1980 World Indoor Bowls Championship

World Indoor Championships 1980
2nd World Indoor Bowls Championships
Location Scotland Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire
Date(s) 25 February - 02 March, 1980.
Category World Indoor Championships
 1979 1981 


The 1980 Embassy World Indoor Bowls Championship [1] was held at the Coatbridge indoor bowling club, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, from 25 Feb - 2 Mar 1980.[2]
David Bryant won his second consecutive title beating Philip Chok in the final.


Draw & Results

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Mens Singles

1st Round - Group Stages

Group A Results
Bryant 21 Greer 13
Bryant 21 Yates 14
Bryant 12 Jones 21
Bryant 21 Windsor ?
Windsor 16 Greer 21
Windsor 21 Yates 6
Windsor 21 Jones 3
Greer ? Yates ?
Greer 13 Jones 21
Yates 21 Jones 10

Pos Player P W
1 England David Bryant 4 3
2 England Alan Windsor 4 2
3 Canada Ron Jones 4 2
4 Australia Jim Yates 4 1
5 Republic of Ireland Jim Greer 4 1

Group B Results
Chok 21 Watson 19
Chok 21 Hindmarsh ?
Chok 21 MacWilliams 7
Chok 21 Mears 8
Watson 21 Hindmarsh 2
Watson 21 MacWilliams 2
Watson 21 Mears ?
Hindmarsh 21 MacWilliams 2
Hindmarsh 21 Mears 20
MacWilliams 21 Mears 17

Pos Player P W
1 Hong Kong Philip Chok 4 4
2 Scotland John Watson 4 3
3 Wales George Hindmarsh 4 2
4 United States Bert MacWilliams 4 1
5 New Zealand John Mears 4 0

Medal round

Semi-finals Gold medal match
 England David Bryant  21  
 Scotland John Watson  16  
 
     England David Bryant  21
   Hong Kong Philip Chok  15
Third place
 Hong Kong Philip Chok  21  England Alan Windsor  21
 England Alan Windsor  14    Scotland John Watson  8


References

  1. "World Bowls Tour". World Bowls Tour.
  2. "Google news archives". Google.
  3. "Times archives". The Times.
  4. "Google archives". Google.

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