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Steven John McKerihen (born 1957) is a Canadian 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 ...
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Bowls career

He started bowling at the age of eight in 1965, at the Toronto-Boulevard Club. In 2007, he won the silver in the triples and bronze in the fours at the
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 ...
in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has been selected twice for the triples team by Canada for the
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 ...
; at the
2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006, were an International sport, international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth held in Melbourne ...
in Melbourne and the
2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, were an international multi-sport event for the members of the Commonwealth that was held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 201 ...
in Delhi. McKerihen is the most successful fours skip in Canadian lawn bowls history, with six gold medals as skip in the fours at the Canadian Championships.


Personal life

He is a teacher by trade. His daughter is Kelly McKerihen.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McKerihen, Steve 1957 births Canadian male bowls players Living people Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bowls players for Canada 20th-century Canadian sportsmen