Don Woolnough Explained

Don Woolnough
Birth Date:	1920 6, df=yes
Death Date:	2003
Club:	Victoria

Donald Adrian Woolnough (1920–2003) was an Australian international lawn bowler.^[1]

Bowls career

World Championships

Woolnough won a silver medal in the fours with Leigh Bishop, Barry Salter and Keith Poole, a bronze medal in the pairs with Bob Middleton and a bronze medal in the team event (Leonard Cup) at the 1976 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg.^[2]

Coaching

He coached the 1990 Commonwealth Games Australian bowls team.

Awards

Woolnough was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1995 Australia Day Honours for "service to lawn bowls"^[3] and the Australian Sports Medal in 2000.^[4] He died in 2003 and was posthumously inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame in 2015.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Don Woolnough Profile. Bowls tawa. 31 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160531110243/http://bowlstawa.com/titles/players/titles/2343. 31 May 2016. dead.
2. Web site: World Bowls Champions. Burnside Bowling Club.
3. Web site: Donald Adrian Woolnough. honours.pmc.gov.au. 2019-08-09.
4. Web site: Donald Woolnough, OAM. honours.pmc.gov.au. 2019-08-09.
5. Web site: Vics recognised at Bowls Australia awards. Bowls Victoria.