Stewart Anderson (born 23 July 1985)
is a Scottish international
bowls player and a world champion indoors.
Bowls career
He started bowling aged just 12 with Auchinleck Indoor Juniors and outdoor with Glaisnock Valley.
Having previously been a beaten finalist in the
2010 World Championships (where he lost out to
Greg Harlow
Greg Harlow (born 6 July 1968) is an English international indoor bowls player.
Bowls career World Indoor Championships
Born in Ely, Greg Harlow rose to the world ranking of number one indoors during 2006. Despite being world number one it was n ...
) Anderson beat
Paul Foster in the final match that ended 10-10, 10-9 to secure the
2013 World indoor title.
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In 2015 he won the triples gold medal at the ]Atlantic Bowls Championships
The Atlantic Bowls Championships was a lawn bowling competition held between national bowls organisations in the Atlantic region. The event was a qualifying event for the World Outdoor Bowls Championships until the 2021 announcement that it woul ...
. During the 2016 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The 2016 Just Retirement World Indoor Bowls Championship was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, from 08-24 January 2016.Nick Brett won the blue riband event (the Men's Singles) for the first time after beating ...
Anderson partnered up with Darren Burnett
Darren William Burnett (born 27 May 1976 in Arbroath) is a Scottish lawn bowler and indoor bowler.
Bowls career Commonwealth Games
At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he won a gold medal in men's singles after defeating Canada's Ryan Bester. In 2 ...
and the Scottish pair recorded their first Open Pairs title success.
In 2018 he won the Scottish International Open. Later that season, Anderson became a two-time World Open singles champion, winning the 2019 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The 2019 Just World Indoor Bowls Championship was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, from 10–27 January 2019. The event is organised by the World Bowls Tour.
Stewart Anderson won his second open singles ...
. He would defeat Simon Skelton in a tie-break in the final, where he would lose only one set in the championships.Scottish National Bowls Championships
The Scottish National Bowls Championships is one of the oldest bowls competitions in the world. In 1892 Mr James Brown of Sanquhar BC and Dr Clark of the Partick BC formed the Scottish Bowls Association and organised the first rink (fours) champ ...
pairs title with Steven Shields for Eddlewood BC. In 2020 he won his fourth World indoor title by winning the mixed pairs with Julie Forrest
Julie Forrest (born 3 November 1968) is a Scottish bowls player.
Bowls career Outdoors
Julie has won three World Outdoor medals, a silver medal in the fours at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg and two bronze medals as ...
and claimed a fifth when winning the open pairs for the second time with Darren Burnett in 2022.
In 2022, Anderson won the mixed pairs at the inaugural World Bowls Indoor Championships, partnering Alison Merrien
Alison Jayne Merrien (born 28 November 1974) is an indoor bowls player from Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.
Bowls career Indoors
Merrien won double gold in the women's singles defeating Karen Murphy and the mixed pairs with Simon Skelton the 201 ...
MBE, they defeated Michael Stepney
Michael Stepney (born 1980) is a Scottish international indoor bowler.
Bowls career
He won the Scottish National Singles Championship in 2009 and the British Isles Singles Championship the following year. In 2017 he finished runner-up in the ...
and Claire Anderson in the final. He also won the men's singles silver medal, losing to Michael Stepney in the final.
In 2022, he competed in the men's triples and the men's fours 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 November 2022, he won the Scottish International Open for the second time.
In 2023, he won the mixed pairs final at the 2023 World Indoor Bowls Championship ''This page is about the World Bowls Tour Championships.''
The 2023 Imagine Cruising World Indoor Bowls Championship took place at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, from 6 to 22 January 2023.
There were two preli ...
, with Ceri Ann Glen.
Personal life
He works for a joiners firm, and he married Scottish International bowler Claire Walker in April 2019.
References
External links
Stewart Anderson
at World Bowls Tour
The World Bowls Tour is an international organisation which promotes indoor bowls worldwide and organises competitions, including the World Indoor Bowls Championships with other bowls associations. Its parent organisation is the Professional Bowl ...
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1985 births
Living people
Scottish male bowls players
Indoor Bowls World Champions
Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland
Bowls players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games