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Peter Line (bowls)

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Peter Line
Personal information
NationalityBritish (English)
Born(1930-10-13)13 October 1930
Southampton
Sport
SportLawn bowls
ClubAtherley BC
Banister Park BC
Medal record
Representing  England
World Outdoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 1972 Worthing fours
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Johannesburg fours
Silver medal – second place 1976 Johannesburg team
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1970 Edinburgh pairs
Silver medal – second place 1974 Christchurch pairs

Peter A Line is a former English international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]

Bowls career

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World Championships

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Line won the fours gold medal with Norman King, Cliff Stroud and Ted Hayward at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.[2] Four years later, he won two more medals: a bronze medal in the fours with John C Evans, Bill Irish and Tommy Armstrong and a silver medal in the team event (Leonard Cup).

Commonwealth Games

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Line won the gold medal in the pairs with Norman King during the 1970 British Commonwealth Games[3] and four years later won a silver medal with John Evans in the 1974 British Commonwealth Games.[4][5]

National

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Line bowled for the Atherley Club and Banister Park in Southampton, Hampshire, and won the national singles title in 1961 and 1964.[6][2][7][8] In 1999, he won the national senior singles.[9]

He first played for England in 1955.

Personal life

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In 1984, he married fellow England international, Wendy Line (née Clarke).[10] and by trade he was a civil service cartographical draughtsman and joined the Banister Park Bowls Club in 1948.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Profile". Bowls TAWA.
  2. ^ a b c Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
  3. ^ "Bowls". Cambridge Daily News. 7 February 1970. Retrieved 14 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. ^ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
  5. ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
  6. ^ Bell, Harry E (1976). 3rd World Bowls Championship, South Africa 1976. J.G.Ince & Son Ltd.
  7. ^ "Hampshire Man is Bowls Champion". Portsmouth Evening News. 26 August 1961. Retrieved 19 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ "Ice-cool Line joins the bowls greats". Birmingham Daily Post. 22 August 1964. Retrieved 19 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. ^ "Not all comes to he who waits". Mid Sussex Times. 16 September 1999. Retrieved 20 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. ^ "Bowls: Mixed fortunes for family pair". The Telegraph. 26 February 2003.