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Alex Lightbody

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Alex Lightbody
Personal information
Full nameAlexander Lightbody
NationalityBritish
Born1966 [1]
Newtownards, County Down
Years active1982 - Present
Sport
SportLawn & Indoor bowls
ClubOutdoors - Castle BC, Bangor BC, Pickie BC
Indoors - Belfast IBC
Medal record
Representing combined Ireland
British Isles Championships
Gold medal – first place 1993 singles
Irish National Bowls Championships
Gold medal – first place 1992 singles

Alex Lightbody (born 1966) is an international lawn bowler, who has represented Ireland (combined) and Northern Ireland at international level.

Bowls career

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Lightbody won the Irish National Bowls Championships singles in 1992.[2] Trailing in the final against Gary McCloy 14–9, he came back to secure a 21–15 victory. In doing so he became the first Bangor bowler since Billy Tate to win the title.[3]

The 1992 Irish title qualified him for the 1993 British Isles Bowls Championships and he subsequently won the singles held in Worthing [4] becoming the first Irish winner since David Corkill in 1980.[5]

Other titles

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  • Northern Ireland Bowls Association (NIBA) singles title: 1992[6]
  • Northern Ireland Bowls Association (NIBA) fours title: 1983[7]

European ranking

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Lightbody has a Professional Bowls Association European ranking of 96 in 2021.[8]

References

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  1. ^ ""Lightbody claims singles title." Times, 7 July 1993, p. 36". Times Digital Archives.
  2. ^ "IBA Singles winners". Irish Bowling Association.
  3. ^ "Lightbody ends Bangor famine". Sunday Life. 6 September 1992. p. 63. Retrieved 31 August 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
  5. ^ "'Lightbody claims singles title'". The Times. 7 July 1993. p. 36. Retrieved 21 April 2021 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  6. ^ "Past Winners – Open Singles". NIBA. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Past-Winners-Fours". NIBA. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  8. ^ "european-ranking-list". Professional Bowls Association. Retrieved 5 September 2021.