Norfolk Island has competed in eight of the eighteen
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...
, from 1986 onwards.
Norfolk Island has won two bronze medals, both in
lawn bowls
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 ...
.
Carmen Anderson
Carmelita 'Carmen' Anderson (maiden name Bishop) is a Norfolk Islander lawn bowls international.
Bowls career World Championship
Anderson won the gold medal in the singles at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide. In 2020, she ...
won a bronze in the women's singles at the
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 ...
, while
Ryan Dixon,
Hadyn Evans
Hadyn Paul "Teddy" Evans (born 15 October 1962) is a Norfolk Island businessman, actor and local government politician. He is also an international lawn bowler.
Biography
Evans was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, as an "eighth-generation descend ...
, and
Phillip Jones won bronze in the men's triples at the
2018 Commonwealth Games.
Overall medal tally
Athletes from Norfolk Island
Malcolm Champion of
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
was born on Norfolk Island. He won a gold medal for Australasia in the
1912 Summer Olympics, swimming in the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay.
See also
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Sport in Norfolk Island
References
Nations at the Commonwealth Games
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