Jonathan Stewart Ross is a

Northern Irish Northern Irish people is a demonym for all people born in Northern Ireland or people who are entitled to reside in Northern Ireland without any restriction on their period of residence. Most Northern Irish people either identify as Northern ...

bowler who was born in

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. He now represents

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after moving there.

Bowls career

He was part of the winning Irish Fours team in the 2004 World Bowls Championships held in

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with Jim Baker,

Neil Booth Neil Booth (born 19 February 1968) is a former Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler and bowls team coach and manager. Bowls career Booth has won three World Championship medals starting with the gold medal in the fours at the 200 ...

and Noel Graham. He also won the British Isles Singles titles in 2001 and 2002 and was the first Irish player to win the Scottish outdoors singles title. Jonathan partnered Noel Graham to win the prestigious

Hong Kong International Bowls Classic The Hong Kong International Bowls Classic is an international lawn bowls competition. It is one of the most prestigious events on the lawn bowls calendar. It started out as a pairs competition for men in 1981, with a singles event added for men ...

pairs title on a record equalling three occasions. In 2006, he represented Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. He won the 2010 singles title at 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 ...

bowling for the Priorscroft Bowls Club.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Jonny 1973 births Living people Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland Bowls World Champions Sportspeople from Lisburn