Lawn bowls at the 1978 Commonwealth Games explained

Event:	Lawn bowls
Games:	1978
Venue:	Edmonton
Dates:	03 August – 12 August 1978
Prev:	1974
Next:	1982

The lawn bowls competition at the 1978 Commonwealth Games took place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 3-12 August 1978.^[1]

Medallists

width=110	Event	width=200 style="background-color: gold;"	Gold	width=200 style="background-color: silver;"	Silver	width=200 style="background-color: #cc9966;"	Bronze
Men's singles	David Bryant	John Snell
Men's pairs		Alex McIntosh Willie Wood	Jim Morgan Ray Williams
Men's fours	Philip Chok M B Hassan Jr. Omar Dallah Roberto da Silva	David Baldwin Morgan Moffat John Malcolm Phil Skoglund	Ellis Stanbury Gwyn Evans Ian Sutherland John Thomson

Results

^[2] David Bryant defended his title with a fourth successive Commonwealth Games singles gold medal, the fifth of his medals cache despite not competing in 1966.
Hong Kong win both the Pairs and Fours.

Men's singles – round robin

width=20	Pos	width=200	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	L	width=30	F	width=30	A	width=20	Pts
1	David Bryant	15	13	2	310	172	26
2	John Snell	15	11	4	288	210	22
3	John Russell Evans	15	11	4	286	215	22
4	Kerry Clark	15	10	5	292	205	20
5	David McGill	15	10	5	277	233	20
6	Bruce Matheson	15	9	6	280	238	18
7		15	9	6	269	231	18
8	Arthur McKernan	15	9	6	268	250	18
9	Robert Madden	15	8	8	260	245	16
10	Stan Espie	15	7	8	242	266	14
11	Charlie Woodhard	15	7	8	235	276	14
12	Cyril Turner	15	5	10	220	278	10
13	Ram Harakh	15	5	10	218	279	10
14	Si’imoa Tolova’a	15	4	11	198	296	8
15	Thomas Green	15	2	13	192	289	4
16	Denis Gosden	15	0	15	163	315	0

Men's pairs – round robin

width=20	Pos	width=400	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	D	width=20	L	width=30	F	width=30	A	width=20	Pts
1		13	10	0	3	291	213	20
2		13	9	0	4	321	211	18
3	Jim Morgan & Ray Williams	13	9	0	4	304	213	18
4		13	9	0	4	301	216	18
5		13	9	0	4	296	221	18
6		13	8	1	4	286	239	17
7		13	8	0	5	275	228	16
8		13	7	1	5	259	237	15
9		13	7	0	6	230	256	14
10		13	3	1	9	198	291	7
11	George Thaggard & Peter Oates	13	3	0	10	217	282	6
12	Harry Smith & Reg Fright	13	2	2	9	217	350	6
13		13	2	1	10	181	347	5
14		13	2	0	11	205	277	4

Men's fours – round robin

width=20	Pos	width=500	Player	width=20	P	width=20	W	width=20	D	width=20	L	width=30	F	width=30	A	width=20	Pts
1		14	12	0	2	300+	226+	24
2	David Baldwin, Morgan Moffat, John Malcolm, Phil Skoglund	14	11	1	2	333	223	23
3	Ellis Stanbury, Gwyn Evans, Ian Sutherland, John Thomson	14	9	2	3	304	225	20
4		14	9	1	4	297+	211+	19
5		14	8	2	4	303	256	18
6		14	8	1	5	285	218	17
7	Clarence Watkins, Errol Bungey, John Wilson, Philip Bushby	14	7	0	6	272	256	15
8		14	7	0	7	275	265	14
9	Clarence Blondel, Cyril Smith, Derek Hurford, Norman Leber	14	6	0	7	254	303	13
10	Clifford De Rungary, High Barnes, Sydney Meredith, Williams Watson	14	5	0	8	232	323	11
11		14	5	0	9	254	263	10
12		14	4	1	8	251	291	10
13	Barrie McFadden, Burnie Gill, James Morrison, Neal Salkeld	14	4	0	10	249	293	8
14		14	3	0	11	206	320	6
15	Ale Sam Ale, Falevi Petana, Lata’a Devoe, Sioane Tapasu Lino	14	1	0	11	208	350	2

+ Missing Hong Kong v N Ireland score

See also

• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
• Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games

Notes and References

1. Web site: Times Archives. The Times.
2. Book: The complete book of the Commonwealth Games. 2013. Lulu.com . 9781291576382.