Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games

Bowls is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It has been a Commonwealth Games sport since the inaugural edition of the event's precursor, the 1930 British Empire Games. It is a core sport and must be included in the sporting programme of each edition of the Games. It was not included in the programme of the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica due to no sufficient bowling greens being available.

Editions

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Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Best Nation
I	1930	Hamilton, Ontario	Canada	England
II	1934	London	England	England
III	1938	Sydney, New South Wales	Australia	New Zealand
IV	1950	Auckland	New Zealand	New Zealand
V	1954	Vancouver, British Columbia	Canada	Southern Rhodesia,  South Africa
VI	1958	Cardiff	Wales	South Africa
VII	1962	Perth, Western Australia	Australia	England
IX	1970	Edinburgh	Scotland	England
X	1974	Christchurch	New Zealand	England
XI	1978	Edmonton, Alberta	Canada	Hong Kong
XII	1982	Brisbane, Queensland	Australia	Scotland
XIII	1986	Edinburgh	Scotland	Wales
XIV	1990	Auckland	New Zealand	Australia
XV	1994	Victoria, British Columbia	Canada	Scotland
XVI	1998	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	South Africa
XVII	2002	Manchester	England	England
XVIII	2006	Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	Australia
XIX	2010	Delhi	India	South Africa
XX	2014	Glasgow	Scotland	South Africa
XXI	2018	Gold Coast, Queensland	Australia

Commonwealth Champions

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Men's Singles

Year Winner 1930 Robert Colquhoun 1934 Robert Sprot 1938 Horace Harvey 1950 James ' Ham' Pirrett 1954 Ralph Hodges 1958 Phineas 'Pinky' Danilowitz 1962 David Bryant (1/4) 1970 David Bryant (2/4) 1974 David Bryant (3/4) 1978 David Bryant (4/4)

Year Winner 1982 Willie Wood 1986 Ian Dickison 1990 Rob Parella 1994 Richard Corsie 1998 Roy Garden 2002 Robert Donnelly 2006 Kelvin Kerkow 2010 Robert Weale 2014 Darren Burnett 2018

Men's Pairs

Year Winner 1930 Tommy Hills & George Wright (1/2) 1934 Tommy Hills & George Wright (2/2) 1938 Lance Macey & Walter Denison 1950 Robert Henry & Phil Exelby 1954 William Ramsbotham & Percy Watson 1958 John Morris & Richard Pilkington 1962 Bob McDonald & Hugh Robson 1970 Norman King & Peter Line 1974 John 'Jack' Christie & Alex McIntosh 1978 Eric Liddell & CC 'Saco' Delgado

Year Winner 1982 John Watson & David Gourlay Sr. 1986 Grant Knox & George Adrain 1990 Ian Schuback & Trevor Morris 1994 Rex Johnston & Cameron Curtis 1998 Brett Duprez & Mark Jacobsen 2002 Alex Marshall (1/3) & George Sneddon 2006 Alex Marshall (2/3) & Paul Foster (1/2) 2010 Shaun Addinall & Gerry Baker 2014 Alex Marshall (3/3) & Paul Foster (2/2) 2018

Men's Triples

Year Winner 2006 Bill Cornehls , Mark Casey & Wayne Turley 2010 Johann du Plessis , Wayne Perry & Gidion Vermuelen 2014 Petrus Breitenbach , Prince Neluonde & Bobby Donnelly 2018

Men's Fours

Year Winner 1930 Ernie Gudgeon, James Edney, Jack Frith & Albert Hough 1934 Robert Slater, Ernie Gudgeon, Percy Tomlinson & Fred Biggin 1938 Bill Bremner, Alec Robertson, Ernie Jury & Bill Whittaker 1950 H Currer, Harry Atkinson, Alfred Blumberg & Norman Walker 1954 Frank Mitchell, George Wilson, John Anderson & Wilfred Randall 1958 Norman King, John Bettles, Walter Phillips & George Scadgell 1962 David Bryant, John Watson, Sidney Drysdale & George Fleming 1970 Abdul Kitchell, CC (Saco) Delgado, George Souza Sr. & Roberto da Silva 1974 Kerry Clark, David Baldwin, John Somerville & Gordon Jolly 1978 Philip Chok, Majid Bin Hassan Jr., Omar Dallah & Roberto da Silva 1982 Robbie Dobbins, Keith Poole, Bert Sharp & Don Sherman 1986 Hofod Thomas, James Morgan, Robert Weale & William Thomas 1990 Denis Love, George Adrain, Ian Bruce & Willie Wood 1994 Alan Lofthouse, Donald Piketh, Neil Burkett & Robert Rayfield 1998 Gary McCloy, Ian McClure, Martin McHugh & Neil Booth 2002 John Ottaway, Simon Skelton, Robert Newman & David Holt 2014 Alex Marshall, Paul Foster, Neil Speirs & David Peacock 2018

Women's Singles

Year Winner 1986 Wendy Line 1990 Geua Vada Tau 1994 Margaret Johnston 1998 Lesley Hartwell 2002 Siti Zalina Ahmad (1/2) 2006 Siti Zalina Ahmad (2/2) 2010 Natalie Melmore 2014 Jo Edwards 2018

Women's Pairs

Year Winner 1986 Margaret Johnston & Freda Elliot 1990 Judy Howat & Marie Watson 1994 Frances Whyte & Sarah Gourlay 1998 Margaret Letham & Joyce Lindores 2002 Jo Edwards & Sharon Sims 2006 Lynsey Armitage & Karen Murphy 2010 Ellen Falkner & Amy Monkhouse 2014 Tracy-Lee Botha & Colleen Piketh 2018

Women's Triples

Year Winner 1982 Florence Kennedy , Anna Bates & Margaret Mills 2006 Arshad Azlina , Nor Iryani Azmi & Nor Hasimah Ismail 2010 Tracy-Lee Botha , Susan Nel & Santjie Steyn 2014 Sophie Tolchard , Ellen Falkner & Sian Gordon 2018

Women's Fours

Year Winner 1986 Linda Parker, Linda Evans, Joan Ricketts & Rita Jones 1990 Audrey Rutherford, Daphne Shaw, Dorothy Roche, Marion Stevens 1994 Anna Pretorius, Colleen Grondein, Hester Bekker (1/2), Lorna Trigwell (1/2) 1998 Lorraine Victor, Trish Steyn, Hester Bekker (2/2), Lorna Trigwell (2/2) 2002 Ellen Alexander, Shirley Page, Gill Mitchell, Carol Duckworth 2014 Esme Steyn, Santjie Steyn, Tracy-Lee Botha, Susan Nel 2018

All-time medal table

Updated after the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	England	19	9	17	45
2	South Africa	17	8	12	37
3	Scotland	16	8	8	32
4	New Zealand	12	11	15	38
5	Australia	9	20	11	40
6	Northern Ireland	4	5	11	20
7	Wales	3	9	13	25
8	Malaysia	3	4	6	13
9	Hong Kong	3	2	4	9
10	Zimbabwe	3	1	7	11
11	Papua New Guinea	1	1	0	2
12	Canada	0	9	3	12
13	Guernsey	0	1	0	1
	Namibia	0	1	0	1
	Zambia	0	1	0	1
16	Fiji	0	0	2	2
17	Botswana	0	0	1	1
	Norfolk Island	0	0	1	1
Total		90	90	111	291

References

External links

• Commonwealth Games sport index