Anthony Allcock (born 1955) is an English

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player. Born in

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'', 22 October 1996 he is considered to be one of the leading bowlers of his generation and was twice world outdoor singles champion (1992 and 1996) and three times World Indoor Singles Champion (1986, 1987 and 2002).Whyte, Derrick (2002)
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Bowls career

World Outdoor Championships

Allcock won double

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at the

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in Melbourne in the team event (Leonard Cup) and triples with Jimmy Hobday and the legendary David Bryant. Four years later he won two more medals including the gold medal in the fours with George Turley, John Bell and Julian Haines at the

1984 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 1984 Men's World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at Westburn Park in Aberdeen, Scotland, from 11 to 28 July 1984. Peter Belliss won the singles defeating Willie Wood in the final. Wood qualified for the final because he finished with a se ...

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. After winning three more medals at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in

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he went on to win two singles gold medals at successive championships. They were 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 ...

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and the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in

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. With his eleven world indoor titles he has won seventeen world titles in total.

Commonwealth Games

Allcock played in three successive Commonwealth Games in 1990, 1994 and 1998. He won

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in the

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, Canada. Allcock was appointed the bowls performance coach for the England team at the

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."England job for Allcock", ''

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'', 5 June 2001 He is the current

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of Bowls England.Perris, Jeff (2008) ''All About Bowls: The History, Construction and Maintenance of Bowling'', Sports Turf Research Institute, , p. 3-4

World Indoor Championships

Allcock was also three times singles and eight times pairs champion at the

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.Footman, Tony (ed.) (2000) ''Guinness World Records 2001'', IBS, , p. 205 The singles wins were in

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and

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and the pairs (five with David Bryant) were in

, 1989,

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(and one each with Mervyn King and David Holt) were in

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and

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National

He has won eight

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titles, singles (1990, 1991), triples (1990, 1995), fours (1994) and junior singles (1975, 1977, 1981) bowling for Belgrave BC and then Cheltenham BC. He has also won the singles at the

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in 1992.

Personal life

Allcock is now chief executive of Bowls England. Having been appointed a

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(MBE) in the 1989 New Year Honours for services to bowls, he was promoted to

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(OBE) in the

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for services to lawn bowls.

Publications and videos

Allcock has written several books on bowls, and released a series of instructional videos on the subject.

Books

*Allcock, Tony (1987) ''Improve Your Bowls'', HarperCollinsWillow, *Allcock, Tony & Rhys Jones, David (1988) ''Bowls Skills'', Golden Books, *Allcock, Tony (1989) ''End to End: A Year in Bowls'', Heinemann Kingswood, *Bryant, David; Allcock, Tony & Horton, Edward (1994) ''Bowl to Win'', HarperCollinsWillow, *Allcock, Tony ''Winning Bowls'', Hutchinson,

Videos

*''Tony Allcock's Art of Bowls'' (4 volumes)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Allcock, Tony English male bowls players Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games 1955 births Living people Sportspeople from Leicestershire Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Bowls World Champions Indoor Bowls World Champions Officers of the Order of the British Empire Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games