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Born | Elgin, Moray | 27 December 1980|||||||||||||||||
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Sport | indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Elgin (indoors) | |||||||||||||||||
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Highest world ranking | 20 (March 2025) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Michael Stepney (born 1980) is a Scottish indoor bowler. [1] He reached a career high ranking of world number 20 in March 2025. [2]
He won the Scottish National Singles Championship in 2009 and the British Isles Singles Championship the following year. [1] In 2017, he finished runner-up in the Scottish International Open, losing out to David Gourlay. This helped him break into the WBT top 16 during 2018. [3] [4]
In 2022, Stepney won the men's singles gold medal at the inaugural World Bowls Indoor Championships, defeating Stewart Anderson in the final. [5]
Playing with Jason Banks, Stepney won the open pairs title at the 2025 World Indoor Bowls Championship, defeating Jason Greenslade and Robert Paxton in the final. [6]