Wales’ B2.3 VI Mixed Pairs
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Meet the Team – Wales’ Para Triples
Meet the Team – Wales’ Para Triples
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Commonwealth Selection for Lawn Bowls
Commonwealth Games Wales have today revealed the latest tranche of athletes selected to compete at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. 93 athletes have been announced across 11 sports, following nomination by the national governing bodies and selection ratification by the Commonwealth Games Wales Board. They join the 31 athletes already confirmed for weightlifting and para-sports, as announced last year. This brings the Team Wales athlete total up to 124, with final selections for the remaining sports expected in the coming weeks. BowlsWales is delighted that 10 of the athletes announced today are bowlers, who will join the 5 para
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Winning ways for Welsh Juniors
Top juniors decended on Newport Indoor Bowls Club last week for the World Indoor Bowls Council’s World under 25 Championships. The three day event saw top players from Wales, Scotland, Ireland, England, Isle of Man, Gurnsey and Canada vying it out for the three titles up for grabs. It was a stunning campaign for the Welsh U25’s with Wales featuring in all finals and winning two of the three titles. Amy Williams’ title triumph came courstey of a 8-2, 5-4 win over current World indoor Champion Chloe Watson (Ireland). Amy had impressive straight set victories in the opening stages and
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Team Wales Para-Sport Selections Announced For Cycling, Bowls and Table Tennis
Commonwealth Games Wales have today revealed the names of seven Welsh athletes selected to compete for Team Wales in three of the para-sports featured at next year’s Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. The latest 2018 Team Wales athletes to be confirmed will be competing in para-cycling, para-lawn bowls and para-table tennis. The Welsh para-athletics squad was announced earlier this week. Double gold winner at this year’s World Championships in Los Angeles, and ranked second in the world, James Ball will represent Wales in the men’s blind and visually impaired cycling event. Competing in para lawn bowls will be Julie
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Newport hosts World Bowls Competition
Wales has hosted many great sporting events and the City of Newport will be adding to that emphatic list when the Newport Indoor Bowls Centre plays host to the World Indoor Bowls Council Championships in December 2017. The championship will see seven countries including top players from Wales vying for the titles up for grabs which includes World Junior Men’s and Ladies Singles and Mixed Triples Championships. Jordan Davies, Ffion Jones, Seren Jones, Ross Owen, Daniel Salmon and Amy Williams will all be competing during this 3-day festival of bowls, which promises to deliver some top-class competition and exciting play.
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Success Down Under for Daniels and Kingdon
World Singles Champion of Champions Laura Daniels has been crowned world singles champion of champions after a week of high quality bowling at Sydney’s palatial St Johns Park Bowls Club. Daniels had an impressive round-robin topping the group stages for the first four days, qualifying for the playoffs against South Africa’s Nici Neal and winning two straight sets. Daniels’ outstanding form continued into the semi-finals where she faced New Zealand’s Selina Goddard winning 8 – 2, 11 – 2 setting her up for the World Singles Champion of Champions Final. In a brilliant final played in damp trying conditions, Laura
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Team Wales win Gold on Channel Islands
Wales’ Bethan Russ, Chris Klefenz, Emma Gittins and Chris Ashman struck gold at the 11th European Championships. The quartet claimed the mixed fours title over Ireland and Scotland in an impressive fashion dropping just one set during the 6 day competition. Held every two years, this year’s Championships took place at the Les Creux Bowls Club, Jersey with players from 16 Nations from across Europe competing. The format of the competition includes 3 disciplines; Mixed Rinks, Men’s Pairs and Women’s Pairs all played in a group set-up. After a busy week on the greens the men’s and women’s pairs finished
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