Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games
# Lawn bowls at the Commonwealth Games

Bowls is one of the sports at the quadrennial Commonwealth Games competition. It has been a Commonwealth Games sport since the inaugural edition of the event's precursor, the 1930 British Empire Games. It is a core sport and must be included in the sporting programme of each edition of the Games; however, it was not included in the programme of the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica due to no sufficient bowling greens being available. Along with swimming, athletics, cycling, table tennis, powerlifting and triathlon, bowls is one of the EAD (Elite Athletes with a Disability) sports.

## Editions

| Games | Year | Host city | Host country | Best Nation |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| I | 1930 | Hamilton, Ontario | Canada | England |
| II | 1934 | London | England | England |
| III | 1938 | Sydney, New South Wales | Australia | New Zealand |
| IV | 1950 | Auckland | New Zealand | New Zealand |
| V | 1954 | Vancouver, British Columbia | Canada | Southern Rhodesia, South Africa |
| VI | 1958 | Cardiff | Wales | South Africa |
| VII | 1962 | Perth, Western Australia | Australia | England |
| IX | 1970 | Edinburgh | Scotland | England |
| X | 1974 | Christchurch | New Zealand | England |
| XI | 1978 | Edmonton, Alberta | Canada | Hong Kong |
| XII | 1982 | Brisbane, Queensland | Australia | Scotland |
| XIII | 1986 | Edinburgh | Scotland | Wales |
| XIV | 1990 | Auckland | New Zealand | Australia |
| XV | 1994 | Victoria, British Columbia | Canada | Scotland |
| XVI | 1998 | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | South Africa |
| XVII | 2002 | Manchester | England | England |
| XVIII | 2006 | Melbourne, Victoria | Australia | Australia |
| XIX | 2010 | Delhi | India | South Africa |
| XX | 2014 | Glasgow | Scotland | South Africa |
| XXI | 2018 | Gold Coast, Queensland | Australia | Australia |
| XXII | 2022 | Birmingham | England | Australia |

## Commonwealth champions

Commonwealth champions tabulated:

### Men's singles

| Year | Winner |
| - | - |
| 1930 | Robert Colquhoun |
| 1934 | Robert Sprot |
| 1938 | Horace Harvey |
| 1950 | James "Ham" Pirret |
| 1954 | Ralph Hodges |
| 1958 | Phineas 'Pinky' Danilowitz |
| 1962 | David Bryant (1/4) |
| 1970 | David Bryant (2/4) |
| 1974 | David Bryant (3/4) |
| 1978 | David Bryant (4/4) |
| 1982 | Willie Wood |
| Year | Winner |
| 1986 | Ian Dickison |
| 1990 | Rob Parrella |
| 1994 | Richard Corsie |
| 1998 | Roy Garden |
| 2002 | Bobby Donnelly |
| 2006 | Kelvin Kerkow |
| 2010 | Robert Weale |
| 2014 | Darren Burnett |
| 2018 | Aaron Wilson (1/2) |
| 2022 | Aaron Wilson (2/2) |

### Men's pairs

| Year | Winner |
| - | - |
| 1930 | Tommy Hills & George Wright (1/2) |
| 1934 | Tommy Hills & George Wright (2/2) |
| 1938 | Lance Macey & Walter Denison |
| 1950 | Robert Henry & Phil Exelby |
| 1954 | William Rosbotham & Percy Watson |
| 1958 | John Morris & Richard Pilkington |
| 1962 | Bob McDonald & Robbie Robson |
| 1970 | Norman King & Peter Line |
| 1974 | Jack Christie & Alex McIntosh |
| 1978 | Eric Liddell & Saco Delgado |
| 1982 | John Watson & David Gourlay Sr. |
| Year | Winner |
| 1986 | Grant Knox & George Adrain |
| 1990 | Ian Schuback & Trevor Morris |
| 1994 | Rex Johnston & Cameron Curtis |
| 1998 | Brett Duprez & Mark Jacobsen |
| 2002 | Alex Marshall (1/3) & George Sneddon |
| 2006 | Alex Marshall (2/3) & Paul Foster (1/2) |
| 2010 | Shaun Addinall & Gerry Baker |
| 2014 | Alex Marshall (3/3) & Paul Foster (2/2) |
| 2018 | Daniel Salmon (1/2) & Marc Wyatt |
| 2022 | Daniel Salmon (2/2) & Jarrad Breen |

### Men's triples

| Year | Winner |
| - | - |
| 2006 | Bill Cornehls, Mark Casey & Wayne Turley |
| 2010 | Johann du Plessis, Wayne Perry & Gidion Vermeulen |
| 2014 | Petrus Breitenbach, Prince Neluonde & Bobby Donnelly |
| 2018 | Darren Burnett, Derek Oliver & Ronnie Duncan |
| 2022 | Louis Ridout, Nick Brett & Jamie Chestney |

### Men's fours

| Year | Winner |
| - | - |
| 1930 | Ernie Gudgeon, James Edney, James Frith & Albert Hough |
| 1934 | Robert Slater, Ernie Gudgeon, Percy Tomlinson & Fred Biggin |
| 1938 | Bill Bremner, Alec Robertson, Ernie Jury & Bill Whittaker |
| 1950 | Herbert Currer, Harry Atkinson, Alfred Blumberg & Snowy Walker |
| 1954 | Frank Mitchell, George Wilson, John Anderson & Wilfred Randall |
| 1958 | Norman King, John Bettles, Walter Phillips & John Scadgell |
| 1962 | David Bryant, Les Watson, Sidney Drysdale & Tom Fleming |
| 1970 | Abdul Kitchell, Saco Delgado, George Souza Sr. & Roberto da Silva |
| 1974 | Kerry Clark, David Baldwin, John Somerville & Gordon Jolly |
| 1978 | Philip Chok, M B Hassan Jr., Omar Dallah & Roberto da Silva |
| Year | Winner |
| 1982 | Rob Dobbins, Keith Poole, Bert Sharp & Don Sherman |
| 1986 | Hafod Thomas, Jim Morgan, Robert Weale & Will Thomas |
| 1990 | Denis Love, George Adrain, Ian Bruce & Willie Wood |
| 1994 | Alan Lofthouse, Donald Piketh, Neil Burkett & Robert Rayfield |
| 1998 | Gary McCloy, Ian McClure(1/2), Martin McHugh(1/2) & Neil Booth |
| 2002 | John Ottaway, Simon Skelton, Robert Newman & David Holt |
| 2014 | Alex Marshall (1/2), Paul Foster (1/2), Neil Speirs & David Peacock |
| 2018 | Alex Marshall (2/2), Paul Foster (2/2), Derek Oliver & Ronnie Duncan |
| 2022 | Sam Barkley, Adam McKeown, Ian McClure(2/2), Martin McHugh(2/2) |

### Women's singles

| Year | Winner |
| - | - |
| 1986 | Wendy Line |
| 1990 | Geua Vada Tau |
| 1994 | Margaret Johnston |
| 1998 | Lesley Hartwell |
| 2002 | Siti Zalina Ahmad (1/2) |
| Year | Winner |
| 2006 | Siti Zalina Ahmad (2/2) |
| 2010 | Natalie Melmore |
| 2014 | Jo Edwards (1/2) |
| 2018 | Jo Edwards (2/2) |
| 2022 | Ellen Ryan |

### Women's pairs

| Year | Winner |
| - | - |
| 1986 | Margaret Johnston & Freda Elliott |
| 1990 | Judy Howat & Marie Watson |
| 1994 | Frances Whyte & Sarah Gourlay |
| 1998 | Margaret Letham & Joyce Lindores |
| 2002 | Jo Edwards & Sharon Sims |
| Year | Winner |
| 2006 | Lynsey Armitage & Karen Murphy |
| 2010 | Ellen Falkner & Amy Monkhouse |
| 2014 | Tracy-Lee Botha & Colleen Piketh |
| 2018 | Emma Firyana Saroji & Siti Zalina Ahmad |
| 2022 | Kristina Krstic & Ellen Ryan |

### Women's triples

| Year | Winner |
| - | - |
| 1982 | Flo Kennedy , Anna Bates & Margaret Mills |
| 2006 | Azlina Arshad, Nor Iryani Azmi & Nor Hashimah Ismail |
| 2010 | Tracy-Lee Botha, Susan Nel & Santjie Steyn |
| 2014 | Sophie Tolchard, Ellen Falkner & Sian Gordon (1/2) |
| 2018 | Carla Krizanic, Natasha Scott & Rebecca Van Asch |
| 2022 | Jamie-Lea Winch, Natalie Chestney & Sian Honnor (2/2) |

### Women's fours

| Year | Winner |
| - | - |
| 1986 | Linda Parker, Linda Evans, Joan Ricketts & Rita Jones |
| 1990 | Audrey Rutherford, Daphne Shaw, Dorothy Roche, Marion Stevens |
| 1994 | Anna Pretorius, Colleen Grondein, Hester Bekker (1/2), Lorna Trigwell (1/2) |
| 1998 | Loraine Victor, Trish Steyn, Hester Bekker (2/2), Lorna Trigwell (2/2) |
| Year | Winner |
| 2002 | Ellen Alexander, Shirley Page, Gill Mitchell, Carol Duckworth |
| 2014 | Esme Steyn, Santjie Steyn, Tracy-Lee Botha, Susan Nel |
| 2018 | Carla Krizanic, Kelsey Cottrell, Natasha Scott, Rebecca Van Asch |
| 2022 | Rupa Rani Tirkey, Nayanmoni Saikia, Lovely Choubey, Pinki Singh |

### Para-sport

| Year | Winner |
| - | - |
| 1994 | Robert Brand |
| Year | Winner |
| 2022 | Garry Brown and Kevin Wallace |
| Year | Winner |
| 1994 | Catherine Portas |
| 2002 | Ruth Small |
| Year | Winner |
| 2022 | Rosemary Lenton Pauline Wilson |
| Year | Winner |
| 2018 | Jake Fehlberg, Lynne Seymour |
| 2022 | Melanie Inness Robert Barr |
| Year | Winner |
| 2002 | David Heddie, Ivan Prior & John Robertson |
| 2014 | Deon Van De Vyver, Roger Hagerty & Lobban Derrick |
| 2018 | Josh Thornton, Ken Hanson & Tony Bonnell |
| Year | Winner |
| 2014 | Geoffrey Newcombe, Gyndolene Nel, Hermanus Scholtz & Annatjie van Rooyen |

## All-time Overall medal table

*Note : From editions 1994 to 2002, two bronze medals were awarded in each event.


    Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games

Overall table including All time Para-Lawn bowl medal table :

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | England | 21 | 11 | 23 | 55 |
| 2 | Scotland | 18 | 10 | 13 | 41 |
| 3 | Australia | 17 | 25 | 11 | 53 |
| 4 | South Africa | 17 | 12 | 15 | 44 |
| 5 | New Zealand | 16 | 12 | 18 | 46 |
| 6 | Wales | 5 | 11 | 15 | 31 |
| 7 | Northern Ireland | 5 | 5 | 12 | 22 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 4 | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 10 | Zimbabwe | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 11 | India | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Canada | 0 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 14 | Guernsey | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Zambia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Ireland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Namibia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Rhodesia and Nyasaland | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 19 | Fiji | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | Norfolk Island | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 21 | Botswana | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Cook Islands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Malta | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (23 entries) | Totals (23 entries) | 111 | 111 | 135 | 357 |

### Lawn Bowls All-Time Medal Table

*Note : From editions 1994 to 2002, two bronze medals were awarded in each event.


    Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | England | 20 | 11 | 19 | 50 |
| 2 | Australia | 15 | 22 | 9 | 46 |
| 3 | South Africa | 15 | 11 | 13 | 39 |
| 4 | New Zealand | 15 | 10 | 17 | 42 |
| 5 | Scotland | 13 | 9 | 11 | 33 |
| 6 | Wales | 5 | 8 | 14 | 27 |
| 7 | Northern Ireland | 5 | 5 | 12 | 22 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | Zimbabwe | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | India | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Canada | 0 | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| 14 | Guernsey | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Zambia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Ireland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Namibia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Rhodesia and Nyasaland | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 19 | Fiji | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 19 | Norfolk Island | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 21 | Botswana | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Cook Islands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21 | Malta | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (23 entries) | Totals (23 entries) | 100 | 100 | 118 | 318 |

### Para-Lawn Bowls All-time medal table

    Para-Lawns bowls appeared in editions 1994, 2002, 2014-22
    Updated after the 2022 Commonwealth Games

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Scotland | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | Australia | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | South Africa | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | New Zealand | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | England | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 6 | Wales | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Zimbabwe | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 8 | Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Canada | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 11 | 11 | 15 | 37 |
