John Price (bowls)
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| Nationality | Welsh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 September 1960 Port Talbot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | (indoor) Port Talbot (outdoor) Aberavon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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John Haydn Price is a former Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler and current bowls commentator.
Bowls career
Early life
Brought into the game by his grandparents at the age of 10, and as a schoolboy, he initially played only during the summer holidays, winning a couple of open tournaments in partnership with his father Harry. He started to take bowls seriously after earning his first Wales cap in 1979.[1]
Price is one of the founder members of both the Professional Bowls Association and also the World Bowls Tour, and is a timeless ace on the portable rink, .
World Indoor Championships
Price is a four times World indoor champion, winning the singles in 1990. Price also made the 2005 final fifteen years after his first singles title was achieved, where he lost to Paul Foster in the final. He teamed up with Stephen Rees to lift the 1999 World Indoor Pairs,[2] and was twice World Mixed Pairs champion when he partnered Carl Ashby in the 2005 and 2006 finals.
Commonwealth Games
He was a pairs Commonwealth Games silver medallist at the 1994 Commonwealth Games with Robert Weale. He also represented Wales at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
National titles
He has amassed ten indoor Welsh National Titles and four indoor British Isle Titles[3] and two Welsh National Bowls Championships outdoor titles, the triples in 1982 and the pairs in 1981, the latter with his father Harry Price when bowling for Aberavon BC. The pair were then successful in winning the corresponding British Isles Bowls Championships.[4]
Administration & commentating
He is the Vice Chairperson of the Professional Bowls Association.[5] He assists David Corkill in the commentary box for the BBC during the televised stages of the World Indoor Bowls Championships.
References
- ^ "Welsh sporting greats: John Price". Welsh Sports News. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ^ "No surprises on world indoor championships' opening night". Nationwidebowler.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 May 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ^ "John Price". Worldbowlstour.com. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1989). Bowls Year Book 89. Daily Telegraph. ISBN 0-330-31093-3.
- ^ "About Us". PBA.