Peter Shaw is a former New Zealand 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 won a

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at the

1990 Commonwealth Games The 1990 Commonwealth Games () were held in Auckland, New Zealand from 24 January – 3 February 1990. It was the 14th Commonwealth Games, and part of New Zealand's 1990 sesquicentennial celebrations. Participants competed in ten sports: at ...

in the fours with Kevin Darling,

Phil Skoglund Philip Charles Skoglund (20 June 1937 – 8 May 2015) was a New Zealand lawn bowls player, and part of New Zealand's greatest lawn bowls family dynasty. Early life Born in 1937 at Palmerston North, he was the son of politician and cabinet mi ...

and Stewart McConnell. He won two

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s in the pairs and fours at the 1997

Asia Pacific Bowls Championships The Asia Pacific Bowls Championships formerly the Pacific Rim Championships was a lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Asia Pacific region. The event was inaugurated in 1985, and it was initially held every t ...

. and also competed at the

1998 Commonwealth Games The 1998 Commonwealth Games ( Malay: ), officially known as the XVI Commonwealth Games (Malay: ), were a multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 1998 games were the first held in Asia and the last Commonwealth Games of the 20th cen ...

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. He won the 1997 singles title, 1998 pairs title and 1997 & 1998 fours title at the

New Zealand National Bowls Championships The New Zealand National Bowls Championships is organised by Bowls New Zealand. Bowls was introduced in New Zealand in 1861 but the first national championships were not held until 1914. Men's singles Men's pairs Men's fours Women ...

when bowling for the Northern and North Palmerston Bowls Clubs.

Personal life

He is a company manager by trade.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, Peter Living people 1954 births New Zealand male bowls players Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games 21st-century New Zealand people Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen Commonwealth Games bronze medallists in lawn bowls