Sydney John Snell (born 1934) 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

He won double silver at the

1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 1980 Men's World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at the City of Frankston Bowling Club in Frankston, Melbourne, Australia, from 17 January to 2 February 1980. The Australian government would not allow the South African team to compete ...

in Frankston; in the team event (Leonard Trophy) and the singles competition. He also won a silver medal in the

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at the

1978 Commonwealth Games The 1978 Commonwealth Games were held in Edmonton, Alberta from 3 to 12 August 1978, two years after the 1976 Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec. They were boycotted by Nigeria, in protest at New Zealand's sporting contacts with apar ...

in Edmonton.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Snell, John 1934 births Living people Australian male bowls players Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Bowls players at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games Place of birth missing (living people)