Norman Snowy Walker
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| Nationality |  South Africa  Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 22, 1901 Dundee, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | September 3, 1977 (aged 76) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Pretoria West BC and Northern Transvaal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Norman Stewart 'Snowy' Walker (1901 – 1977) was a South African international lawn bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Walker who was born is Dundee in Scotland won three medals at the Commonwealth Games. In 1938 he won a rinks (fours) silver followed by the gold medal in the fours at the 1950 British Empire Games and in 1958 he won another silver medal in the fours at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.[2][3]
He competed in the first World Bowls Championship in Kyeemagh, New South Wales, Australia in 1966 [4] and won a silver medal in the pairs with Tommy Press at the event.[5]
He won the 1954 singles and two rinks titles at the National Championships bowling for the Pretoria West Bowls Club.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Bowls tawa. Archived from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ ""Empire Games Results." Times, 26 July 1958, p. 3". Times Digital Archives.
- ^ Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
- ^ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ^ Bolsover, Godfrey (1959). Who's Who and Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Rowland Publishers Ltd (Pre isbn).
Categories:
- South African male bowls players
- Scottish male bowls players
- British emigrants to South Africa
- Sportspeople from Dundee
- 1901 births
- 1977 deaths
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for South Africa
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for South Africa
- Bowls players at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Bowls players at the 1950 British Empire Games
- Bowls players at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games
- Medallists at the 1950 British Empire Games
- Medallists at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- 20th-century Scottish sportsmen