Lawn bowls at the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Lawn bowls
at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Lawn bowls ; at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Victoria Park
Dates	29 July – 6 August 2022
Competitors	227 from 24 nations
	← 2018 2026 ⊟

Lawn bowls was among the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, to be held in England. This was the twenty-first staging of lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games having featured in every Games bar 1966, and the third staging within England specifically.

The competition was scheduled to take place between 29 July and 6 August 2022, spread across eleven events (including three parasport events).^[1]^[2]

Schedule

The competition schedule was as follows:^[1]^[2]

G	Group stage	¼	Quarter-finals	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Gold medal match

Date Event	Fri 29		Sat 30		Sun 31		Mon 1					Tue 2				Wed 3			Thu 4			Fri 5				Sat 6
Session →	M	A	M	A	M	A	M			A		M		A		M	A		M	A		M		A		M		A
Men's singles												G				G			G			¼				½		B	F
Men's pairs		G		G	G	¼	½					B	F
Men's triples	G	G	G		G	¼	½	B	F
Men's fours														G			G			G		¼		½		B	F
Women's singles	G		G		G	¼	½			B	F
Women's pairs												G				G			G			¼	½			B	F
Women's triples												G					G			G	¼	½		B	F
Women's fours		G		G	G	¼	½					B	F
Parasport
Men's pairs B6–8	G		G			G	½							B	F
Women's pairs B6–8	G		G			G	½										B	F
Mixed pairs B2–3						G	G			G		G					G			½		B	F

Venue

The lawn bowls competition will be held at the Victoria Park bowling greens in Leamington Spa.^[3]^[4]

Qualification (parasport)

A total of 36 parasport bowlers (18 pairs) nominally qualify to compete at the Games.^[5]^[6] They qualify for each event as follows:

One pair from the host nation.
Five pairs (one per nation, excluding the hosts) receive a CGF / International Bowls for the Disabled (IBD) Bipartite Invitation.

Medal table

* Host nation (England)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Australia	3	3	0	6
2	Scotland	3	0	2	5
3	England*	2	2	3	7
4	Wales	1	1	1	3
5	India	1	1	0	2
5	Northern Ireland	1	1	0	2
7	Malaysia	0	1	1	2
7	South Africa	0	1	1	2
9	Guernsey	0	1	0	1
10	New Zealand	0	0	3	3
Totals (10 entries)		11	11	11	33

Medallists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Singles details	Aaron Wilson Australia	Gary Kelly Northern Ireland	Iain McLean Scotland
Pairs details	Wales Daniel Salmon Jarrad Breen	England Jamie Walker Sam Tolchard	Scotland Paul Foster Alex Marshall
Triples details	England Louis Ridout Nick Brett Jamie Chestney	Australia Barrie Lester Carl Healey Ben Twist	Wales Owain Dando Ross Owen Jonathan Tomlinson
Fours details	Northern Ireland Sam Barkley Adam McKeown Ian McClure Martin McHugh	India Sunil Bahadur Navneet Singh Chandan Kumar Singh Dinesh Kumar	England Louis Ridout Nick Brett Jamie Chestney Sam Tolchard

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Singles details	Ellen Ryan Australia	Lucy Beere Guernsey	Siti Zalina Ahmad Malaysia
Pairs details	Australia Kristina Krstic Ellen Ryan	England Amy Pharaoh Sophie Tolchard	New Zealand Katelyn Inch Selina Goddard
Triples details	England Jamie-Lea Winch Natalie Chestney Sian Honnor	Malaysia Nur Ain Nabilah Tarmizi Syafiqa Haidar Afif Abdul Rahman Azlina Arshad	New Zealand Nicole Toomey Tayla Bruce Val Smith
Fours details	India Rupa Rani Tirkey Nayanmoni Saikia Lovely Choubey Pinki Singh	South Africa Thabelo Muvhango Bridget Calitz Esme Kruger Johanna Snyman	New Zealand Selina Goddard Nicole Toomey Tayla Bruce Val Smith

Para-sport

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's pairs B6–8 details	Scotland Garry Brown Kevin Wallace	Australia Damien Delgado Chris Flavel	England Craig Bowler Kieran Rollings
Women's pairs B6–8 details	Scotland Rosemary Lenton Pauline Wilson	Australia Serena Bonnell Cheryl Lindfield	South Africa Desiree Levin Victoria van der Merwe
Mixed pairs B2–3 details	Scotland Melanie Inness George Miller Robert Barr Sarah Jane Ewing	Wales Julie Thomas Mark Adams Gordon LLewellyn John Wilson	England Alison Yearling Susan Wherry Chris Turnbull Mark Wherry

Participating nations

There were 24 participating Commonwealth Games Associations (CGA's) in lawn bowls with a total of 227 (118 men and 109 women) athletes. The number of athletes a nation entered is in parentheses beside the name of the country.^[7]

Australia (18)
Botswana (4)
Brunei (6)
Canada (10)
Cook Islands (10)
England (18)
Falkland Islands (5)
Fiji (10)
Guernsey (4)
India (10)
Jamaica (2)
Jersey (5)
Kenya (2)
Malaysia (10)
Malta (8)
Namibia (2)
New Zealand (18)
Niue (10)
Norfolk Island (10)
Northern Ireland (10)
Scotland (18)
Singapore (3)
South Africa (18)
Wales (16)

References

^ ^a ^b "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b Competition Schedule | Lawn Bowls and Para Lawn Bowls (PDF). BOCCG. pp. 25, 26. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
^ "Leamington to host Commonwealth Games bowls events in 2022". WarwickshireWorld. 21 December 2017. Archived from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
^ "Venues | VICTORIA PARK". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
^ Athlete Allocation System | Para Lawn Bowls (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / International Bowls for the Disabled. 18 November 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
^ Angus, Stevie (9 February 2021). "IBD Outdoor World Championships 2021". Disability Bowls England. Archived from the original on 22 February 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
^ "Lawn Bowls and Para Lawn Bowls Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

External links

[lbschedule-1] "Competition Schedule". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

[schedulepdf-2] Competition Schedule | Lawn Bowls and Para Lawn Bowls (PDF). BOCCG. pp. 25, 26. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

[3] "Leamington to host Commonwealth Games bowls events in 2022". WarwickshireWorld. 21 December 2017. Archived from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

[4] "Venues | VICTORIA PARK". BOCCG. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

[5] Athlete Allocation System | Para Lawn Bowls (PDF). Commonwealth Sport / International Bowls for the Disabled. 18 November 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

[6] Angus, Stevie (9 February 2021). "IBD Outdoor World Championships 2021". Disability Bowls England. Archived from the original on 22 February 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

[7] "Lawn Bowls and Para Lawn Bowls Number of Entries by CGA" (PDF). www.results.birmingham2022.com. Birmingham Organizing Committee for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 27 July 2022. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

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