Leslie John Gillett (born 17 November 1970) is an English international indoor and lawn

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player. He is nicknamed Razor.

Bowls career

Indoor career

Gillett won the

2001 World Indoor Bowls Championship The 2001 Potters Holidays World World Indoor Bowls Championship was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, from 8–21 January 2001, with the pairs following on from the 23–27 January 2001. In the singles Paul ...

pairs title in

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with bowls partner Mark McMahon. Sixteen years later he won his second title when he won the Open pairs with

Jason Greenslade Jason John Greenslade (born 6 March 1970) is a Welsh international indoor and lawn bowler. After moving to Guernsey in 2022 he later represented them in competition. Bowls career Outdoors Greenslade took up bowling at the age of eight after his ...

at the

2017 World Indoor Bowls Championship The 2017 Just World Indoor Bowls Championship was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, on 13–29 January 2017. Paul Foster of Scotland won the open singles to claim his fifth world singles title and Katherine ...

. At the 2022 World Indoor Bowls Championship, Gillett (as the sixth seed) finally won the Open singles title after defeating five-time champion Paul Foster in a tie-break set in the final. Gillett won the first set by virtue of overtaking Foster's lead during the final ends. Foster comfortably won the second set before Gillett won the tie break. Other major wins include the 1997 International Open and 2002 Welsh Open. He now represents the Leicester indoor club.

Outdoor career

Gillett is a two times winner at the

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in the ( national fours) in 1994, when representing Cheltenham and Gloucestershire BC and 1998, when representing Oxfordshire and Banbury Borough BC. He has also been twice runner-up in the

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. After the 1994 fours success Gillett subsequently won the 1995

British Isles Bowls Championships The British Isles Bowls Championships is a tournament held between the champions of their respective nations, England Scotland, Wales, combined Ireland and more recently Guernsey and Jersey. It was first held in 1960 although the triples event did ...

in Llanelli.

Personal life

He is an estimator/buyer by trade and is married to Sadie Gillett with three children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gillett, Les 1970 births Living people English male bowls players Indoor Bowls World Champions