Jamie Peter Hill (born 5 February 1981) is a New Zealand 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

Commonwealth Games

Hill represented New Zealand in the

pairs Concentration, also known as Memory, Shinkei-suijaku (Japanese meaning "nervous breakdown"), Matching Pairs, Match Match, Match Up, Pelmanism, Pexeso or simply Pairs, is a card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and tw ...

at the

2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...

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Asia Pacific

Hill has won five medals at the

Asia Pacific Bowls Championships The Asia Pacific Bowls Championships formerly the Pacific Rim Championships was a bowls, lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Asia Pacific region. The event was inaugurated in 1985, and it was initially held ...

including a gold medal in 2003 and a double silver in the triples and fours at the 2019

in the

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National

Hill became the youngest player to represent New Zealand in 2003 when aged 22. He has won four national titles; after winning the fours title in successive years (2002 and 2003) bowling for Avondale Bowling Club and 17 years later in 2020 for Mount Albert. The following year he partnered Lance Pascoe when winning the 2021 pairs title.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Jamie 1981 births Living people New Zealand male bowls players Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for New Zealand People from Papakura