Robert Weale
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| Nationality | British (Welsh) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 April 1963 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Presteigne BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Robert Arthur Weale (born in Hereford on 3 April 1963), is a Welsh international lawn and indoor bowls player.[1] Weale is originally from Presteigne and was educated at John Beddoes School, but now lives in Hereford. In 2022, he was inducted into the Welsh Sports Hall of fame.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]Weale made his international debut in 1982. He was the youngest competitor in the 1984 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Aberdeen, where he competed in the triples event.[2]
World Titles
[edit]Weale's career-best performance came in January 2000, when he won the 2000 World Indoor Bowls Championship singles title at Potters.[3] Just a few months later, Weale won the men's fours title at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship, in April 2000.[4]
Commonwealth Games
[edit]Weale has won six Commonwealth Games medals achieved from eight successive games, a record. The achievement of winning medals over eight games is a record for a lawn bowls player and equals the record for a competitor across all sports. Weale was given the honour of carrying the Welsh flag & led the Welsh team out at the 1998 opening ceremony and he carried the Welsh flag during the 2010 closing ceremony.[5]
- 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh
- Gold Medal in the men's fours; with Jim Morgan, Hafod Thomas, and Will Thomas
- 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria
- silver medal in the men's pairs; with John Price
- 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur
- silver medal in the men's pairs; with Will Thomas
- 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester
- bronze medal in the men's singles
- 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
- silver medal in the men's singles
- 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi
- gold medal in the men's singles. Weale defeated Australian, Leif Selby
Welsh Titles
[edit]Weale won his first Welsh National Bowls Championships singles in 2000 and subsequently won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 2001.[6] He won his second Welsh singles title in 2005 before winning a third in August 2012, defeating Paul Taylor of Bridgend 21-11. He also skipped the Weale family quartet to the Welsh outdoor fours title, on eight occasions.[7] The Weale bowling family includes his three brothers (all former national champions) Brian, David and Stuart, sister-in-law Joanna Weale and daughter Rhiannon.[8]
He has also won the Welsh Indoor singles on three occasions.[2] In August 2005, he created a record by becoming the only man to hold both titles simultaneously.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Welsh Sports Hall of fame: Kevin Ratcliffe, Georgia Davies and Helen Jenkins inducted". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ a b Sullivan, Patrick (1986). Guinness Bowls Records. Guinness Superlatives Ltd. ISBN 0-85112-414-3.
- ^ "For the Record, Times [London, England] 24 Jan 2000". The Times. 24 January 2000. p. 47.
- ^ "World Bowls Championships" (PDF). worldbowls.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ "Robert Weale". Commonwealth Games Federation. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ "Previous Winners". British Isles Bowls Council. 30 July 2013.
- ^ "WBA Handbook" (PDF). Welsh Bowls.
- ^ "Presteigne Bowling Club Honours". Presteigne Bowling Club.
- Living people
- 1963 births
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Wales
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Wales
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales
- Bowls players at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Hereford
- People from Presteigne
- Sportspeople from Powys
- Welsh male bowls players
- People educated at John Beddoes School
- Indoor Bowls World Champions
- Medallists at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games