Neil Speirs Explained

Neil Speirs
Birth Date:18 January 1979
Birth Place:Edinburgh, Scotland
Sport:Lawn bowls
Height:6ft 0ins
Weight:89kg
Club:Kirkliston (Outdoor)

Neil Speirs (born 18 January 1979) is a Scottish international lawn bowler.[1] [2]

Bowls career

He competed for Scotland in the men's fours at the 2014 Commonwealth Games[3] where he won a gold medal.[4]

He had won the gold medal at the 2006 World Cup Singles in Warilla, New South Wales, Australia[5] and in 2015 he won the triples gold medal and fours silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[6]

Notes and References

  1. News: Meikle . Stewart . Neil Speirs spearheads Lothians bid for indoor bowls glory . Edinburgh Evening News . 10 January 2014 . 25 October 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141025132339/http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/neil-speirs-spearheads-lothians-bid-for-indoor-bowls-glory-1-3263699 . 25 October 2014 . dead .
  2. News: Meikle . Stewart . Singles success for Neil Speirs . Edinburgh Evening News . 23 April 2014 . 25 October 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141025132715/http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/bowls-singles-success-for-neil-speirs-1-3384094 . 25 October 2014 . dead .
  3. News: Kirkliston's Neil Spiers set for Commonwealth Games after title victory . Linlithgow Gazette . 27 April 2014 .
  4. Web site: Glasgow 2014 profile . 25 October 2014.
  5. Web site: Past results. 29 April 2006 . The Telegraph.
  6. Web site: 2015 Atlantic Championships. World Bowls. 15 May 2021.