Syd Thompson
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Nationality | Northern Ireland | |||||||||||||
Born | Belfast | 29 August 1912|||||||||||||
Died | 1998 Belfast | (aged 85–86)|||||||||||||
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Sport | Bowls | |||||||||||||
Partner | Sarah Ferguson Shaw | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sydney James Thompson (born 1912) is a former Irish international lawn and indoor bowler.[1] He played as Syd Thompson.
Bowls career[]
He served as the Northern Ireland Private Greens Bowling League (NIPGBL) President in 1974 and as Irish Bowling Association (IBA) and the British Isles Bowls Council (BIBC) President in 1964.[2][3][4]
He won a bronze medal in the pairs at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh[5]
He played 78 times for the Irish outdoor team and 51 times for the indoor team and was awarded an O.B.E.[6]
He won the 1950 singles title and 1949 & 1957 pairs title at the Irish National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Willowfield Bowls Club.[7]
References[]
- ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "Past Presidents | Northern Ireland Private Greens Bowling League". Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "BIBC Past Officers". British Isles Bowls Council. 2013-07-29. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "14 sept 2017 Northern Ireland Private Greens Bowling League (NIPGBL) anniversary book web version". issuu. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1991). Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
Categories:
- 1912 births
- Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland
- Bowls players at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
- British bowls biography stubs