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| Nationality | British (Scottish) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1965-05-13)13 May 1965[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Haddington BC (outdoor) Midlothian IBC (indoor) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Angus Ogilvie Blair (born 13 May 1965) is a former Scottish international lawn and indoor bowler.[2]
Biography
Blair made his international debut in 1984 [3] and won a gold medal in the fours and a bronze medal in the singles at the 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing.[4]
He won the 1986 Scottish National Bowls Championships singles crown and subsequently won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1987.[5]
Blair represented the Scottish team[1] at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand,[6] where he competed in the pairs event,[7] with Graham Robertson.[8]
He also won the national pairs in 1988 and the fours in 2001.[9]
References
- ^ a b "The glory hunters". Aberdeen Evening Express. 24 January 1990. p. 16. Retrieved 7 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Angus Blair Profile". Bowls tawa. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1991). Bowls Yearbook 91. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "World Bowls Champions". Burnside Bowling Club.
- ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council. Archived from the original on 9 November 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "Scotland Auckland 1990". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 7 January 2026.
- ^ Newby, Donald (1990). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 91. Pan Books Ltd. pp. 39–46. ISBN 0-330-31664-8.
- ^ "Bruces's golden shot". Aberdeen Evening Express. 2 February 1990. p. 1. Retrieved 7 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Anxious moments for Wood". Dundee Courier. 6 August 1988. p. 17. Retrieved 17 April 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
