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 outdoors National Title in 1999 and subsequent singles at the

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in 2000. Brett's greatest achievement before 2016 was winning the 2014 World Indoor Bowls Championship Pairs title partnering

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. It was 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 ...

that Brett became the World Singles Champion for the first time beating

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in a competitive final. Brett followed up his 2016 success by winning the mixed pairs title at the

2017 World Indoor Bowls Championship The 2017 Just World Indoor Bowls Championship was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, on 13–29 January 2017. Paul Foster of Scotland won the open singles to claim his fifth world singles title and Katherine ...

with Claire Johnston of Scotland. He then joined an exclusive group of players who have won five or more world indoor titles after winning both the open pairs and mixed pairs at the 2020 World Indoor Bowls Championship and he narrowly failed to become the first player to win the treble after losing to Paxton in the open singles final. Other major indoor wins include the 2015 International Open and the 2013 and 2014 Scottish International Open. In 2020, he was selected for the

2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship The 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship was to be the 14th edition of the World Championships to be held at the Broadbeach Bowls Club, Musgrave Hill Bowls Club and Club Helensvale on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. There were to be ei ...

in Australia. World ranked number one indoors he was unable to participate in the 2021 World Indoor Bowls Championship because he broke his arm following an accident playing golf. In 2022, he competed in the men's triples and the men's fours at the

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. The team of Brett,

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and

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won the triples gold medal and in the fours he also secured a bronze medal. The success during 2022 continued when he secured a second national title, winning the 2022 pairs with Lewis Baker.

Personal life

Brett is a supervisor by trade and is married with two children. Due to injury in 2021 he was unable to compete in the World Indoor Championships and consequently joined the commentary team for the event.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brett, Nick 1974 births Living people English male bowls players Indoor Bowls World Champions Bowls European Champions Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Bowls players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games British sports broadcasters Sports commentators Sportspeople from Peterborough 21st-century English people