Ray Pearse

Ray Pearse

Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1984-07-25) 25 July 1984 (age 40)
Occupation	bowls coach
Sport
Sport	Bowls
Club	Taren Point
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking	11 (September 2024)
Medal record Representing  Australia WB Indoor Championships 2024 Guernsey mixed pairs Asia Pacific Bowls Championships 2015 Christchurch pairs 2015 Christchurch fours 2019 Gold Coast singles 2019 Gold Coast pairs

Ray Pearse (born 25 July 1984) is an international Australian lawn bowler.[1]

Bowls career

Pearse has won four medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships, a silver medal and bronze medal in 2015 and a bronze in the singles and a silver in the pairs with Nathan Rice at the 2019 Asia Pacific Bowls Championships in the Gold Coast, Queensland.[2][3]

Pearse won the 2018 Australian National Bowls Championships and also won the NSW Champion of Club Champions Singles and NSW State Singles titles in 2018.[4]

In 2021, he won his second Australian Open crown, this time in the pairs.[5]

Together with Samantha Atkinson, he won the pairs title at the 2024 World Bowls Indoor Championships, held at the Guernsey Indoor Bowling Association.[6][7] The success in 2024 continued when Pearse won the Australian Open fours title with Peter Taylor, Gary Kelly and Carl Healey, it was Pearse's third Australian Open title.[8]

References

1. "profile". Bowls Australia.
2. "Results Portal". Bowls Australia.
3. "Asia Pacific Bowls Championships set to begin in Gold Coast with 18 countries represented". Inside the Games.
4. "Commonwealth Games: Scotland beat Australia to win gold in bowls men's triple final" (PDF). BBC Sport.
5. "Honour Roll". Bowls Australia. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
6. "Day 7 Wrap: World Bowls And IIBC Indoor Championships". World Bowls International. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
7. "Day 6 Wrap: World Bowls And IIBC Indoor Championships". World Bowls International. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
8. "Day 13 recap". Bowls Australia. Retrieved 28 June 2024.