Dai Wilkins

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Dai Wilkins
Personal information
NationalityWelsh
Born (1942-07-22) 22 July 1942 (age 78)
Sport
ClubPontrhydyfen (outdoors)
Port Talbot (indoors)

David 'Dai' Wilkins (born 22 July 1942) is a former Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler. [1]

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Bowls career

He won two Commonwealth Games bronze medals in the fours at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. [2]

He is a seven times Welsh National Bowls Championships winner, winning the singles in 1983 & 1996, [3] [4] the pairs in 1987 with his son Jeff, triples winner in 1986 & 1991 and fours winner in 2012 & 2013. [5]

Football

He had a soccer trial with Cardiff City F.C. before playing rugby for Glynneath RFC.

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References

  1. "Profile". Bowls tawa. Archived from the original on 2017-01-06. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  2. "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GBR Athletics.
  3. Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN   0-85112-414-3.
  4. "WBA Handbook" (PDF). Welsh Bowls.
  5. Newby, Donald (1988). The Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook. Telegraph Publications. ISBN   0-86367-220-5.