Jock Thompson

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Jock Thompson
Personal information
NationalityScottish / Welsh
Born(1920-02-16)16 February 1920
Hawick, Scotland
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubRhiwbina BC
Medal record
Representing  Wales
British Isles Championships
Gold medal – first place 1983 pairs
Gold medal – first place 1966 fours

John Dawson Hedley Thompson was a Scottish born former Welsh international lawn bowler.

Bowls career[]

Introduced to bowls by his father in 1938 and moved to Wales at the end of World War II. Thompson was a Welsh international from 1961 to 1973 and captain from 1966 to 1968.

He bowled and captained Wales in the 1966 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in New South Wales, Australia.[1]

He won the 1965 fours title and 1982 pairs title at the British Isles Bowls Championships and the Welsh National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Rhiwbina Bowls Club.[2]

Personal life[]

He was a civil servant by trade.

References[]

  1. ^ Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
  2. ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
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