Kevin_Darling_(bowls)

Kevin Darling (bowls)

Kevin Darling (bowls)

New Zealand international lawn bowler

Kevin Robert Darling is a former New Zealand international lawn bowler.[1]

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He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 14 February 1947.

Bowls career

He won a bronze medal in the pairs and a bronze medal in the fours at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne.[2]

Ten years later he won a bronze medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in the fours with Peter Shaw, Phil Skoglund and Stewart McConnell.[3][4][5]

He won the 1988 singles title and the 1973 & 1974 pairs titles at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Balmacewen & Caversham Bowls Clubs.[6]

In 1990, Darling was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "Profile". Bowls tawa. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016.
  2. [2]
    Newby, Donald (1991). Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
  3. [3]
    ""Yesterday's Results from Auckland." Times, 3 Feb. 1990, p. 51". Times Digital Archives.
  4. [4]
    "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  5. [5]
    "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
  6. [6]
    "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
  7. [7]
    Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 116. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
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