Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games

Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games

Tournament information
Sport	Lawn bowls
Location	Various
Established	1930
Administrator	Commonwealth Games Federation

Bowls is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It has been a Commonwealth Games sport since the inaugural edition of the event's precursor, the 1930 British Empire Games. It is a core sport and must be included in the sporting programme of each edition of the Games; however, it was not included in the programme of the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica due to no sufficient bowling greens being available. Along with swimming, athletics, cycling, table tennis, powerlifting and triathlon, bowls is one of the EAD (Elite Athletes with a Disability) sports.

Editions

Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Best Nation
I	1930	Hamilton, Ontario	Canada	England
II	1934	London	England	England
III	1938	Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	New Zealand
IV	1950	Auckland	New Zealand	New Zealand
V	1954	Vancouver, British Columbia	Canada	Southern Rhodesia, South Africa
VI	1958	Cardiff	Wales	South Africa
VII	1962	Perth, Western Australia	Australia	England
IX	1970	Edinburgh	Scotland	England
X	1974	Christchurch	New Zealand	England
XI	1978	Edmonton, Alberta	Canada	Hong Kong
XII	1982	Brisbane, Queensland	Australia	Scotland
XIII	1986	Edinburgh	Scotland	Wales
XIV	1990	Auckland	New Zealand	Australia
XV	1994	Victoria, British Columbia	Canada	Scotland
XVI	1998	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	South Africa
XVII	2002	Manchester	England	England
XVIII	2006	Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	Australia
XIX	2010	Delhi	India	South Africa
XX	2014	Glasgow	Scotland	South Africa
XXI	2018	Gold Coast, Queensland	Australia	Australia
XXII	2022	Birmingham	England	Australia

Commonwealth champions

Commonwealth champions tabulated:

Men's singles

Year	Winner
1930	Robert Colquhoun
1934	Robert Sprot
1938	Horace Harvey
1950	James "Ham" Pirret
1954	Ralph Hodges
1958	Phineas 'Pinky' Danilowitz
1962	David Bryant (1/4)
1970	David Bryant (2/4)
1974	David Bryant (3/4)
1978	David Bryant (4/4)
1982	Willie Wood

Year	Winner
1986	Ian Dickison
1990	Rob Parrella
1994	Richard Corsie
1998	Roy Garden
2002	Bobby Donnelly
2006	Kelvin Kerkow
2010	Robert Weale
2014	Darren Burnett
2018	Aaron Wilson (1/2)
2022	Aaron Wilson (2/2)

Men's pairs

Year	Winner
1930	Tommy Hills & George Wright (1/2)
1934	Tommy Hills & George Wright (2/2)
1938	Lance Macey & Walter Denison
1950	Robert Henry & Phil Exelby
1954	William Rosbotham & Percy Watson
1958	John Morris & Richard Pilkington
1962	Bob McDonald & Robbie Robson
1970	Norman King & Peter Line
1974	Jack Christie & Alex McIntosh
1978	Eric Liddell & Saco Delgado
1982	John Watson & David Gourlay Sr.

Year	Winner
1986	Grant Knox & George Adrain
1990	Ian Schuback & Trevor Morris
1994	Rex Johnston & Cameron Curtis
1998	Brett Duprez & Mark Jacobsen
2002	Alex Marshall (1/3) & George Sneddon
2006	Alex Marshall (2/3) & Paul Foster (1/2)
2010	Shaun Addinall & Gerry Baker
2014	Alex Marshall (3/3) & Paul Foster (2/2)
2018	Daniel Salmon (1/2) & Marc Wyatt
2022	Daniel Salmon (2/2) & Jarrad Breen

Men's triples

Year	Winner
2006	Bill Cornehls, Mark Casey & Wayne Turley
2010	Johann du Plessis, Wayne Perry & Gidion Vermeulen
2014	Petrus Breitenbach, Prince Neluonde & Bobby Donnelly
2018	Darren Burnett, Derek Oliver & Ronnie Duncan
2022	Louis Ridout, Nick Brett & Jamie Chestney

Men's fours

Year	Winner
1930	Ernie Gudgeon, James Edney, James Frith & Albert Hough
1934	Robert Slater, Ernie Gudgeon, Percy Tomlinson & Fred Biggin
1938	Bill Bremner, Alec Robertson, Ernie Jury & Bill Whittaker
1950	Herbert Currer, Harry Atkinson, Alfred Blumberg & Snowy Walker
1954	Frank Mitchell, George Wilson, John Anderson & Wilfred Randall
1958	Norman King, John Bettles, Walter Phillips & John Scadgell
1962	David Bryant, Les Watson, Sidney Drysdale & Tom Fleming
1970	Abdul Kitchell, Saco Delgado, George Souza Sr. & Roberto da Silva
1974	Kerry Clark, David Baldwin, John Somerville & Gordon Jolly
1978	Philip Chok, M B Hassan Jr., Omar Dallah & Roberto da Silva

Year	Winner
1982	Rob Dobbins, Keith Poole, Bert Sharp & Don Sherman
1986	Hafod Thomas, Jim Morgan, Robert Weale & Will Thomas
1990	Denis Love, George Adrain, Ian Bruce & Willie Wood
1994	Alan Lofthouse, Donald Piketh, Neil Burkett & Robert Rayfield
1998	Gary McCloy, Ian McClure(1/2), Martin McHugh(1/2) & Neil Booth
2002	John Ottaway, Simon Skelton, Robert Newman & David Holt
2014	Alex Marshall (1/2), Paul Foster (1/2), Neil Speirs & David Peacock
2018	Alex Marshall (2/2), Paul Foster (2/2), Derek Oliver & Ronnie Duncan
2022	Sam Barkley, Adam McKeown, Ian McClure(2/2), Martin McHugh(2/2)

Women's singles

Year	Winner
1986	Wendy Line
1990	Geua Vada Tau
1994	Margaret Johnston
1998	Lesley Hartwell
2002	Siti Zalina Ahmad (1/2)

Year	Winner
2006	Siti Zalina Ahmad (2/2)
2010	Natalie Melmore
2014	Jo Edwards (1/2)
2018	Jo Edwards (2/2)
2022	Ellen Ryan

Women's pairs

Year	Winner
1986	Margaret Johnston & Freda Elliott
1990	Judy Howat & Marie Watson
1994	Frances Whyte & Sarah Gourlay
1998	Margaret Letham & Joyce Lindores
2002	Jo Edwards & Sharon Sims

Year	Winner
2006	Lynsey Armitage & Karen Murphy
2010	Ellen Falkner & Amy Monkhouse
2014	Tracy-Lee Botha & Colleen Piketh
2018	Emma Firyana Saroji & Siti Zalina Ahmad
2022	Kristina Krstic & Ellen Ryan

Women's triples

Year	Winner
1982	Flo Kennedy, Anna Bates & Margaret Mills
2006	Azlina Arshad, Nor Iryani Azmi & Nor Hashimah Ismail
2010	Tracy-Lee Botha, Susan Nel & Santjie Steyn
2014	Sophie Tolchard, Ellen Falkner & Sian Gordon (1/2)
2018	Carla Krizanic, Natasha Scott & Rebecca Van Asch
2022	Jamie-Lea Winch, Natalie Chestney & Sian Honnor (2/2)

Women's fours

Year	Winner
1986	Linda Parker, Linda Evans, Joan Ricketts & Rita Jones
1990	Audrey Rutherford, Daphne Shaw, Dorothy Roche, Marion Stevens
1994	Anna Pretorius, Colleen Grondein, Hester Bekker (1/2), Lorna Trigwell (1/2)
1998	Loraine Victor, Trish Steyn, Hester Bekker (2/2), Lorna Trigwell (2/2)

Year	Winner
2002	Ellen Alexander, Shirley Page, Gill Mitchell, Carol Duckworth
2014	Esme Steyn, Santjie Steyn, Tracy-Lee Botha, Susan Nel
2018	Carla Krizanic, Kelsey Cottrell, Natasha Scott, Rebecca Van Asch
2022	Rupa Rani Tirkey, Nayanmoni Saikia, Lovely Choubey, Pinki Singh

Para-sport

Men's blind singles

Year	Winner
1994	Robert Brand

Men's Pairs

Year	Winner
2022	Garry Brown and Kevin Wallace

Women's blind singles

Year	Winner
1994	Catherine Portas
2002	Ruth Small

Women's Pairs

Year	Winner
2022	Rosemary Lenton Pauline Wilson

Mixed Pairs

Year	Winner
2018	Jake Fehlberg, Lynne Seymour
2022	Melanie Inness Robert Barr

Open triples

Year	Winner
2002	David Heddie, Ivan Prior & John Robertson
2014	Deon Van De Vyver, Roger Hagerty & Lobban Derrick
2018	Josh Thornton, Ken Hanson & Tony Bonnell

Mixed fours B2 & B3

Year	Winner
2014	Geoffrey Newcombe, Gyndolene Nel, Hermanus Scholtz & Annatjie van Rooyen

All-time Overall medal table

*Note : From editions 1994 to 2002, two bronze medals were awarded in each event.

Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Overall table including All time Para-Lawn bowl medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England	21	11	23	55
2	Scotland	18	10	13	41
3	Australia	17	25	11	53
4	South Africa	17	12	15	44
5	New Zealand	16	12	18	46
6	Wales	5	11	15	31
7	Northern Ireland	5	5	12	22
8	Malaysia	4	5	7	16
9	Hong Kong	3	2	4	9
10	Zimbabwe	3	1	2	6
11	India	1	1	0	2
	Papua New Guinea	1	1	0	2
13	Canada	0	10	3	13
14	Guernsey	0	2	0	2
15	Zambia	0	1	1	2
16	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Namibia	0	1	0	1
18	Rhodesia and Nyasaland	0	0	4	4
19	Fiji	0	0	2	2
	Norfolk Island	0	0	2	2
21	Botswana	0	0	1	1
	Cook Islands	0	0	1	1
	Malta	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		111	111	135	357

Lawn Bowls All-Time Medal Table

*Note : From editions 1994 to 2002, two bronze medals were awarded in each event.

Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England	20	11	19	50
2	Australia	15	22	9	46
3	South Africa	15	11	13	39
4	New Zealand	15	10	17	42
5	Scotland	13	9	11	33
6	Wales	5	8	14	27
7	Northern Ireland	5	5	12	22
8	Malaysia	4	5	5	14
9	Hong Kong	3	2	2	7
10	Zimbabwe	3	0	2	5
11	India	1	1	0	2
	Papua New Guinea	1	1	0	2
13	Canada	0	10	2	12
14	Guernsey	0	2	0	2
15	Zambia	0	1	1	2
16	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Namibia	0	1	0	1
18	Rhodesia and Nyasaland	0	0	4	4
19	Fiji	0	0	2	2
	Norfolk Island	0	0	2	2
21	Botswana	0	0	1	1
	Cook Islands	0	0	1	1
	Malta	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		100	100	118	318

Para-Lawn Bowls All-time medal table

*Note : From editions 1994 to 2002, two bronze medals were awarded in each event.

Para-Lawns bowls appeared in editions 1994, 2002, 2014-22

Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Scotland	5	1	0	6
2	Australia	2	3	2	7
3	South Africa	2	1	2	5
4	New Zealand	1	2	1	4
5	England	1	0	4	5
6	Wales	0	3	1	4
7	Zimbabwe	0	1	0	1
8	Hong Kong	0	0	2	2
	Malaysia	0	0	2	2
10	Canada	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		11	11	15	37

See also

• World Bowls Events
• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls

External links

• Commonwealth Games sport index