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Nationality | Welsh | ||||||||||||||
Born | Swansea | January 12, 1890||||||||||||||
Died | 24 March 1973 83) Radnorshire | (aged||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||
Club | Swansea BC Llandrindod Wells BC | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stanley James Weaver (1890-1973), was a Welsh lawn bowls international who competed in the 1934 British Empire Games. [1] [2]
At the 1934 British Empire Games he won the bronze medal in the pairs event with Thomas Davies. [3] [4]
He bowled for the Swansea and Llandrindod Wells Bowls Clubs. [5] He was a Welsh representative from 1927-1935 and was Welsh national champion on five occasions winning the singles in 1932, [6] the pairs in 1934 and the rinks in 1925, 1927 & 1933. [1] [7]
He was a building contractor by trade and married Elizabeth Charles in 1923. [1]
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