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Nationality | Northern Irish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 6 July 1938|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Ballymena BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Samuel Barnett Allen is a Northern Irish lawn and indoor bowler and was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland on 6 July 1938.
Allen has been bowling since 1966 and has skipped a combined Ireland both indoors and outdoors. He won a Fours bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games for Northern Ireland. Allen also won a gold medal for the Triples in the 1984 World Outdoor Championships in Aberdeen and a Fours gold at the 1988 World Outdoor Championships in Auckland. [1] Further success came when he won the 1996 World Outdoor Championships Pairs Gold in Adelaide with Jeremy Henry.
He won a silver with Northern Ireland at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. [2]
Allen still plays outdoors for the Ballymena Seniors team and his other achievements include winning the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1980 [3] [4] and the 1979 Irish National Bowls Championships singles. [5] [6]