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Bowls At The 1990 Commonwealth Games
The lawn bowls competition at the 1990 Commonwealth Games took place in Auckland, New Zealand from 24 January until 3 February 1990. Medal table Medallists Results Men's singles – round robin Section A Section B Finals Third Place Play Off Corsie bt Bryant 25-17 Final Parrella bt McMahon 25-14 Men's pairs – round robin Section A Section B Finals Third Place Play Off New Zealand bt Wales 24-17 Final Australia bt Canada 23-15 Men's fours – round robin Section A Section B Finals Third Place Play Off New Zealand bt Australia 21-13 Final Scotland bt Northern Ireland 19-14 Women's singles – round robin Section A Section B Finals Third Place Play Off Johnston bt Hefford 25-15 Final Vada Tau bt Khan 25-18 Women's pairs – round robin Section A Section B Finals Third Place Play Off England bt Scotland 22-14 Final New Zealand bt Australia 23-13 Women's fours – round robin Section A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Wood (bowler)
William Walker Wood MBE (born 26 April 1938 in Haddington, East Lothian) is a former Scottish professional bowls player, who has mainly competed in the outdoor or lawn form of the game. He is regarded as one of the leading bowlers of his generation and his list of achievements include appearing at eight Commonwealth Games and winning two gold medals and eight World Bowls Championship gold medals. Early life Wood took up bowls at the age of 12, perhaps unsurprisingly as his father, grandfather and mother all played the sport. With little else to occupy his time, Wood says he elected to bowl in his home village of Gifford, rather than brave the bus journey to the swimming baths at nearby North Berwick. Wood undertook his national service with the British Army, joining aged 18, serving in Germany with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He later ran his own garage before concentrating on bowls. Bowls career World Championships Wood has won sixteen medals at the World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Watson
Marie Watson is a former international lawn bowler from New Zealand. Bowls career She won a gold medal in the women's pairs with Judy Howat at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. Two years later she won a silver medal in the fours at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Ayr. In addition to the major championship successes, Watson won nine medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, including two gold medals in the triples and fours during the 1995 tournament at Dunedin. She has won six 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 champions Men's pairs champions Men's fou ... titles; (1996, 1997, 1999 & 2003 singles), (1987 pairs) and (1995 fours) when bowling for various bowls clubs. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Watson, Marie New Zealand female bowls players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Howat
Judith Heather Howat (née McLay; born 20 May 1935) is a former New Zealand international lawn bowler. She won a gold medal representing her country in the women's pairs at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, and was part of the New Zealand women's four that finished second at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. Early life and family Howat was born Judith Heather McLay in Taumarunui on 20 May 1935, the daughter of Charles and Florence McLay. She was educated at Raurimu District High School. In 1955, she married Peter Charles Howat, and the couple went on to have four children. Howat had a varied work career. She worked for the New Zealand Post Office for six years, and owned a hairdressing salon for six years. She spent seven years as a taxi driver, and was a computer operator for Wellington Newspapers for six years. Bowls career At the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, Howat won the gold medal in the women's pairs with Marie Watson. In the final, they defeated Australia 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Johnston (bowls)
Margaret Johnson MBE (born 2 May 1943) is a former Northern Irish lawn and indoor bowler. Bowls career Johnston is arguably the greatest women's player of all time despite only starting outdoor bowling in 1979. From Bellaghy, County Londonderry, she joined an indoor club and played locally for many years before joining the Ballymoney Club. In her first year of the outdoors game Johnston reached the final of the Irish Singles. World Outdoor Her record in the World Outdoor Bowls Championship reads as six golds, two silver and one bronze. In 1988 she was pairs champion with Phillis Nolan, silver in the singles and bronze in the team. Four years later she won the singles and pairs (with Nolan again) and a silver in the team. In 1996 she won a third consecutive pairs title with Nolan and four years later in the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship she became singles Champion again. Finally in the 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship she won a record third singles title. Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Khan
Millie Cecilia Khan (29 July 1938 – 24 November 2003) was a lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand. Personal life Khan is of Māori descent through her mother, while her father was a Yugoslav emigrant. She married her husband Ron Khan, who is of Pakistani descent, when she was 16. Two of her daughters ( Jan Khan and Marina Khan) were also New Zealand representative lawn bowlers. Bowls career A competitor at four Commonwealth Games; she won a silver medal in the women's singles at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. She won a bronze medal in the same event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. She won eight medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including four gold medals. Khan won a total of eleven New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles; four in the singles (1989, 1990, 1992 and 2000); two in the pairs (1994 and 2000) and five in the fours (1989, 1990, 1997, 2001 and 2002) bowling for the Matamata Bowling Club. Honours and awards In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geua Vada Tau
Geau Vada-Tau (born 3 May 1957) is a Papua New Guinean Lawn Bowler Bowls, also known as lawn bowls or lawn bowling, is a sport in which the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty". It is played on a bowling green, which may be flat (for "flat-gre .... Tau stunned the bowling world in 1990 when she won the gold medal in the singles at the Auckland Commonwealth Games without losing a game. She became a national heroine because this was the first Commonwealth Games Gold Medal ever won by Papua New Guinean. Tau plays for the Boroko Club in Port Moresby. References Living people 1957 births People from the National Capital District (Papua New Guinea) Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Papua New Guinea Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Papua New Guinean female bowls players {{bowls-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart McConnell
Stewart McConnell is a former New Zealand international lawn bowler. Bowls career He won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in the fours with Kevin Darling, Phil Skoglund and Peter Shaw. He won three medals in the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships and also competed at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast .... He won 21 club titles. Personal life His brother Duncan also won 18 club titles. References {{DEFAULTSORT:McConnell, Stewart Living people New Zealand male bowls players Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for New Zealand Year of birth missing (living people) Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games 20th-century New Zealand people Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 minister Philip Oscar Skoglund and nephew of champion lawn bowls player Pete Skoglund. Bowls career He was the youngest New Zealand National Bowls Championships singles champion at 20, in 1958. He competed in five World Championships (1966, 1972, 1980, 1984 & 1988), winning a gold medal (triples 1988), two silver medals (fours 1984 & 1988) and three bronzes (pairs 1980, fours 1980, triples 1984) He competed in five Commonwealth Games, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982 and 1990 (not 1986 because of a sport-wide dispute over amateurism). He played indifferently in the singles in 1970, hence has been mainly lead in the pairs and fours skip, despite being National singles champion 1970, 1971, 1972 (and in 1958 & 1966). He won a Commonwealth Games bronze in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Shaw (bowls)
Peter Shaw is a former New Zealand international lawn bowler. Bowls career He won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in the fours with Kevin Darling, Phil Skoglund and Stewart McConnell. He won two gold medals in the pairs and fours at the 1997 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships. and also competed at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r .... He won the 1997 singles title, 1998 pairs title and 1997 & 1998 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships 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 me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Darling (bowls)
Kevin Robert Darling is a former New Zealand international lawn bowler. Profile He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 14 February 1947. Bowls career He won a bronze medal in the pairs and a bronze medal in the fours at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met .... Ten years later he won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in the fours with Peter Shaw, Phil Skoglund and Stewart McConnell. He won the 1988 singles title and the 1973 & 1974 pairs titles at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Balmacewen & Caversham Bowls Clubs. In 1990, Darling was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Darling, Kevin Living people New Zealand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney McCutcheon
Rodney McCutcheon is an international lawn and indoor bowler born on 3 April 1962. Rodney was born in Bangor, County Down and as a schoolboy first played on the short mats. In 1982 he defeated Tony Allcock in the British Isles Under-25 singles championship. His best moments came in the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship when he struck Gold in the fours and in the 1990 Commonwealth Games when he helped Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ... secure the silver. References Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland Living people Sportspeople from Bangor, County Down 1962 births Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games silver med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
