Norman King (bowls) explained

Norman King (7 August 1914 – c. December 1997) was an English international lawn bowler.^[1]

Bowls career

King won a gold medal in the fours with Cliff Stroud, Ted Hayward and Peter Line at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.^[2]

He also won two Commonwealth Games medals; a gold in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff^[3] and another gold in the pairs with Peter Line at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.^{[4] [5] [6]}

He won the National Championship title in 1957.^{[7] [8]}

Personal life

He was an agent and salesman by trade and took up bowls in 1942 during wartime holidays.^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Norman King Profile. Bowls tawa.
2. Web site: World Bowls Champions. Burnside Bowling Club.
3. News: Splendid tribute to bowler . Peterborough Evening Telegraph . 13 February 1958 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 28 August 2024.
4. Web site: COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS. GBR Athletics.
5. News: "Empire Games Results." Times, 26 July 1958, p. 3. The Times . 26 July 1958 . 3 . Times Digital Archives.
6. News: Bowls . Cambridge Daily News . 7 February 1970 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 14 August 2024.
7. Web site: Past Records. Bowls England.
8. News: Middlesex Bowls King . Daily Herald . 24 August 1957 . British Newspaper Archive. subscription . 19 August 2024.
9. Book: Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard. the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. 1974. Robert Hale and Company. 0-7091-3658-7.