Roy Fulton
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| Nationality | Northern Irish / Scottish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 June 1916 Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Coleraine BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Roy Fulton is a Scottish born former Irish international lawn bowler.[1][2]
Bowls career[]
He represented a combined Ireland team at the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966 [3] and won a bronze medal in the singles at the championship.[4]
In addition he won a bronze medal at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and represented Northern Ireland at the Lawn Bowls at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games and Lawn bowls at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.[5]
He was also seven time singles champion at the Irish National Bowls Championships (1956, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1965 1967, 1971) in addition to six pairs (1951, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1973).[6] He also won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1968.[7] [8]
Personal life[]
He was a former rugby player with Hillhead High School and a Scottish schoolboys billiards international. He took up bowling in 1946 before switching allegiance to Ireland.[9]
References[]
- ^ "profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics.
- ^ Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
- ^ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "IBA Singles winners". Irish Bowls Association.
- ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
- ^ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- 1916 births
- Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Bowls players at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games