Dai Wilkins Explained

Dai Wilkins
Nationality:British (Welsh)
Birth Date:22 July 1942
Club:Pontrhydyfen (outdoors)
Port Talbot (indoors)

David Wilkins better known as Dai Wilkins (born 22 July 1942) is a former Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]

Bowls career

He won two Commonwealth Games bronze medals in the fours at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.[2]

He is a seven times Welsh National Bowls Championships winner, winning the singles in 1983[3] & 1996,[4] [5] the pairs in 1987 with his son Jeff, triples winner in 1986 & 1991 and fours winner in 2012 & 2013.[6]

Football

He had a soccer trial with Cardiff City F.C. before playing rugby for Glynneath RFC.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Profile. Bowls tawa. 2017-01-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20170106011032/http://bowlstawa.com/titles/players/titles/2400. 2017-01-06. dead.
  2. Web site: COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS. GBR Athletics.
  3. News: Price takes singles title . South Wales Echo . 22 August 1983 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 24 August 2024.
  4. Book: Sullivan, Patrick. Guinness Bowls Records. 1986. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. 0-85112-414-3.
  5. Web site: WBA Handbook. Welsh Bowls.
  6. Book: Newby, Donald. The Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook. 1988. Telegraph Publications. 0-86367-220-5.

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