Lawn bowls at the 1978 Commonwealth Games

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Lawn bowls
at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
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VenueEdmonton
Dates03 August – 12 August 1978
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The lawn bowls competition at the 1978 Commonwealth Games took place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 3-12 August 1978.[1]

Medallists[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles England
David Bryant
Australia
John Snell
Wales
John Russell Evans
Men's pairs Hong Kong
Eric Liddell
Saco Delgado
Scotland
Alex McIntosh
Willie Wood
Wales
Jim Morgan
Ray Williams
Men's fours Hong Kong
Philip Chok
M B Hassan Jr.
Omar Dallah
Roberto da Silva
New Zealand
David Baldwin
Morgan Moffat
John Malcolm
Phil Skoglund
Wales
Ellis Stanbury
Gwyn Evans
Ian Sutherland
John Thomson

Results[]

[2] David Bryant defended his title with a fourth successive Commonwealth Games singles gold medal, the fifth of his medals cache despite not competing in 1966.
Hong Kong win both the Pairs and Fours.

Men's singles – round robin[]

Pos Player P W L F A Pts
1 England David Bryant 15 13 2 310 172 26
2 Australia John Snell 15 11 4 288 210 22
3 Wales John Russell Evans 15 11 4 286 215 22
4 New Zealand Kerry Clark 15 10 5 292 205 20
5 Scotland David McGill 15 10 5 277 233 20
6 Canada 15 9 6 280 238 18
7 Hong Kong George Souza Jr. 15 9 6 269 231 18
8 Jersey 15 9 6 268 250 18
9 Papua New Guinea 15 8 8 260 245 16
10 Northern Ireland Stan Espie 15 7 8 242 266 14
11 Guernsey 15 7 8 235 276 14
12 Malawi 15 5 10 220 278 10
13 Fiji 15 5 10 218 279 10
14 Samoa 15 4 11 198 296 8
15 Eswatini 15 2 13 192 289 4
16 Kenya 15 0 15 163 315 0

Men's pairs – round robin[]

Pos Player P W D L F A Pts
1 Hong Kong Eric Liddell & Saco Delgado 13 10 0 3 291 213 20
2 Scotland Alex McIntosh & Willie Wood 13 9 0 4 321 211 18
3 Wales Jim Morgan & Ray Williams 13 9 0 4 304 213 18
4 Australia & 13 9 0 4 301 216 18
5 Canada Graham Jarvis & Ronnie Jones 13 9 0 4 296 221 18
6 New Zealand & Bob McDonald 13 8 1 4 286 239 17
7 Northern Ireland & John Higgins 13 8 0 5 275 228 16
8 England Chris Ward & Jim Ashman 13 7 1 5 259 237 15
9 Papua New Guinea & 13 7 0 6 230 256 14
10 Samoa & 13 3 1 9 198 291 7
11 Fiji & 13 3 0 10 217 282 6
12 Kenya & 13 2 2 9 217 350 6
13 Eswatini & 13 2 1 10 181 347 5
14 Malawi & 13 2 0 11 205 277 4

Men's fours – round robin[]

Pos Player P W D L F A Pts
1 Hong Kong Philip Chok, M B Hassan Jr., Omar Dallah, Roberto da Silva 14 12 0 2 300+ 226+ 24
2 New Zealand David Baldwin, Morgan Moffat, John Malcolm, Phil Skoglund 14 11 1 2 333 223 23
3 Wales Ellis Stanbury, Gwyn Evans, Ian Sutherland, John Thomson 14 9 2 3 304 225 20
4 Northern Ireland Jimmy Donnelly, , , Willie Watson 14 9 1 4 297+ 211+ 19
5 Scotland , , Dick Bernard, Willie Adrain 14 8 2 4 303 256 18
6 England Charlie Burch, Mal Hughes, Bob Robertson, Bill Irish 14 8 1 5 285 218 17
7 Australia , Errol Bungey, , 14 7 0 6 272 256 15
8 Zambia , , , 14 7 0 7 275 265 14
9 Guernsey , , , 14 6 0 7 254 303 13
10 Kenya , , , 14 5 0 8 232 323 11
11 Papua New Guinea , , , 14 5 0 9 254 263 10
12 Fiji , , Peter Fong, 14 4 1 8 251 291 10
13 Canada , Burnie Gill, James Morrison, 14 4 0 10 249 293 8
14 Eswatini , , , 14 3 0 11 206 320 6
15 Samoa , , , 14 1 0 11 208 350 2

+ Missing Hong Kong v N Ireland score

References[]

  1. ^ "Times Archives". The Times.
  2. ^ The complete book of the Commonwealth Games. 2013. ISBN 9781291576382.

See also[]

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