William Tate (bowls)

William Tate

Personal information
Nationality	Northern Irish
Born	(1918-01-07)7 January 1918 Belfast
Died	5 March 1977 (aged 59)[1] Forster Green Hospital, Belfast
Sport
Club	Bangor BC
Medal record Representing  Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games 1970 Edinburgh fours British Isles Championships 1964 singles

William Tate (1918–1977) was an Irish international lawn bowler.[2][3]

Bowls career

He won a bronze medal in the fours, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh; alongside John Higgins, Harold Stevenson and Edward Gordon. Four years later, he represented Northern Ireland for a second successive Commonwealth Games in 1974.[4]

He was also part of the fours team that missed out on a medal at the 1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, when a combined Ireland team finished in fourth place in the fours competition.

He won the 1963 Irish National Bowls Championships singles [5] and won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1964.[6][7]

References

1. "Billy Tate, there'll never be another". Belfast Telegraph. 7 March 1977. p. 20. Retrieved 4 June 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
2. "profile". Bowls tawa.
3. "Commonwealth Games Medallists". GBR Athletics.
4. "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
5. "IBA Singles winners". Irish Bowls Association.
6. "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council.
7. Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.