Neil Speirs
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Nationality | Scottish | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Edinburgh, Scotland | 18 January 1979||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Neil Speirs (born 18 January 1979) is a Scottish international lawn bowler.[1][2]
Bowls career[]
He competed for Scotland in the men's fours at the 2014 Commonwealth Games[3] where he won a gold medal.[4]
He had won the gold medal at the 2006 World Cup Singles in Warilla, New South Wales, Australia[5] and in 2015 he won the triples gold medal and fours silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships.[6]
References[]
- ^ Meikle, Stewart (10 January 2014). "Neil Speirs spearheads Lothians bid for indoor bowls glory". Edinburgh Evening News. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ Meikle, Stewart (23 April 2014). "Singles success for Neil Speirs". Edinburgh Evening News. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ "Kirkliston's Neil Spiers set for Commonwealth Games after title victory". Linlithgow Gazette. 27 April 2014.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 profile". Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ "Past results". The Telegraph.
- ^ "2015 Atlantic Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
Categories:
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland
- Scottish male bowls players
- Sportspeople from Edinburgh
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- British bowls biography stubs