Clementi Cecil Delgado Explained

Saco Delgado
Nationality: Hong Kong & USA
Birth Date:1930 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Hong Kong
Death Place:Santa Clara, California

Clementi Cecil Delgado better known as Saco Delgado (1930-1997), was a Hong Kong international lawn and indoor bowler.

Bowls career

Delgado was born in Hong Kong in 1930 to Portuguese parents and was an accountant before he started bowling in 1958. He won the Hong Kong lawn bowls championship ten times before winning the rinks/fours gold medal at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[1]

He won the gold medal in the pairs with Eric Liddell at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing in addition to a bronze medal in the fours event. In 1978 he won another gold medal in the men's pairs with Liddell at the 1978 Commonwealth Games.[2] [3]

Personal life

He was a banking official by trade. [4] He became a US citizen in 1984.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Bell, Harry E. 3rd World Bowls Championship, South Africa 1976. 1976. J.G.Ince & Son Ltd.
  2. Book: Newby, Donald. Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. 1987. Telegraph Publications. 0-86367-220-5.
  3. Web site: COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS. GRB Athletics.
  4. Book: Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard. the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. 1974. Robert Hale and Company. 0-7091-3658-7.