Dai Wilkins
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| Nationality | Welsh | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 July 1942 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Pontrhydyfen (outdoors) Port Talbot (indoors) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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David 'Dai' Wilkins (born 22 July 1942) is a former Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career[]
He won two Commonwealth Games bronze medals in the fours at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.[2]
He is a seven times Welsh National Bowls Championships winner, winning the singles in 1983 & 1996,[3][4] the pairs in 1987 with his son Jeff, triples winner in 1986 & 1991 and fours winner in 2012 & 2013.[5]
Football[]
He had a soccer trial with Cardiff City F.C. before playing rugby for Glynneath RFC.
References[]
- ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa. Archived from the original on 2017-01-06. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ^ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- ^ "WBA Handbook" (PDF). Welsh Bowls.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1988). The Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
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- 1942 births
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales
- Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Welsh male bowls players
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
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