| Thomas Greechan | |
| Nationality: | British (Scottish / Jersey) |
| Birth Date: | 19 June 1976 |
| Birth Place: | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Sport: | Lawn bowls |
| Club: | St Brelade BC |
Thomas Greechan (born 19 June 1976) is a Scottish born international lawn bowls player from Jersey. He became the British singles champion after winning the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2016.[1]
Greechan has competed for Jersey at two World Bowls Championships in 2000 and 2012.
He has represented Jersey at two Commonwealth Games; at the 2002 and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[2] [3] [4]
In addition to his British Isles Championship success he won the Jersey's first World Singles Champion of Champions in 2011, in Hong Kong. He beat Jonathan Ross of Scotland in a tie-break set 5–0, despite dropping the first set.[5]
Greechan also medalled at the 2007 Atlantic Bowls Championships, with silver in the men's fours event.[6] [7] Jersey's bowls team, which finished second in the overall combined medal table at the Games, narrowly missed out on 2008 Channel Islands' Team of the Year to Jersey's cricketers.[8] [9]
In April 2015, Greechan won the IIBC Championships Mixed Pairs world title with his 14-year-old daughter, Chloe.[10] [11]
See main article: The Greechans. In 2012, Thomas Greechan was voted Channel Islands' Sports Personality of the Year and won Sports Person of the Year in Jersey.[12] [13] He has also been selected as Jersey's men's outdoor Bowler of the Year twice, in 2005, and 2006.[14]