World Cup Singles

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World Cup Singles[]

The World Cup Singles is an event inaugurated in 2005 that is contested annually between bowlers from national bowls organisations. The competition is seen as the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the World Indoor Bowls Championships held annually in the United Kingdom.[1]

The event was first held from 3-10 April 2005, at the Hong Kong Football Club indoor bowling green and Ap Lei Chau Sports Centre in Hong Kong[2] but now takes place every year at the Warilla Bowls Club in New South Wales, Australia.

Although players from each hemisphere are able to compete in both competitions travelling restricts the relevant entries and qualification formats. This results in the majority of the leading indoor players from the Northern hemisphere not taking part in the event.[3]

Past Winners[]

Men's singles[]

Year Winner Runner-Up
2005 Australia Mark Casey[2] Hong Kong
2006 Scotland Neil Speirs[4] Malaysia Safuan Said
2007 Australia Kelvin Kerkow[5] Australia Jeremy Henry
2008 Malaysia Safuan Said New Zealand Ali Forsyth
2009 Australia Leif Selby Malaysia Safuan Said
2010 Australia Leif Selby Australia
2011 Four Provinces Flag.svg James Talbot[6] Scotland Graeme Archer
2012 Australia Jeremy Henry Four Provinces Flag.svg James Talbot
2013 Australia Jeremy Henry[7] New Zealand Tony Grantham
2014 Australia Jeremy Henry[8] Australia
2015 Scotland Iain McLean[9] Australia David Holt
2016 Australia Jeremy Henry[10] Four Provinces Flag.svg Andrew Kyle
2017 Australia Jeremy Henry[11] Malaysia Muhammad Soufi Rusli
2018 Australia Jeremy Henry[1] Australia
2019 Four Provinces Flag.svg Gary Kelly[12] Malta Brendan Aquilina
2020 cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Women's singles[]

Year Winner Runner-Up
2005 Hong Kong Grace Chu[2] Fiji Litia Tikoisuva
2006 Canada [4] England Doreen Hankin
2007 Australia [5] South Africa Lorna Trigwell
2008 Guernsey Alison Merrien[13] New Zealand Val Smith
2009 New Zealand Jo Edwards[14] Australia Karen Murphy
2010 New Zealand Jo Edwards Australia Karen Murphy
2011 New Zealand Jo Edwards[6] Guernsey Alison Merrien
2012 Guernsey Alison Merrien New Zealand Jo Edwards
2013 New Zealand Jo Edwards[7] Guernsey Alison Merrien
2014 Scotland Caroline Brown[8] Guernsey Alison Merrien
2015 Malaysia Siti Zalina Ahmad[9] Scotland Julie Forrest
2016 Norfolk Island Carmen Anderson[10] Malaysia Siti Zalina Ahmad
2017 New Zealand Jo Edwards[11] Guernsey Lucy Beere
2018 Guernsey Lucy Beere[1] Australia Rebecca Van Asch
2019 New Zealand Jo Edwards[12] Guernsey Lucy Beere
2020 cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

See also[]

World Bowls Events

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Bowls World Cup to begin in Warilla". Inside the Games.
  2. ^ a b c "International Events". Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association.
  3. ^ "Past results" (PDF). World Bowls.com.
  4. ^ a b "Past results". The Telegraph.
  5. ^ a b "Nardella, Kerkow win world bowls titles". Sydney Morning Herald.
  6. ^ a b "Results". Irish Examiner.
  7. ^ a b "Henry Crowned Again". Bowls Australia.
  8. ^ a b "Scot conquers world en route to the Commonwealth Games". The Herald.
  9. ^ a b "2015 World Cup Singles Warilla Bowls Club, NSW, Australia, Day 9, Results". World Bowls.
  10. ^ a b "World Cup glory for Jeremy and Carmen". World Bowls.
  11. ^ a b "Edwards, Henry win fifth World Cup Bowls crown at Warilla". Bowls New Zealand.
  12. ^ a b "World Cup indoor singles – Day 9". Bowls International.
  13. ^ "Merrien conquers Indoor World Cup". BBC Sport.
  14. ^ "Jo Edwards (possibly) bows out in style". Radio NZ.
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