Jim Baker is a former Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler.

Bowls career

Baker was born in Belfast on 18 February 1958. After finishing runner-up in the 1982 World Indoor Bowls Championship he went one better in 1984 clinching the World Indoor title. Baker was part of the Gold Medal-winning triples for the combined Irish team in the 1984 World Outdoor Bowls Championship and Gold Medal-winning fours in the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. In the 2004 World Championships he won a third gold medal for the combined Irish team, in the fours with

Jonathan Ross Jonathan Stephen Ross (born 17 November 1960) is an English broadcaster, film critic, comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He presented the BBC One chat show '' Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'' during the 2000s and early 2010s, hosted his ow ...

, Noel Graham and Neil Booth and a silver medal with Noel Graham in the pairs during the 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. In addition Baker has won two

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

medals. At national level he also won the 1989

Irish National Bowls Championships The Irish National Bowls Championships combines Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Traditionally, the game was played mainly in Northern Ireland, but the Kenilworth Bowling Club of Dublin joined the Irish Bowls Association in 1906, wh ...

singles.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, Jim Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland 1958 births Living people Sportspeople from Belfast Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland Bowls World Champions Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games silver medallists in lawn bowls