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Stanley Lai
Stanley Gon Lap Lai (born 1965) is an international lawn bowler from Hong Kong. Bowls career Lai came to prominence (as the champion of Hong Kong) representing his nation and winning the silver medal at the 2012 World Singles Champion of Champions. He was denied gold by Muhammad Hizlee Abdul Rais of Malaysia. The following year, he also claimed a silver medal behind Richard Catton of England at the 2013 Hong Kong International Bowls Classic The Hong Kong International Bowls Classic is an international lawn bowls competition. It is one of the most prestigious events on the lawn bowls calendar. It started out as a pairs competition for men in 1981, with a singles event added for men .... References 1965 births Living people Hong Kong male bowls players {{Bowls-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Singles Champion Of Champions
The World Singles Champion of Champions is an event inaugurated in 2003 that is contested annually between bowlers who have won their respective national singles title. The event was first held in 2003 at the Moama Bowling Club in Moama, Australia. Traditionally the competition favours the Southern Hemisphere players due to the fact that the Northern Hemisphere players have to travel to the event and compete on faster greens. No male player has managed to win the title a second time and the only female to achieve two wins is Jo Edwards Joanna Edwards (born 5 February 1970) is a New Zealand international lawn bowls competitor. She has won two world titles and three Commonwealth Games gold medals. Bowls career Outdoors At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal along w ... of New Zealand. Past Winners Men's singles Women's singles +Ireland competes as one nation See also World Bowls Events References {{Bowls Competitions Bowls competitions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Hizlee Abdul Rais
Muhammad Hizlee Abdul Rais (born 23 February 1989) is a Malaysian lawn bowler. Bowls career World Championships Rais was selected by the Malaysian national team, to represent them at the sport's blue riband event, the 2023 World Bowls Championship. He participated in the men's triples and the men's fours events. The Malaysian team ranked seventh in the world at the start of the tournament, were given the target of reaching the semi finals. In the triples, his team reached the quarter final before losing to Ireland. Commonwealth Games Rais competed in both the men's singles and the men's pairs events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He failed to qualify from the group stages in the men's singles event, but won a silver medal in the men's pairs Other events In 2012 he became the World Singles Champion of Champions defeating Stanley Lai of Hong Kong in the final. Rais has won five medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, including a double bronze the 2019 Asia Pacific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong International Bowls Classic
The Hong Kong International Bowls Classic is an international lawn bowls competition. It is one of the most prestigious events on the lawn bowls calendar. It started out as a pairs competition for men in 1981, with a singles event added for men in 1983 and later singles and pairs competition for women added to the programme in 2008. The event was cancelled in 2019 due to the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests and the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif .... Men's Finalists Women's Finalists See also * World Bowls Events References {{Bowls Competitions External links Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association Bowls competitions Bowls in Hong Kong International sports competitions hosted by Hong Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1965 Births
Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience. * February 12 ** The African and Malagasy Republic, Malagasy Common Organization ('; OCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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