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British lawn bowler

Dai Wilkins
Personal information
NationalityBritish (Welsh)
Born (1942-07-22) 22 July 1942 (age 82)
Sport
ClubPontrhydyfen (outdoors)
Port Talbot (indoors)
Medal record
Representing  Wales
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Kuala Lumpur fours
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Manchester fours
British Isles Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 fours

David Wilkins better known as Dai Wilkins (born 22 July 1942) is a former Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler.

Bowls career

He won two Commonwealth Games bronze medals in the fours at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.

He is a seven times Welsh National Bowls Championships winner, winning the singles in 1983 & 1996, the pairs in 1987 with his son Jeff, triples winner in 1986 & 1991 and fours winner in 2012 & 2013.

Football

He had a soccer trial with Cardiff City F.C. before playing rugby for Glynneath RFC.

References

  1. "Profile". Bowls tawa. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  2. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
  3. "Price takes singles title". South Wales Echo. 22 August 1983. Retrieved 24 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
  5. "WBA Handbook" (PDF). Welsh Bowls.
  6. Newby, Donald (1988). The Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.


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