World Cup Singles

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World Cup Singles
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SportBowls
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Established2005
Defunct2019
Administrator(s) World Bowls

World Cup Singles

The World Cup Singles was an event inaugurated in 2005 by the organisation known as World Bowls and was held until 2019. It was contested annually between bowlers from national bowls organisations. The competition was seen as the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the World Indoor Bowls Championships held annually in the United Kingdom and organised by the World Bowls Tour. [1]

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The event was first held from 3-10 April 2005, at the Hong Kong Football Club indoor bowling green and Ap Lei Chau Sports Centre in Hong Kong [2] but eventually took place every year at the Warilla Bowls Club in New South Wales, Australia.

Although players from both hemispheres were able to compete, travelling restricted the entries and the majority of the leading indoor players from the Northern hemisphere did not take part. [3]

In 2019, World Bowls came to an agreement with the International Indoor Bowls Council (IIBC), formerly the WIBC. The agreement was to merge their two international indoor championships, the World Cup Singles and the IIBC Championships. The new event would be called the World Bowls Indoor Championships. [4] [5]

Past Winners

Men's singles

YearWinnerRunner-Up
2005 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mark Casey [2] Flag of Hong Kong.svg Terence Lee
2006 Flag of Scotland.svg Neil Speirs [6] Flag of Malaysia.svg Safuan Said
2007 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kelvin Kerkow [7] Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jeremy Henry
2008 Flag of Malaysia.svg Safuan Said Flag of New Zealand.svg Ali Forsyth
2009 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Leif Selby Flag of Malaysia.svg Safuan Said
2010 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Leif Selby Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anthony Kiepe
2011 Four Provinces Flag.svg James Talbot [8] Flag of Scotland.svg Graeme Archer
2012 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jeremy Henry Four Provinces Flag.svg James Talbot
2013 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jeremy Henry [9] Flag of New Zealand.svg Tony Grantham
2014 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jeremy Henry [10] Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tony Wood
2015 Flag of Scotland.svg Iain McLean [11] Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Holt
2016 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jeremy Henry [12] Four Provinces Flag.svg Andrew Kyle
2017 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jeremy Henry [13] Flag of Malaysia.svg Muhammad Soufi Rusli
2018 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jeremy Henry [1] Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Ferguson
2019 Four Provinces Flag.svg Gary Kelly [14] Flag of Malta.svg Brendan Aquilina

Women's singles

YearWinnerRunner-Up
2005 Flag of Hong Kong.svg Grace Chu [2] Flag of Fiji.svg Litia Tikoisuva
2006 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Shirley Choy [6] Flag of England.svg Doreen Hankin
2007 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Judy Nardella [7] Flag of South Africa.svg Lorna Trigwell
2008 Flag of Guernsey.svg Alison Merrien [15] Flag of New Zealand.svg Val Smith
2009 Flag of New Zealand.svg Jo Edwards [16] Flag of Australia (converted).svg Karen Murphy
2010 Flag of New Zealand.svg Jo Edwards Flag of Australia (converted).svg Karen Murphy
2011 Flag of New Zealand.svg Jo Edwards [8] Flag of Guernsey.svg Alison Merrien
2012 Flag of Guernsey.svg Alison Merrien Flag of New Zealand.svg Jo Edwards
2013 Flag of New Zealand.svg Jo Edwards [9] Flag of Guernsey.svg Alison Merrien
2014 Flag of Scotland.svg Caroline Brown [10] Flag of Guernsey.svg Alison Merrien
2015 Flag of Malaysia.svg Siti Zalina Ahmad [11] Flag of Scotland.svg Julie Forrest
2016 Flag of Norfolk Island.svg Carmen Anderson [12] Flag of Malaysia.svg Siti Zalina Ahmad
2017 Flag of New Zealand.svg Jo Edwards [13] Flag of Guernsey.svg Lucy Beere
2018 Flag of Guernsey.svg Lucy Beere [1] Flag of Australia (converted).svg Rebecca Van Asch
2019 Flag of New Zealand.svg Jo Edwards [14] Flag of Guernsey.svg Lucy Beere

See also

World Bowls Events

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  4. ↑ "Preview a new World Championship" (PDF). Bristol Indoor Bowls. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  5. ↑ "World Bowls Indoor Championships". World Bowls. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
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  7. 1 2 "Nardella, Kerkow win world bowls titles". Sydney Morning Herald.
  8. 1 2 "Results". Irish Examiner.
  9. 1 2 "Henry Crowned Again". Bowls Australia.
  10. 1 2 "Scot conquers world en route to the Commonwealth Games". The Herald.
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  12. 1 2 "World Cup glory for Jeremy and Carmen". World Bowls.
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  16. ↑ "Jo Edwards (possibly) bows out in style". Radio NZ.
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