Robert Fulford (croquet player)

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Robert Fulford (born 1969) is a leading English croquet player who has dominated the sport since the turn of the 1990s.

[edit] Life and career

Born in Colchester, England, he started to play croquet at his local school at the age of 15. Fulford has a light attitude towards the game, often travelling from cheap hotel to the next because he only makes about £8000 a year from the sport. One tournament yielded him a lawnmower. He supplements his sporting career by working for a stone merchants in Thurrock in Essex.

Robert also coaches croquet, particularly in Australia and the Chattooga Club in North Carolina.

He has won the world championship 5 times:

  • 1990 at Hurlingham Club, England
  • 1992 in Newport, USA
  • 1994 at Carden Park, Cheshire, England
  • 1997 at Moorabinda Croquet Club, Bunbury, Western Australia
  • 2002 in Wellington, New Zealand

Fulford has also won the President’s Cup in 1989, 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2002.

[edit] World Championship Results

  • 1990: won (beat Mark Saurin +26, +24tp)
  • 1991: S/F (lost to John Walters +14otp, +26tp)
  • 1992: won (beat John Walters -5tp, +4tp, +12tp)
  • 1994: won (beat Chris Clarke 12tpo, +12tp, +18tp, +13)
  • 1995: runner-up (lost to Chris Clarke +18tp, -12tpo, +26tp, -26tp, +26)
  • 1997: won (beat Stephen Mulliner +17, -3tpo, +9otp, +11otp)
  • 2001: runner-up (lost to Reg Bamford -16tp, +17sxp, -3, +26sxp,+26qp)
  • 2002: won (beat Toby Garrison +26tp, +26tp, -17tp, +15tp)
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