Norman King (bowls)

Norman King
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born(1914-08-07)7 August 1914
Sunderland, England
Diedc. December 1997 (aged 83)
Bedford, England
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubMansfield
Parliament Hill
Medal record
Representing England
World Outdoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 1972 Worthing fours
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1958 Cardiff fours
Gold medal – first place 1970 Edinburgh pairs

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[3] and another gold in the pairs with Peter Line at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[4][5][6]

He won the National Championship title in 1957.[7][8]

Personal life

He was an agent and salesman by trade and took up bowls in 1942 during wartime holidays.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Norman King Profile". Bowls tawa.
  2. ^ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
  3. ^ "Splendid tribute to bowler". Peterborough Evening Telegraph. 13 February 1958. Retrieved 28 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
  5. ^ ""Empire Games Results." Times, 26 July 1958, p. 3". The Times. Times Digital Archives. 26 July 1958. p. 3.
  6. ^ "Bowls". Cambridge Daily News. 7 February 1970. Retrieved 14 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ^ "Past Records". Bowls England.
  8. ^ "Middlesex Bowls King". Daily Herald. 24 August 1957. Retrieved 19 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.