UK-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Weale
Robert Arthur Weale (born in Hereford on 3 April 1963), is a Welsh international lawn and indoor bowls player. Weale is originally from Presteigne and was educated at John Beddoes School, but now lives in Hereford. In 2022, he was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of fame. Bowls career Weale made his international debut in 1982. He was the youngest competitor in the 1984 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Aberdeen, where he competed in the triples event. World Titles Weale's career-best performance came in January 2000, when he won the 2000 World Indoor Bowls Championship singles title at Potters. Just a few months later, Weale won the men's fours title at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, in April 2000. Commonwealth Games Weale has won six Commonwealth Games medals achieved from eight successive games, a record. The achievement of winning medals over eight games is a record for a lawn bowls player and equals the record for a competitor across all sports. Wea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Greenslade
Jason John Greenslade (born 6 March 1970) is a Welsh international indoor and lawn bowler. After moving to Guernsey in 2022 he later represented them in competition. He reached a career high ranking of world number 28 in March 2025. Bowls career Outdoors Greenslade took up bowling at the age of eight after his parents (both Welsh internationals) introduced him to the sport. In 2001, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic singles title. He has competed three Commonwealth Games in the 2002 Commonwealth Games at Heaton Park, Manchester (where he won a bronze in the fours, in the 2006 Commonwealth Games at the John Cain Memorial Park in Thornbury, Victoria, Australia and in the 2010 Commonwealth Games at the Yamuna Sports Complex in Delhi. His outdoor club is Dinas Powys. In 2009 he won the pairs gold medal and singles bronze medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships. He was the Welsh National singles champion in 2011 as 2014 and won the singles at the British Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Harlow
Greg Harlow (born 6 July 1968) is an English international indoor bowls player. Bowls career World Indoor Championships Born in Ely, Greg Harlow rose to the world ranking of number one indoors during 2006. Despite being world number one it was not until 2007 that he won his first title at the World Indoor Bowls Championships. That victory was the mixed pairs at the 2007 World Indoor Bowls Championship with Jo Morris. His finest moment arrived when winning the 2010 World Indoor Bowls Championship where he defeated Stewart Anderson of Scotland in the final. A third title was won when he won the men's pairs with Nick Brett at the 2014. He repeated the success of winning the pairs with Brett again, when they won the 2020 World Indoor Bowls Championship open pairs title. His world ranking has remained high retaining the world number ranking in 2012, 2017 and 2018 but had been unlucky in the World indoors by finishing runner-up on seven occasions. At the 2021 World Indoor Bowls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Bond
Ian John Bond (born 8 June 1973) is an English international lawn and indoor bowler. Career Bond plays for the Exonia indoor bowls club and the Crediton outdoor bowls club. He won the Pairs title at the 2008 World Indoor Bowls Championship and repeated the feat securing the 2010 World Indoor Bowls Championship The 2010 World Indoor Bowls Championships was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, from 05 to 24 January 2010. Winners Draw and results Men's singles Finals Top half Bottom half Men's Pairs Women's ... whilst partnering Andy Thomson on both occasions. Also in 2010 he became the World Matchplay champion. At the 2025 World Indoor Bowls Championship, Bond became the inaugural invitational Masters champion with a win over Billy Jackson in the final, after defeating Graham Robertson in the semi-finals. Other achievements include winning the - 2001 BUPA Care Homes Open 2003 Scottish Masters 2005 Scottish International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gourlay
David Gourlay is a Scottish (and former Australian) international lawn & indoor bowler from the Prestwick Bowling Club and Crookston Bowling Club. He is also a Commonwealth Games medal winning coach. Bowls career Gourlay, a Glaswegian, first took up the game aged 11 following the success of his father David Gourlay Sr. at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and his mother Sarah Gourlay at the 1985 World Outdoor Championships. He has won 15 World Bowls Tour Titles with the highlight being the World Indoor Singles title in 1996. He represented Scotland at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. He is related to the Scottish footballers James Gourlay and Jimmy Gourlay. Occupation & coaching Following a spell in Australia from 2005-2009 where Gourlay played and coached in the outdoor and indoor game, he returned to Scotland and set up a bowls retail outlet business http://www.davidgourlaybowls.co.uk Bowls Scotland appointed Gourlay as their new head coach for the 2014 Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Gillett
Leslie John Gillett (born 17 November 1970) is an English international indoor and lawn bowls player. He is nicknamed Razor. Bowls career Indoor career Gillett won the 2001 World Indoor Bowls Championship pairs title in Great Yarmouth with bowls partner Mark McMahon. Sixteen years later he won his second title when he won the Open pairs with Jason Greenslade at the 2017 World Indoor Bowls Championship in Great Yarmouth. At the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship, Gillett (as the sixth seed) finally won the Open singles title after defeating five-time champion Paul Foster in a tie-break set in the final. Gillett won the first set by virtue of overtaking Foster's lead during the final ends. Foster comfortably won the second set before Gillett won the tie break. Other major wins include the 1997 International Open and 2002 Welsh Open. He now represents the Leicester indoor club. Outdoor career Gillett is a two times winner at the National Championships in the ( natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Schuback
Ian David "Shooey" Schuback (born 4 September 1952) is an Australian former lawn and indoor bowler, and the only player from outside the United Kingdom to ever win the World Indoor Bowls Championship. Biography Schuback bowled for the Coolangatta club in Queensland and was also a former professional tennis coach. He started bowling in 1980 after watching the Melbourne World Outdoor Championships. Schuback claimed a Men's Singles silver medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games and then won the 1988 World Indoor Bowls Championship and the 1990 Commonwealth Games Pairs titles. He won the 1992 World Indoor Bowls Championships Singles, the 1994 World Indoor Bowls Championship Pairs and the 1996 World Indoor Bowls Championship Pairs. He won two silver medals at the 1991 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, in Kowloon, Hong Kong. In the 2009 Australia Day Honours he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to lawn bowls as a coach, competitor and commentator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Duff (bowls)
Hugh Duff is a retired Scottish lawn and indoor bowler. He was a member of the Auchinleck Indoor Bowling Club. Biography Duff won two world indoor singles title in 1988 and nine years later in 1997. Duff also partnered fellow Scotsman Paul Foster when winning the 2002 World Indoor Pairs. Bowling as a member of the West Park, Hull club he finished runner-up to Stephen Farish Stephen Edward Farish (born 12 August 1970) is an English international bowls player. Biography In 1992, Farish won the national singles title after defeating Hugh Duff in the final. He has further National Championship titles in 1997 and ... in the 1992 English national singles. In 1995, he was sent home from the Scottish squad after breaking curfew rules. After losing in a preliminary match in the 2003 World Indoor Bowls Championship, Duff announced that he would retire from the sport. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Duff, Hugh Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Scottis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark McMahon (bowls)
Mark McMahon is a Scottish born indoor and lawn bowls player, who has represented England, Hong Kong and Australia at international level. Bowls Outdoors He has had a nomadic career being born in Scotland but representing Hong Kong until 1995 and then England and Australia at international level. He represented Hong Kong at three Commonwealth Games in 1986, 1990 and 1994 with his greatest achievement being a silver medal in the singles at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. He won five medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships representing Hong Kong, they were four silver medals and one bronze medal from 1989 to 1993. In 1988, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title. Indoors He has competed at the World indoor Championships since 1989 and has reached a career best seeding of three and we won the 2001 World Indoor Bowls Championship pairs title in Great Yarmouth with bowls partner Les Gillett Leslie John Gillett (born 17 No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Price (bowls)
John Haydn Price is a former Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler and current bowls commentator. Bowls career Early life Brought into the game by his grandparents at the age of 10, and as a schoolboy, he initially played only during the summer holidays, winning a couple of open tournaments in partnership with his father Harry. He started to take bowls seriously after earning his first Wales cap in 1979. Price is one of the founder members of both the Professional Bowls Association and also the World Bowls Tour, and is a timeless ace on the portable rink, . World Indoor Championships Price is a four times World indoor champion, winning the singles in 1990. Price also made the 2005 final fifteen years after his first singles title was achieved, where he lost to Paul Foster in the final. He teamed up with Stephen Rees to lift the 1999 World Indoor Pairs, and was twice World Mixed Pairs champion when he partnered Carl Ashby in the 2005 and 2006 finals. Commonwealth Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
