Robert 'Bob' Middleton is a former Australian international lawn bowler.

Bowls career

World Championships

Middleton won a singles

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, a pairs

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with

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and a team bronze at the

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and eight years later won a bronze medal in the 1984 World Outdoor Championships in

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with bowls partner Kenny Williams.

Club

He was fourteen times Mitcham club champion and was a sale agent by trade.

Awards

He was inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Middleton, Bob Australian male bowls players Living people 1935 births Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Australian sportsmen