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Nickname | Del Boy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British (Scottish) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Edinburgh, Scotland | 23 April 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Lawn & indoor bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | East Lothian IBC Cockenzie & Port Seton BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Highest world ranking | 46 (September 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Derek Oliver (born 1984), is a Scottish lawn and Indoor bowler. [1]
He lives in Cockenzie and plays for the East Lothian Indoor Bowls Club and the Cockenzie & Port Seton Bowls Club. [1]
In 2011, he won two medals at the European Bowls Championships in Portugal and three medals at the 2013 Championships in Spain. [2] and the Scottish National Indoor Pairs. [3] [4]
In 2016, he won the Scottish National Bowls Championships. [5]
In 2018, he was selected as part of the Scottish team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland [1] where he claimed two gold medals in the Triples with Darren Burnett and Ronnie Duncan [6] and the Fours with Alex Marshall, Duncan and Paul Foster. [7] [8]
In 2019, he won the fours gold medal and triples silver medal at the Atlantic Bowls Championships [9] and in 2020, he was selected for the 2020 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Australia but the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [10]
In 2023, he was selected as part of the team to represent Scotland at the 2023 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. [11] He participated in the men's triples and the men's fours events. [12] [13] In the triples, with Paul Foster and Alex Marshall he won the silver medal. One week later in the fours partnering Foster, Marshall and Jason Banks, the team won their group before reaching the final against Australia, where he won a second silver medal after losing 12–10.
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