Lawn Bowls at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games

Lawn Bowls
at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games
Venue Hidden Vale Sports Club
Location Clark Special Economic Zone, Angeles City, Pampanga
Start date December 1, 2005
End date December 4, 2005
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Lawn Bowls at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games took place in the Hidden Vale Sports Club in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines.

The event was held from December 1-4.

Lawn Bowls is a precision sport where the goal is to roll slightly radially asymmetrical balls (called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the "jack" or "kitty") than one's opponent is able to do. It is related to bocce and pétanque.

The game is usually played on a large, rectangular, precisely levelled and manicured grass or synthetic surface known as a bowling green, but an indoor variation on carpet is also played. In the simplest competition, singles, one of the two opponents begins a segment of the competition (in bowling parlance, an "end"), by placing the mat and rolling the jack to the other end of the green as a target. Once it has come to rest, the players take turns to roll their bowls from the mat towards the jack and thereby build up the "head". Bowls reaching the ditch are dead and removed from play, except in the event when one has "touched" the jack on its way. "Touchers" are marked with chalk and remain alive in play even though they are in the ditch. Similarly if the jack is knocked into the ditch it is still alive unless it is out of bounds to the side resulting in a "dead" end which is replayed. After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls (four each in singles), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined (the jack may have been displaced) and points are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack. For instance, if a competitor has bowled two bowls closer to the jack than their competitor's nearest, they are awarded two points. The exercise is then repeated for the next end.

Medal winners

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Singles Ronald Lising
( Philippines)
Syed Mohammad Bin Syed Akil
( Malaysia)
Sakprasert Mitsaha
( Thailand)
Men's Pairs  Malaysia
Fairul Izwan Bin Adbul Muin
Safuan Bin Said
 Philippines
Lloncio Carreon
Christopher Dagpin
 Thailand
Thira Maithai
Sudharm Phonghanyudh
Men's Triples  Brunei
PG Moh Salfh Chuchu PG HJ Tuah
Haji Naim Brahim
Lokman Mohammad Salleh
 Malaysia
Khairul Anuar Abid Kadir
Megat Mohammad Nazim Zainuddin
Mohammad Azwan Shuhaimi
 Philippines
Reynaldo Samia
Angelo Morales
Herminio Dagpin
Women's Singles Bongsin Tsao
( Thailand)
Paula Francisco
( Philippines)
Gitizalina Binti Ahmad
( Malaysia)
Women's Pairs  Malaysia
Ban Chui Mei
Haslah Binti Haji Hasan
 Thailand
Kornkamon Phonghanyudh
Vivatana Vudhadhirom
 Philippines
Vilma Ronalyn Greenlees
Amy Gardoce
Women's Triples  Malaysia
Noriryani Binti Azmi
Azlina Binti Arshad
Norhashima Binti Ismail
 Philippines
Ellenita Atkins
Asuncion Bruce
Rosita Bradborn
 Thailand
Thong Oomen
Saengjan Wareeram
Netnadha Lapchareon

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