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| Nationality | Scottish / Welsh | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1920-02-16)16 February 1920 Hawick, Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | February 2000 (aged 80) Glamorgan, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Rhiwbina BC | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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John Dawson Hedley Thompson (16 February 1920 – February 2000) was a Scottish-born Welsh international lawn bowler[1][2] who won a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Biography
Introduced to bowls by his father in 1938 and moved to Wales at the end of World War II. Thompson was a Welsh international from 1961 to 1973 and captain from 1966 to 1968. Thompson bowled for and captained Wales in the 1966 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in New South Wales, Australia.[3]
Thompson won the 1965 fours title and 1982 pairs title at the British Isles Bowls Championships and the Welsh National Bowls Championships, when bowling for the Rhiwbina Bowls Club.[4]
Thompson was a civil servant by trade represented the Welsh team at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand,[5] where he competed in the pairs event, with Ellis Stanbury.[6].[7]
Four years later he won a bronze medal in the men's fours at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton with Ellis Stanbury, Gwyn Evans and Ian Sutherland.[8]
Thompson died in Glamorgan in February 2000, at the age of 80.[9]
References
- ^ Newby, Donald (1987). Daily Telegraph Bowls Yearbook 88. Telegraph Publications. ISBN 0-86367-220-5.
- ^ "Profile". Bowls Tawa.
- ^ Ampol Petroleum Ltd (1966). First World Bowls Championship Pre ISBN. Public Relations Dept, Ampol Petroleum Ltd, Sydney, Australia.
- ^ Hawkes/Lindley, Ken/Gerard (1974). the Encyclopaedia of Bowls. Robert Hale and Company. ISBN 0-7091-3658-7.
- ^ "Wales Christchurch 1974". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
- ^ Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 82. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- ^ "It's great here -bowling kings". Belfast Telegraph. 30 June 1973. p. 18. Retrieved 2 January 2026 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "John Dawson H Thomson". England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916–2007. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
