Lawn bowls at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Lawn bowls at the 2022 Commonwealth Games | |
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Venue | Victoria Park |
Dates | 29 July – 6 August 2022 |
Competitors | 227 from 24 nations |
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Lawn bowls was among the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to be held in England. This was the twenty-first staging of lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games having featured in every Games bar 1966, and the third staging within England specifically.
The competition was scheduled to take place between 29 July and 6 August 2022, spread across eleven events (including three parasport events).[1][2]
Schedule
The competition schedule was as follows:[1][2]
G | Group stage | ¼ | Quarter-finals | ½ | Semi-finals | B | Bronze medal match | F | Gold medal match |
Date Event | Fri 29 | Sat 30 | Sun 31 | Mon 1 | Tue 2 | Wed 3 | Thu 4 | Fri 5 | Sat 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Session → | M | A | M | A | M | A | M | A | M | A | M | A | M | A | M | A | M | A | |||||||||||
Men's singles | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Men's pairs | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Men's triples | G | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||||||||||||
Men's fours | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Women's singles | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Women's pairs | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Women's triples | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Women's fours | G | G | G | ¼ | ½ | B | F | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Parasport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Men's pairs B6–8 | G | G | G | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Women's pairs B6–8 | G | G | G | ½ | B | F | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Mixed pairs B2–3 | G | G | G | G | G | ½ | B | F |
Venue
The lawn bowls competition will be held at the Victoria Park bowling greens in Leamington Spa.[3][4]
Qualification (parasport)
A total of 36 parasport bowlers (18 pairs) nominally qualify to compete at the Games.[5][6] They qualify for each event as follows:
- One pair from the host nation.
- Five pairs (one per nation, excluding the hosts) receive a CGF / International Bowls for the Disabled (IBD) Bipartite Invitation.
Medal table
* Host nation (England)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
2 | Scotland | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
3 | England* | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
4 | Wales | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
5 | India | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Northern Ireland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
7 | Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
South Africa | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
9 | Guernsey | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
10 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Totals (10 entries) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |
Medallists
Men
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Singles details | Aaron Wilson Australia | Gary Kelly Northern Ireland | Iain McLean Scotland |
Pairs details | Wales Daniel Salmon Jarrad Breen | England Jamie Walker Sam Tolchard | Scotland Paul Foster Alex Marshall |
Triples details | England Louis Ridout Nick Brett Jamie Chestney | Australia Barrie Lester Carl Healey Ben Twist | Wales Owain Dando Ross Owen Jonathan Tomlinson |
Fours details | Northern Ireland Sam Barkley Adam McKeown Ian McClure Martin McHugh | India Sunil Bahadur Navneet Singh Chandan Kumar Singh Dinesh Kumar | England Louis Ridout Nick Brett Jamie Chestney Sam Tolchard |
Women
Para-sport
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's pairs B6–8 details | Scotland Garry Brown Kevin Wallace | Australia Damien Delgado Chris Flavel | England Craig Bowler Kieran Rollings |
Women's pairs B6–8 details | Scotland Rosemary Lenton Pauline Wilson | Australia Serena Bonnell Cheryl Lindfield | South Africa Desiree Levin Victoria van der Merwe |
Mixed pairs B2–3 details | Scotland Melanie Inness George Miller Robert Barr Sarah Jane Ewing | Wales Julie Thomas Mark Adams Gordon LLewellyn John Wilson | England Alison Yearling Susan Wherry Chris Turnbull Mark Wherry |
Participating nations
There were 24 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in lawn bowls with a total of 227 (118 men and 109 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.[7]
- Australia (18)
- Botswana (4)
- Brunei (6)
- Canada (10)
- Cook Islands (10)
- England (18)
- Falkland Islands (5)
- Fiji (10)
- Guernsey (4)
- India (10)
- Jamaica (2)
- Jersey (5)
- Kenya (2)
- Malaysia (10)
- Malta (8)
- Namibia (2)
- New Zealand (18)
- Niue (10)
- Norfolk Island (10)
- Northern Ireland (10)
- Scotland (18)
- Singapore (3)
- South Africa (18)
- Wales (16)
References
- ^ a b "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ a b Competition Schedule | Lawn Bowls and Para Lawn Bowls (PDF). BOCCG. pp. 25, 26. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ "Leamington to host Commonwealth Games bowls events in 2022". WarwickshireWorld. 21 December 2017. Archived from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ "Venues | VICTORIA PARK". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ Athlete Allocation System | Para Lawn Bowls (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / International Bowls for the Disabled. 18 November 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ Angus, Stevie (9 February 2021). "IBD Outdoor World Championships 2021". Disability Bowls England. Archived from the original on 22 February 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ "Lawn Bowls and Para Lawn Bowls Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
External links
- Official website: 2022 Commonwealth Games – Lawn Bowls and Para Lawn Bowls
- Lawn Bowls and Para Lawn Bowls – Results Book