Ken Wallis (bowls)
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| Nationality | Hongkonger | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1943 (age 81–82) England | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Kenneth G Wallis (born 1943) is a former Hong Kong international lawn bowler and footballer.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Wallis competed for Hong Kong in the fours tournament at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.[2]
Four years later he won a bronze medal in the singles at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada.[3] In addition he competed in the fours at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.[4]
He won two medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships.[5]
Football career
[edit]He was a member of the Hong Kong squad and played in the 1965 and 1966 Merdeka Cup.
Personal life
[edit]He moved to Hong Kong from Britain in 1962 to join the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. He married Jenny Wallis[2] and they moved to Australia when Jenny was appointed director of the Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office in Sydney.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ a b "Crocodile Smith". Cambridge Daily News. 23 January 1990. Retrieved 9 January 2025 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Hong Kong team achievements". HKLBA.
- ^ "ATHLETES & RESULTS". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Farewell to the empire: Ken Wallis, Hong Kong's last-ever Commonwealth Games medal winner, recalls Victoria 1994". South China Morning Post.
Categories:
- Hong Kong male bowls players
- Living people
- 1943 births
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Hong Kong
- Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Hong Kong men's footballers
- Hong Kong men's international footballers
- Naturalised footballers of Hong Kong