Mark Dawes (born 1983) is an English international
lawn and indoor bowler and a four times world indoor champion.
Bowls career
He won the
Men's National Junior title in 2005 at the National Championships. By 2014 he had reached a career high world indoor ranking of 8.
In 2018 he won the
World Indoor Open Pairs title with
Jamie Chestney. and then followed this by taking the World Open Singles Championship, defeating
Robert Paxton
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in a hard fought final. Dawes had been the player of the tournament and Paxton did well to take the final to a tie break. He was subsequently named as the singles first seed at the
2019 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The 2019 Just World Indoor Bowls Championship was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, from 10–27 January 2019. The event is organised by the World Bowls Tour.
Stewart Anderson won his second open singles ...
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In 2020 his indoor club Blackpool Newton Hall BC permanently closed and Dawes was forced to find a new club.
Despite the loss of his club he won a third world indoor title when winning the open pairs at the
2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship
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for the second time with Jamie Chestney.
Dawes then reproduced his good form to win the singles event for the second time, defeating
Greg Harlow in the final 10-3 11-5 and record a fourth world indoor title in total.
References
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1983 births
Living people
English male bowls players
Indoor Bowls World Champions