John Slight is a retired Scottish 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

He won a

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

in the fours at the

1970 British Commonwealth Games The 1970 British Commonwealth Games (Scottish Gaelic: Geamannan a 'Cho-fhlaitheis Bhreatainn 1970) were held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 16 to 25 July 1970. This was the first time the name British Commonwealth Games was adopted, the first tim ...

Edinburgh Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...

with Alex McIntosh,

Norman Pryde Norman Pryde also known as Norrie Pryde is a retired Scottish international lawn bowler. Bowls career He won a silver medal in the fours at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh with Alex McIntosh, David Pearson and John Slight. ...

and David Pearson. He also won the

Scottish National Bowls Championships The Scottish National Bowls Championships is one of the oldest bowls competitions in the world. In 1892 Mr James Brown of Sanquhar BC and Dr Clark of the Partick BC formed the Scottish Bowls Association and organised the first rink (fours) champ ...

fours title (with McIntosh, Pryde and Pearson) in 1968.

References

Living people Scottish male bowls players Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Scotland Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Bowls players at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games Year of birth missing (living people) Medallists at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games {{UK-bowls-bio-stub