Willie McQueen (bowls)

Willie McQueen
Personal information
Nationality Scotland
Sport
SportBowls
ClubDalserf BC
Blantyre Miners’ Welfare IBC
Medal record
Representing  Scotland
World Outdoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 1980 Melbourne triples
Silver medal – second place 1980 Melbourne fours
Bronze medal – third place 1980 Melbourne fours

Willie McQueen was a Scottish international lawn and indoor and indoor bowler.[1]

Bowls career

He won a silver medal in the triples, a silver medal in the fours and a bronze medal in the team event (Leonard Trophy) at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Melbourne.[2] He was capped 69 times outdoors for Scotland from 1967 until 1989.[3]

Awards

McQueen bowled indoors for the Blantyre Miners’ Welfare Indoor Bowling Club and was posthumously inducted into the Scottish Indoor Bowls Hall of Fame in 2016.[4]

He was given the nickname 'Machine McQueen' by the legendary David Bryant due to his resilience on the bowling greens.

References

  1. ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa.
  2. ^ Newby, Donald (1991). Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
  3. ^ "Seven sacrificed in bid to stop rot". The Herald.
  4. ^ "Blantyre Miners' Welfare Indoor Bowling receive top honours". Daily Record.


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