Wayne Willgress (born 1988) in
Mulbarton, Norfolk, is an English male
lawn and indoor bowler.
Bowls career
Willgress was an England Junior international and was the
National triples champion in 2007 and singles runner-up in 2012 during the
Men's National Championships.
He knocked out the world number one
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 ...
to reach the semi-finals of the
2018 World Indoor Bowls Championship. Willgress reached the quarter-finals of Men's Singles at the
2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The 2021 Just World Indoor Bowls Championship took place at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, from 8–24 January 2021. The event was organised by the World Bowls Tour, televised by the BBC and streamed live on YouT ...
but he and his quarter final opponent
Perry Martin were both forced to withdraw following a positive
Coronavirus test.
In 2021, he won the pairs National title with John Tufts. Two years later, he won another national title at the
2023 Bowls England National Finals
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, partnering his wife Rebecca in the
mixed pairs
Mixed is the past tense of ''mix''.
Mixed may refer to:
* Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category), an ethnicity category that has been used by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics since the 1991 Census
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.
Personal life
His wife is England international
Rebecca Willgress, formerly Rebecca Field.
References
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1988 births
Living people
English male bowls players
People from Mulbarton, Norfolk
Sportspeople from Norfolk