Wayne Turley
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 November 1972 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Taren Point BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wayne William Turley OAM (born 2 November 1972) is an Australian international lawn and indoor bowler.[1]
Bowls career
[edit]In 2006 he won a gold medal in the men's triples at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He won a silver medal four years later at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.[2] [3]
In between he won a silver medal at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship. He married fellow Australian bowls international Claire Duke in 2013.[4]
He won three gold medals and one silver medal at the Asia Pacific Bowls Championships.[5]
Despite being Australian he won the 2005 fours title at the New Zealand National Bowls Championships when bowling for the Taren Point Bowls Club.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Wayne Turley profile". Bowls tawa.
- ^ "COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDALLISTS - BOWLS". GRB Athletics.
- ^ "Athletes and Results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Meet the ultimate bowls team player". Bowls Australia.
- ^ "Asia Pacific Championships Past Winners" (PDF). World Bowls. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "New Zealand Championships". Bowls Tawa.
Categories:
- Australian male bowls players
- Living people
- 1972 births
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Bowls players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games