Norman King (bowls) explained

Norman King
Nationality:British (English)
Birth Date:1914 8, df=yes
Birth Place:Sunderland, England
Death Date:c. December 1997 (aged 83)
Death Place:Bedford, England
Sport:Lawn bowls
Club:Mansfield
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Norman King (7 August 1914 – c. December 1997) was an English international lawn bowler.[1]

Bowls career

King won a gold medal in the fours with Cliff Stroud, Ted Hayward and Peter Line at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.[2]

He also won two Commonwealth Games medals; a gold in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff and another gold in the pairs with Peter Line at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[3] [4] [5]

He won the National Championship title in 1957.[6] [7]

Personal life

He was an agent and salesman by trade and took up bowls in 1942 during wartime holidays.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Norman King Profile. Bowls tawa.
  2. Web site: World Bowls Champions. Burnside Bowling Club.
  3. Web site: COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS. GBR Athletics.
  4. Web site: "Empire Games Results." Times, 26 July 1958, p. 3. Times Digital Archives.
  5. News: Bowls . Cambridge Daily News . 7 February 1970 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 14 August 2024.
  6. Web site: Past Records. Bowls England.
  7. News: Middlesex Bowls King . Daily Herald . 24 August 1957 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 19 August 2024.
  8. Book: Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard. the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. 1974. Robert Hale and Company. 0-7091-3658-7.