Mike Galloway (born 1966) is a New Zealand 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 ...

. He is a double National champion and represented New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games.

Bowls career

Galloway made his international debut in 1997 against Fiji. He won the

New Zealand National Bowls Championships The New Zealand National Bowls Championships is organised by Bowls New Zealand. Bowls was introduced in New Zealand in 1861 but the first national championships were not held until 1914. Men's singles champions Men's pairs champions Men's fou ...

, first in 2001, when winning the pairs with David Clark when bowling for Pakuranga and then 20 years later when winning the singles title bowling for Royal Oak. Galloway was awarded the joint 2020-21 male New Zealand Player of the Year. In 2022, he was selected for the men's triples and men's fours events at the

2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ...

in Birmingham. In 2024, Galloway won another National Bowls Championships, when claiming the fours title with Martin Dixon, Steve Fisher and David Clark.

Personal life

Galloway is an Auckland-based greenkeeper by trade.

References

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