Bowls is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It has been a Commonwealth Games sport since the inaugural edition of the event's precursor, the 1930 British Empire Games . It is a core sport and must be included in the sporting programme of each edition of the Games; however, it was not included in the programme of the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica due to no sufficient bowling greens being available. Along with swimming, athletics, cycling, table tennis, powerlifting and triathlon, bowls is one of the EAD (Elite Athletes with a Disability) sports.
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Games
Year
Host city
Host country
Best Nation
I
1930
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada
England
II
1934
London
England
England
III
1938
Sydney , New South Wales
Australia
New Zealand
IV
1950
Auckland
New Zealand
New Zealand
V
1954
Vancouver , British Columbia
Canada
, South Africa
VI
1958
Cardiff
Wales
South Africa
VII
1962
Perth , Western Australia
Australia
England
IX
1970
Edinburgh
Scotland
England
X
1974
Christchurch
New Zealand
England
XI
1978
Edmonton , Alberta
Canada
XII
1982
Brisbane , Queensland
Australia
XIII
1986
Edinburgh
Scotland
XIV
1990
Auckland
New Zealand
Australia
XV
1994
Victoria , British Columbia
Canada
Scotland
XVI
1998
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
XVII
2002
Manchester
England
England
XVIII
2006
Melbourne , Victoria
Australia
Australia
XIX
2010
Delhi
India
South Africa
XX
2014
Glasgow
Scotland
South Africa
XXI
2018
Gold Coast , Queensland
Australia
Australia
Commonwealth champions [ ]
Commonwealth champions tabulated:[2]
Men's singles [ ]
Men's pairs [ ]
Men's triples [ ]
Men's fours [ ]
Year
Winner
1930
Ernie Gudgeon , James Edney , James Frith & Albert Hough
1934
Robert Slater , Ernie Gudgeon , Percy Tomlinson & Fred Biggin
1938
Bill Bremner , Alec Robertson , Ernie Jury & Bill Whittaker
1950
Herbert Currer , Harry Atkinson , Alfred Blumberg & Norman Snowy Walker
1954
Frank Mitchell , George Wilson , John Anderson & Wilfred Randall
1958
Norman King , John Bettles , Walter Phillips & John Scadgell
1962
David Bryant , Les Watson , Sidney Drysdale & Tom Fleming
1970
Abdul Kitchell , Saco Delgado , George Souza Sr. & Roberto da Silva
1974
Kerry Clark , David Baldwin , John Somerville & Gordon Jolly
1978
Philip Chok , M B Hassan Jr. , Omar Dallah & Roberto da Silva
Year
Winner
1982
Rob Dobbins , Keith Poole , Bert Sharp & Don Sherman
1986
Hafod Thomas , Jim Morgan , Robert Weale & Will Thomas
1990
Denis Love , George Adrain , Ian Bruce & Willie Wood
1994
Alan Lofthouse , Donald Piketh , Neil Burkett & Robert Rayfield
1998
Gary McCloy , Ian McClure , Martin McHugh & Neil Booth
2002
John Ottaway , Simon Skelton , Robert Newman & David Holt
2014
Alex Marshall (1/2) , Paul Foster (1/2) , Neil Speirs & David Peacock
2018
Alex Marshall (2/2) , Paul Foster (2/2) , Derek Oliver & Ronnie Duncan
Women's singles [ ]
Women's pairs [ ]
Women's triples [ ]
Women's fours [ ]
Year
Winner
1986
Linda Parker , Linda Evans , Joan Ricketts & Rita Jones
1990
Audrey Rutherford , Daphne Shaw , Dorothy Roche , Marion Stevens
1994
Anna Pretorius , Colleen Grondein , Hester Bekker (1/2) , Lorna Trigwell (1/2)
1998
Loraine Victor , Trish Steyn , Hester Bekker (2/2) , Lorna Trigwell (2/2)
2002
Ellen Alexander , Shirley Page , Gill Mitchell , Carol Duckworth
2014
Esme Steyn , Santjie Steyn , Tracy-Lee Botha , Susan Nel
2018
Carla Krizanic , Kelsey Cottrell , Natasha Scott , Rebecca Van Asch
Para-sport [ ]
Men's blind singles [ ]
Women's blind singles [ ]
Year
Winner
1994
2002
Mixed pairs [ ]
Year
Winner
2018
,
Open triples [ ]
Year
Winner
2002
, &
2014
, &
2018
, &
Mixed fours B2 & B3 [ ]
Year
Winner
2014
, , &
All-time medal table [ ]
Updated after the 2018 Commonwealth Games
See also [ ]
References [ ]
External links [ ]
Sports at the
Commonwealth Games Core sports Optional sports Past sports Demonstration sports
Australian Rules Football
Lacrosse
Polo
Sepaktakraw
Show Jumping
Silambam
Silat
Wushu
Bowls competitions
Outdoors Outdoors (National Championships) Indoors Defunct
Asia Pacific Bowls Championships
Atlantic Bowls Championships
Paralympics