Alan Lofthouse

Alan Lofthouse is a former South African international bowler who played both the outdoor lawn game and the indoor version of bowls. His best known result came at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, where he won the gold medal in the men's fours, bowling alongside Robert Rayfield, Donald Piketh and Neil Burkett. At home he also competed at provincial level, and in November 2014 he and Geoff Perrow won the Western Province pairs title. His Commonwealth Games record is held by the Commonwealth Games Federation, which lists him among South Africa's bowls competitors. Lawn bowls is a precision sport in which players roll biased bowls toward a small target ball, and the fours is the event in which four players form one team.