Gary Smith (bowls)
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Gary Smith is a former English lawn and indoor bowler, born on 13 October 1958. He is not to be confused with the Durham indoor bowler Gary R Smith.
Career
Smith partnered Andy Thomson when they won the 1993 World Indoor Bowls Championship Pairs. He started playing at the age of 15 and played for the Blackheath and Greenwich bowls clubs and the Cyphers indoor club at Beckenham.[1]
Smith also won the EIBA Pairs in 1986, 1991 & 1994 and Fours in 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992 & 1993. In 1988 he experienced Singles success after winning the EIBA Singles and one year later captured the 1988 CIS Insurance UK singles title.
He represented England in the pairs partnering Andy Thomson, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, and they won a bronze medal.[2][3][4]
He is also a three times outdoor National champion.[5]
References
- ^ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
- ^ "1994 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1994". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Past Records". Bowls England.