Richard Bowen (born 1957) is a Welsh 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 ...

Bowls career

He won a

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in the fours 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 ...

Ian Slade Ian Slade (born 18 April 1968) is a Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler. He won a bronze medal in the fours with Dai Wilkins, Mark Anstey and Neil Rees at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Four years later he repeated t ...

and

Dai Wilkins David 'Dai' Wilkins (born 22 July 1942) is a former Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler. Bowls career He won two Commonwealth Games bronze medals in the fours at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and the 2002 Commonwealth Games ...

at the

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. He bowls for Barry Athletic Bowling Club and has previously bowled for Cardigan Bowling Club and Porthcawl Bowling Club. He won the 1994 fours title at the

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when bowling for Cardigan BC and the National Senior Singles in 2018 when bowling for Barry Athletic Bowling Club. He has also won the Welsh Triples in 1988 bowling with Porthcawl Bowling Club. He is a director of BowlsWales.

References

Living people 1957 births Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Welsh male bowls players Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games {{UK-bowls-bio-stub