Dennis Katunarich (born 1950) is a former Australian international

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 ...

Bowls career

Katunarich won seven medals at the

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, including three gold medals in the 1987 pairs at Lae in Papua New Guinea and the 1989 pairs and fours in Suva, Fiji. He lost out on a

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in the fours with

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, Ken Woods and

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at the

1990 Commonwealth Games The 1990 Commonwealth Games ( mi, 1990 Taumāhekeheke Commonwealth) 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. Partic ...

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when being beaten by New Zealand. He bowls for the Osborne Park Bowling Club.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Katunarich, Dennis Australian male bowls players 1950 births Living people Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia 20th-century Australian people 21st-century Australian people Place of birth missing (living people)