Noel Henry Graham is a Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler.

Bowls career

Graham (born 1968) won a

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in the fours at

1994 Commonwealth Games The 1994 Commonwealth Games ( French: ''XVéme Jeux du Commonwealth'') were held in Victoria, British Columbia, from 18 to 28 August 1994. Ten types of sports were featured at the Victoria Games: athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cycling, ...

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and repeated the feat eight years later at the

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. In the World Championships he won

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in the fours with

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and Jim Baker and a silver medal with Jim Baker in the

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during the

2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at the Northfield Bowls Complex in Ayr, Scotland, from 23 July to 7 August 2004 and Victoria Park, Leamington Spa in England one month later. Steve Glasson won the men's singles Gold defeating ...

. In 1995, he won the

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singles title, in addition to winning three pairs titles in 1999, 2000 and 2005. He won the 1995

Irish National Bowls Championships The Irish National Bowls Championships combines Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Traditionally the game was played mainly in Northern Ireland but the Kenilworth Bowling Club of Dublin joined the Irish Bowls Association in 1906 which pr ...

singles and subsequently won the singles at the

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in 1996. Graham retired from international competition in 2014.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Graham, Noel Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland Sportspeople from Belfast Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland Bowls World Champions Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls 1968 births Living people Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Bowls European Champions Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games