Mark McMahon (bowls)

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Mark McMahon
Personal information
Born1970
Scotland
Medal record
Representing Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg Hong Kong
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1990 Auckland Men's singles
Asia Pacific Bowls Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1989 Suvapairs
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1989 Suvafours
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1991 Kowloonpairs
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg1993 Victoriapairs
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1993 Victoriafours
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2001 Great Yarmouth Men's pairs

Mark McMahon is a Scottish born indoor and lawn bowls player, who has represented England, Hong Kong and Australia at international level. [1]

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Bowls

Outdoors

He has had a nomadic career being born in Scotland but representing Hong Kong until 1995 and then England and Australia at international level. He represented Hong Kong at three Commonwealth Games in 1986, 1990 [2] and 1994 with his greatest achievement being a silver medal in the singles at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. [3] [4]

He won five medals at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships representing Hong Kong, they were four silver medals and one bronze medal from 1989 to 1993. [5] In 1988, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title. [6]

Indoors

He has competed at the World indoor Championships since 1989 and has reached a career best seeding of three and we won the 2001 World Indoor Bowls Championship pairs title in Great Yarmouth with bowls partner Les Gillett. [7] [8]

Family

Both of his parents Bill McMahon and Rosemary McMahon were international bowlers. [9] [2]

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References

  1. "Bowls: McMahon penalised". The Telegraph. 25 January 2002.
  2. 1 2 "Crocodile Smith" . Cambridge Daily News. 23 January 1990. Retrieved 9 January 2025 via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  4. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
  5. "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  6. "HK Classic winners Men Pairs". HKLBA. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  7. "Bowls pair slam crowd's "ignorance"". BBC Sport. 28 January 2001.
  8. "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
  9. "Marksmen find range". South China Morning Post. 27 August 1994. Retrieved 1 June 2021.