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Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 1931 Sydney | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 4 April 2014, aged 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Ryde BC | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Peter Alan Rheuben (1931-2014) was an Australian international lawn bowler.
Bowls career
World Championship
Rheuben won the pairs gold medal at the 1980 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Frankston, Victoria with bowls partner Alf Sandercock. He also won a silver medal in the team event (Leonard Trophy).
Commonwealth Games
Rheuben represented Australia at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand and the 1982 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal in the pairs with Denis Dalton.
Personal life
He was a company director by trade and also represented Eastwood Rugby Club and New South Wales in rugby union against the British Lions in 1953.
Awards
He was inducted into the Australian Hall of Fame.
References
- Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
- ""Bowls." Times [London, England] 25 Jan. 1980". The Times.
- "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- Warters, Bob (1984). Fifth World Bowls Championship Official Souvenir. Key Publishing Ltd.
- "Hall of Fame". Bowls Australia.
- Australian male bowls players
- Australian rugby union players
- Bowls World Champions
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- 1931 births
- 2014 deaths
- Bowls players at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Sydney
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- Eastwood Rugby Club players
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen