Richard Corsie

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(born 27 November 1966) is a Scottish international outdoor and indoor

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 ...

player, he is considered to be among the best bowls players of all time.

Bowls career

Corsie won the

World Indoor Bowls Championships The World Indoor Bowls Championship is an international bowls competition held annual at Potters holiday park in Hopton on Sea. The last week of the competition is televised live on BBC where the open singles and open pairs', women's singles a ...

singles title three times during his career and also won the pairs title twice with Alex Marshall and Graham Robertson respectively. He won the pairs title at the

1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 1992 Men's Woolwich World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at Beach House Park, Worthing, England, from 8 to 23 August 1992. The 1992 Women's Henselite World Championship was held at the Northfield Bowling Complex in Ayr, Scotland ...

with Marshall and two years later won a

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in the

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at the 1994

beating his long-time nemesis and friend

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in the final. In 1987, he won the

Hong Kong International Bowls Classic The Hong Kong International Bowls Classic is an international lawn bowls competition. It is one of the most prestigious events on the lawn bowls calendar. It started out as a pairs competition for men in 1981, with a singles event added for men ...

singles title, in addition to winning the pairs titles in 1988. He was the Chairman of the

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when the

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was formed on 1 January 1997.

Awards

Corsie was appointed

Member of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(MBE) in the 1999 New Year Honours for services to bowls. He was inducted into the

Scottish Sports Hall of Fame The Scottish Sports Hall of Fame is the national sports hall of fame of Scotland, set up in 2002. It is a joint project organised by sportscotland, the national governmental body for Scottish sport, and National Museums Scotland. It is also funded ...

in March 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Corsie, Richard 1966 births Living people Scottish male bowls players Bowls World Champions Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Indoor Bowls World Champions Members of the Order of the British Empire Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games