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 Parliament Hill |
Norman King (7 August 1914 – c. December 1997) was an English international lawn bowler.[1]
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]
He was an agent and salesman by trade and took up bowls in 1942 during wartime holidays.[8]