Noel Graham (bowls)
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| Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 November 1968 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Lisnagarvey BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Noel Henry Graham is a Northern Irish international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Graham (born 1968) won a bronze medal in the fours at 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria and repeated the feat eight years later at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.[2][3]
In the World Championships he won gold medal in the fours with Jonathan Ross, Neil Booth and Jim Baker[4] and a silver medal with Jim Baker in the pairs during the 2004 World Outdoor Bowls Championship.[5]
In 1995, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic singles title, in addition to winning three pairs titles in 1999, 2000 and 2005.[6][7] He won the 1995 Irish National Bowls Championships singles [8] and subsequently won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1996.[9]
Graham retired from international competition in 2014.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "profile". Bowls Tawa. Archived from the original on 21 March 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
- ^ "Noel Graham profile". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games call up for Ballyclare teacher". Newtownabbey Times and East Antrim Times. 31 January 2002. Retrieved 20 November 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ ""Ireland success." Times [London, England] 7 Aug. 2004". The Times.
- ^ "Irish pair lose final". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
- ^ "HK Classic winners Men Singles". HKLBA. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "HK Classic winners Men Pairs". HKLBA. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "IBA Singles winners". Irish Bowls Association.
- ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council. 30 July 2013.
- ^ "Irish international duo Noel Graham and Neil Booth finally call it a day". News Letter.
- Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland
- Sportspeople from Belfast
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland
- Bowls World Champions
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls European Champions
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games