Peter Line | |
Nationality: | British (English) |
Birth Date: | 1930 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Southampton |
Sport: | Lawn bowls |
Club: | Atherley BC Banister Park BC |
Peter A Line is a former English international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
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).
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]
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.
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]