Andrew Knapper (born 2 September 1981) is an English international

lawn bowler Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which players try to roll their ball (called a bowl) closest to a smaller ball (known as a "jack" or sometimes a "kitty"). The bowls are shaped (biased), so that they follow a curve ...

Bowls career

He competed for England in both the men's fours and the men's pairs events at the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games (), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014 (; ), were an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth Games as governed by the Commonwea ...

where he won a silver and bronze medal respectively. In 2015 he won the triples bronze medal at the

Atlantic Bowls Championships The Atlantic Bowls Championships was a bowls, lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Atlantic region. The event was a qualifying event for the World Bowls Championship, World Outdoor Bowls Championships until ...

. In 2016 he was part of the triples team with

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and Jamie Walker who won the gold medal at

2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 2016 World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at the Burnside Bowling Club in Avonhead, Christchurch Christchurch (; ) is the largest city in the South Island and the List of cities in New Zealand, second-largest city by urban a ...

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. He won the National Championship triples in 2013 and 2019. In 2020 he was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Knapper, Andrew 1981 births Living people Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England English male bowls players Bowls World Champions Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games 21st-century English sportsmen Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games silver medallists in lawn bowls