Gareth Humphreys
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| Nationality | British (Welsh) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 November 1935 Tylorstown, Rhondda | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | |||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Penrhys Park, followed by Barry Athletic BC | |||||||||||||||||||
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Gareth Humphreys (born 1935) is a former Welsh international lawn bowler.[1] In 2013, he received an MBE in the 2013 Birthday Honours for his voluntary services to lawn bowls.[2]
Bowls career[]
He won a bronze medal in the triples at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.[3]
In addition he won 15 national titles and 16 county titles and was capped 90 times by Wales from 1963 until 1978.[4]
He played for Barry Athletic Bowls Club from 1959 and represented Wales at the Lawn bowls at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in New Zealand.[5]
He is a four times Welsh National Champion, winning the triples in 1974 and the fours in 1963, 1969 and 1976, when bowling for the Barry Athletic Bowls Club.[6] He was the British Isles Bowls Championships fours winner in 1964.
Personal life[]
He was a third generation bowler following his grandfather and father (who was a Welsh international 1957-58) who introduced him into bowls during June 1945.[6][7]
References[]
- ^ "Gareth Humphreys Profile". Bowls tawa. Archived from the original on 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday Honour for South Wales Mr Bowls". Wales Online. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
- ^ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1991). Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "Barry Athletic Bowling Club marks start of Centenary Year". Barry Athletic Bowling Club.
- ^ a b Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ "Gareth Humphreys". Barry Athletic Bowls Club. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- 1935 births
- Living people
- Welsh male bowls players
- Bowls players at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Wales