The 2022 World Bowls Indoor Championships took place at County of Bristol IBC,

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, England, from 25 to 29 April 2022. The event was organised by

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and the International Indoor Bowls Council (IIBC). The Championships are the inaugural edition because two attempts at holding the event in 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to the

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. In 2019, World Bowls came to an agreement with the IIBC (formerly the WIBC). The agreement was to merge their two international indoor championships, the World Cup Singles and the IIBC Championships. The Championships were streamed live by the English Indoor Bowling Association's platform EIBA TV. The format of the Championships is one player representing each county in the singles and two in the pairs. A round robin will end with the top two in the singles progressing to the knock out rounds but only the group winner in the pairs progressing to the knock out round. Scottish bowlers dominated the first Championships, with

Michael Stepney Michael Stepney (born 1980) is a Scottish international indoor bowler. 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 ...

defeating fellow Scot Stewart Anderson in the men's singles final and

Julie Forrest Julie Forrest (born 3 November 1968) is a Scottish bowls player. Bowls career Outdoors Julie has won three World Outdoor medals, a silver medal in the fours at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg and two bronze medals as ...

claiming the women's singles final after beating Gloria Ha. Stewart Anderson and

Alison Merrien Alison Jayne Merrien (born 28 November 1974) is an indoor bowls player from Saint Peter Port, Guernsey. Bowls career Indoors Merrien won double gold in the women's singles defeating Karen Murphy and the mixed pairs with Simon Skelton the 201 ...

MBE won the mixed pairs defeating Michael Stepney and Claire Anderson in the final.

Winners

Results

Men's singles

First round Second round Quarter finals Semi finals Final

Women's singles

First round Second round Quarter finals Semi finals Final

Mixed pairs

First round Quarter finals Semi finals Final

References

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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. Th ...