Norman King (bowls)

Norman King

Personal information
Nationality	British (English)
Born	(1914-08-07)7 August 1914 Sunderland, England
Died	c. December 1997 (aged 83) Bedford, England
Sport
Sport	Lawn bowls
Club	Mansfield Parliament Hill
Medal record Representing World Outdoor Championships 1972 Worthing fours Commonwealth Games 1958 Cardiff fours 1970 Edinburgh pairs

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]

References

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