Simon_Skelton

Simon Skelton

Simon Skelton

Add article description

Simon Skelton is an English international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]

Quick Facts Personal information, Nationality ...

Bowls career

Simon bowls for the Nottingham indoor club and Stute outdoor bowls club.[2] During the 2002 Commonwealth Games he was part of the fours that won the gold medal with John Ottaway, Robert Newman and David Holt.[3]

In 2011 he won the mixed pairs title at the 2011 World Indoor Bowls Championship with Alison Merrien and four years later won the open pairs title with Robert Paxton.[4]

In addition to his international achievements he also won a National Championship title in 2009 representing Derbyshire and Stute BC.[5]

He reached the final of the open singles at the 2019 World Indoor Bowls Championship as a qualifier but lost to Stewart Anderson in the final.[6][7] In November 2022, he finished runner-up in the Scottish International Open, losing in the final to Stewart Anderson.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "Profile". Bowls tawa.
  2. [2]
    "Skelton Player Profile". World Bowls Tour.
  3. [3]
    "Athlete Profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  4. [4]
    "Player Profile Simon Skelton". BBC Sport.
  5. [5]
    "Past Records". Bowls England.
  6. [6]
    "World Indoor Bowls: Stewart Anderson wins second title". BBC Sport.
  7. [7]
    "Anderson claims second World Indoor title after beating Skelton in tie-break". Great Yarmouth Mercury.
  8. [8]
    "Anderson claims Scottish International Open for the second time". Daily Record. 4 November 2022. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Simon_Skelton, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.