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| Nationality | British (Northern Irish) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn and indoor bowls | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Belmont BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Davy Hamilton is a former international lawn bowler from Northern Ireland who competed at the Commonwealth Games.
Biography
Hamilton was a member of the Belmont Bowls Club[1] and represented the combined Ireland team at international level.[2] Indoors, Hamilton skipped the Belmont four that won the 1984 national championships and subsequently represented Ireland at the 1985 British Isles Bowls Championships.[3]
Hamilton represented the Northern Irish team at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland,[4] where he competed in the pairs event with Rodney McCutcheon.[5]
In July 1988 he reached the final of both the singles and pairs at the City of Belfast championships[6] and in September 1988 won both the singles and pairs at the Ballymena BC Championships.[7]
He was the champion of Ireland two times at the Irish National Bowls Championships,[8] winning the triples in 1996 and the fours in 2003[9] and subsequently qualified to represent Ireland at the British Isles Bowls Championships, where they won the triples title in 1997.[10]
References
- ^ "Foundation". Ballymena Weekly Telegraph. 16 May 1990. p. 46. Retrieved 6 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "H/Kong trip". Ireland's Saturday Night. 22 June 1985. p. 11. Retrieved 6 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Top Class Games AT Dundee". Belfast News-Letter. 24 January 1985. p. 32. Retrieved 6 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Northern Ireland Edinburgh 1986". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 21 September 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 82. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- ^ "Hamilton Looking Ready To Make Bowling history". Ireland's Saturday Night. 23 July 1988. p. 2. Retrieved 6 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Double delight for Davy in bowling finals". Ballymena Weekly Telegraph. 14 September 1988. p. 37. Retrieved 6 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. pp. 46–47. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- ^ "Previous Winners". Irish Bowling Association. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
- ^ "History". British Isles Council. Archived from the original on 9 November 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2026.
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