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Les Gillett
Personal information
Nationality England
Born (1970-11-17) 17 November 1970 (age 53)
Sport
Club(indoor) Leicester
Medal record
Representing  England
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2001 Great Yarmouth Men's Pairs
Gold medal – first place 2017 Great Yarmouth Open Pairs

Les Gillett (born 17 November 1970) is an English international indoor and lawn bowls player.[1] He is nicknamed Razor.

Bowls career

He won the 2001 World Indoor Bowls Championship pairs title in Great Yarmouth with bowls partner Mark McMahon.[2]

Sixteen years later he won his second title when he won the Open Pairs with Jason Greenslade at the 2017 World Indoor Bowls Championship in Great Yarmouth.[3][4]

Major wins include the 1997 International Open and 2002 Welsh Open and is also a winner of three National Titles in 1993 and 1994 when representing Cheltenham and Gloucestershire and 1998 when representing Oxfordshire and Banbury Borough.[5] He now represents the Leicester indoor club.[6]

Personal life

He is an estimator/buyer by trade and is married to Sadie Gillett with three children.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Les Gillett Profile". World Bowls Tour.
  2. ^ "Bowls pair slam crowd's "ignorance"". BBC Sport.
  3. ^ "World Indoor Bowls: Jason Greenslade and Les Gillett win world titles". BBC Sport.
  4. ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa.
  5. ^ "Past Records". Bowls England.
  6. ^ a b "Profile". World Bowls TV.