Michael Stepney (born 1980) is a Scottish
indoor bowler.
He reached a career high ranking of world number 20 in March 2025.
Bowls career
He won the Scottish National Singles Championship in 2009 and the British Isles Singles Championship the following year.
[ In 2017, he finished runner-up in the Scottish International Open, losing out to ]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, firs ...
. This helped him break into the WBT top 16 during 2018.
In 2022, Stepney won the men's singles gold medal at the inaugural World Bowls Indoor Championships
The World Bowls Indoor Championships is bowls event inaugurated in 2019 by the organisations known as World Bowls and the International Indoor Bowls Council (IIBC). It is contested annually between bowlers from national bowls organisations. The ...
, defeating Stewart Anderson in the final.
Playing with Jason Banks, Stepney won the open pairs title at the 2025 World Indoor Bowls Championship, defeating Jason Greenslade and Robert Paxton
Robert Owen Paxton (born June 15, 1932) is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era. He is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science in the Department of Histor ...
in the final.
References
1980 births
Living people
Scottish male bowls players
Indoor Bowls World Champions
Sportspeople from Elgin, Moray
21st-century Scottish sportsmen
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