Lawn bowls is an iconic Commonwealth sport which was once again part of the programme at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
Team England won a total of three bronze medals in Australia.
Team England have a strong lawn bowls pedigree with Ellen Faulkner and para-lawn bowler Paul Brown both winning medals at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Ellen Falkner is one of England's most successful lawn bowlers, having competed at five Games and won five medals.
A small ball called a ‘jack’ is rolled onto a bowling green and the aim of the game is for a player to roll their ball, called a ‘wood’ as close to the jack as possible
The closest bowls to the jack score a point, if a player has the two closest efforts then they score two until an opposition bowl is next to score
In singles, the winner is the first player to score 21 points, in pairs (two players on each team) and triples (three a side) the winner is the team with the most points after 18 ends and in fours, a winner is declared after 15 ends
At the Commonwealth Games, the competition is played in pools with the winners of each pool progressing to the knock out rounds to determine the medal winners
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John participated as a player at Victoria 1994 and Kuala Lumpur 1998. He was a team manager at Manchester 2002 and Melbourne 2006.
John was also a team director for Delhi 2010, where 11 out of the 12 lawn bowls athletes won medals.
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