The 2016 Just Retirement World Indoor Bowls Championship was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea,
Great Yarmouth,
England
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, from 08-24 January 2016.
Nick Brett
Nick Brett (born 14 May 1974) is an English lawn and indoor bowler.
Bowls career
Brett bowls for the Huntingdon indoor bowls club and Brampton outdoor bowls club. He was ranked the indoor world number 1 in 2015 and 2016. and also won an outdoo ...
won the blue riband event (the Men's Singles) for the first time after beating
Robert Paxton
Robert Owen Paxton (born June 15, 1932) is an American political scientist and historian specializing in Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era. He is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science in the Department of History ...
in a competitive final. In the Open Pairs
Stewart Anderson and
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 ...
recorded their first title success. Burnett doubled up by winning the Mixed Pairs title with
Katherine Rednall
Katherine Rednall (born 7 January 1996) is an English lawn and indoor bowler from Stowmarket. She is record five times women's world indoor singles champion.
Bowls career Indoors
Rednall became the youngest ever winner of a World Indoor Bowls ...
.
Ellen Falkner won the Women's Singles defeating
Rebecca Field in the final. This was Falkner's third title and was achieved ten years after her last success.
Winners
Draw and results
Men's singles
Women's singles
Open Pairs
Mixed Pairs
References
External links
Official website
{{World championships in 2016
World Indoor Bowls Championship
2016 in bowls
2016 in English sport
International sports competitions hosted by England